Programme Gold Sponsors:

Sunday, 2 November
Sightseeing tour
(optional and separately bookable at cost - subject to availability and minimum group size of 10 attendees)
09:00 12:00 Paris City Tour
Monday, 3 November
09:00 12:30 Gas treating simulation in partnership with Optimised Gas Treating
09:00 12:30 Project delivery secrets from a contractor: Planning and execution
success and claims prevention in partnership with SNC Lavalin
14:00 18:00 Ensuring premium quality sulphur reaches the end user safely and
efficiently in partnership with Sandvik
14:00 18:00 Innovating to Zero Zero SO2 emissions approaches and
challenges in partnership with DuPont MECS
13:00 20:00 Registration desk open sponsored by Haldor Topse A/S
15:00 20:00 Exhibition open
18:30 20:00 Oxbow Welcome Reception
Tuesday, 4 November
07:00 18:00 Registration desk open sponsored by Haldor Topse A/S
07:30 08:45 Solvadis Champagne Breakfast
08:45 18:00 Exhibition open
09:00 10:30 Commercial programme
10:30 11:00 Refreshment break sponsored by BASF
11:00 12:30 Commercial programme
12:30 14:00 Lunch
14:00 15:30 Commercial programme
15:30 16:00 Refreshment break sponsored by BASF
16:00 17:00 Commercial programme
17:00 19:00 Outotec Drinks Reception
Wednesday, 5 November
08:00 18:00 Registration desk open sponsored by Haldor Topse A/S
08:00 19:30 Exhibition open
09:00 10:30 Technical programme
10:30 11:00 Refreshment break sponsored by BASF
11:00 12:30 Technical programme
12:30 14:00 Lunch
14:00 15:30 Technical programme
15:30 16:00 Refreshment break sponsored by BASF
16:00 18:00 Technical programme
18:00 19:30 Drinks Reception co-sponsored by Axens, Foster Wheeler, Sharplex and Technip
Thursday, 6 November Silver Sponsors:
08:30 15:30 Registration desk open sponsored by Haldor Topse A/S
08:30 15:30 Exhibition open
09:00 10:30 Technical programme
10:30 11:00 Refreshment break sponsored by BASF
11:00 12:30 Technical programme
12:30 14:00 Lunch
14:00 15:30 Technical programme
Friday, 7 November
07:30 17:30 Site Visit to TOTAL (optional and separately bookable at cost)

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 Sunday, 2 November
Sightseeing tour
(optional and separately bookable at cost)
09:00 12:00 Paris City Tour
only for delegates who booked and paid for this tour additionally
Participants will meet in the Marriott Rive Gauche Convention Centre lobby at 15 minutes before departure to
board the bus for the tour. Approximate arrival back at the hotel will be 12:00.

Monday, 3 November
08:00 Workshop/Interactive sessions Registration
For delegates registered for the following sessions

09:00 Gas treating simulation Project delivery secrets from a contractor: Planning
In partnership with Optimised Gas Treating and execution success and claims prevention
In partnership with SNC Lavalin

10:30 Refreshment Break

11:00 Gas treating simulation (contd) Project delivery secrets from a contractor: Planning
In partnership with Optimised Gas Treating and execution success and claims prevention
(contd)
In partnership with SNC Lavalin

12:30 Break

13:00 Workshop/Interactive Sessions Registration

For delegates registered for the following sessions

14:00 Ensuring premium quality sulphur reaches the Innovating to Zero Zero SO2 emissions
end user safely and efficiently approaches and challenges
In partnership with Sandvik In partnership with DuPont MECS

15:30 Refreshment Break

16:00 Ensuring premium quality sulphur reaches the Innovating to Zero Zero SO2 emissions
end user safely and efficiently approaches and challenges
In partnership with Sandvik In partnership with DuPont MECS

13:00 Registration desk open

Sponsored by Haldor Topse A/S

15:00 Exhibition open

18:30 Oxbow Welcome Reception (Exhibition Area)

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 Tuesday, 4 November
07:00 Registration desk
Sponsored by Haldor Topse A/S

07:30 Solvadis Champagne Breakfast

Conference Auditorium
Sponsored by ChemTrade Aglobis

Dress code for commercial programme business attire

Global Market Outlooks

09:00 The global outlook for oil and gas and impacts on the sulphur market
The ongoing impact of shale gas and tight oil: Will the US become an exporter and how will this impact
global gas flows?
Will European refineries remain competitive and how will this impact the sulphur market?
How are refinery outputs changing globally?
How will refineries processing sour crude be affected?
Richard Mallinson, Geopolitical Analyst, Energy Aspects

09:30 CRU sulphur outlook: Price dictators and saving graces

Exploring the implications of oil and gas market developments for the sulphur markets
Project update changes and market implications
Domineering China its role as a price dictator
Nickel the saving grace?
Kimberly Gustin, Senior Consultant, Fertilizers, Sulphur & Sulphuric Acid, CRU

10:00 CRU sulphuric acid outlook: A view of supply, demand and trade
How will changes to capacity dictate the emergence of new trade flows?
Environmental legislation and the effect on supply.
Europe: A tightening market?
How is Chinas role in sulphuric acid trade changing?
Peter Harrisson, Senior Consultant, Fertilizers, Sulphur & Sulphuric Acid, CRU

10:30 Refreshment & Network Break

Sponsored by BASF

Sulphur Supply Outlook

11:00 Projects update: How will new projects and capacity increases change the sulphur landscape?
Status update on projects in the Middle East: Capacity expectations and timeframes
How will the Kashagan and Galkynysh projects in the FSU impact on global markets
What effect will Sinopec and China Oil refinery increases have on Chinese sulphur imports?

11:30 An update on SECA rules & their impact on the shipping market
Marc Pauchet, Senior Analyst, Braemar ACM Shipbroking

12:00 Upgrading Alberta bitumen for worldwide transportation Impact on sulfur production
Increasing light oil production in the USA is expected to lead to most Alberta Bitumen produced beyond 2015
being exported to Asia and other destinations, which in turn is expected to have a significant impact on
international sulphur markets.
This presentation will review current bitumen and SCO production capacity, relate it to world sulphur output
and describe how the new upgrading technology would enable bitumen export worldwide.
Peter Clark, Director of Research, Alberta Sulphur Research Ltd

12:30 Lunch

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 Tuesday, 4 November
Acid Supply Outlook
14:00 Smelter acid outlook
Update forthcoming projects
Overview of current production sites and their outputs
Acid transport, logistics and trade flows: How is acid currently moving around trade maps and markets?
Ricardo Martnez Sanz, Sulphuric Acid Sales Director, Atlantic Copper S.A.U.

Demand Outlook for Sulphur and Acid

14:30 Phosphates: A key market for sulphur, but for how long?
Why is phosphate fertilizer production important to the sulphur market?
What are the short-term demand factors currently shaping the phosphates market?
How will rising phosphate fertilizer production impact the future of sulphur demand?
Alice Charlton, Consultant - Phosphates, CRU

15:00 Mosaic's supply revolution: Marine sulphur imports to Florida

The advent of direct imports of solid formed sulphur into Florida from the international sulphur supply chain,
following with implementation of Mosaic's 1 million tpa solid sulfur handling facility, are expected to change
North American and global logistical patterns, prices and supply options dramatically.
This presentation will explore the impact on the sulphur trade map, including the effects on oil sands
producers and opportunities that will arise in the global market.
Jerry dAquin, President, Con-Sul Inc.

15:30 Refreshment & Network Break

Sponsored by BASF

16:00 Demand updates from the titanium dioxide industry

Overview of the titanium dioxide industry what growth potential is there for sulphate based vs chloride
based production?
Assessing the competitiveness of European and US producers against low-cost Chinese production
What is the expected growth of the industry?
Which regions are forecast to have the biggest growth rates?
What are the anticipated impacts of increasing environmental legislation in regards to disposal or
recycling of excess acid?
Thomas Cerny, Independent Consultant, TZMI, Inc.

16:30 Sulphur as a Fertilizer

What opportunities are there for sulphur fertilizers?
Which are the major markets for demand?
How will this industry impact on the wider sulphur industry?
Cyrille Allais, Petrochemicals R&D Specialist, Shell Global Solutions International BV

17:00 Close of Day One

17:00 Outotec Drinks Reception (Exhibition Area)

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 Wednesday, 5 November
08:00 Welcome Coffee
Sponsored by BASF
08:00 Registration desk
Sponsored by Haldor Topse A/S
Conference Auditorium
Sponsored by ChemTrade Aglobis
Stream A: Sulphur
New and Recent Projects
09:00 CASE STUDY: Mishraq sulphur purification
facility
Uday Parekh, Vice President, International
Business Development, Devco
This paper will describe the project development and
execution of the design, fabrication and installation of a
fully functional sulphur purification facility for the Mishraq
State Sulphur Company in Iraq. The case study will detail
the history of the project, including a full description of the
SCD process, project development and financing, project
execution including design, procurement, fabrication,
preassembly and installation.
09:30 Direct reduction of SO2 to sulphur
Herv Baron, Project Manager, Le Gaz Integral
By dint of detailed modelling, backed up by careful
experimental and pilot-scale trials, LGI has developed a
process for converting smelter gas SO2 to elemental
sulphur by reduction with methane that is optimized to
avoid soot formation, the main technical disadvantage of
the process in the past. It will be used at the Norilsk
smelter in northern Russia, where logistical difficulties in
the winter preclude conversion to sulphuric acid.
10:00 CASE STUDY: Successful SMARTSULF unit
starting up at PEMEX Salamanca refinery
Michael Heisel, General Manager,
ITS Reaktortechnik
SMARTSULF technology performs sulphur recovery
and tail gas treatment in just two catalytic reactors at
overall sulphur recovery efficiencies of 99.5% or more.
This paper describes the technical and commercial
benefits of the process and provides an account of the
start-up and successful performance test of an 80-t/d unit
processing amine acid gas and SWS off-gas at PEMEXs
Salamanca refinery.
10:30 Refreshment & Network Break
Sponsored by BASF
Stream B: Sulphuric Acid
Sulphuric Acid Catalyst
09:00 PRODUCT LAUNCH: How to effectively
manage and reduce emissions in sulfuric acid
plants using state-of-the-art MECS Catalysts
Tom Brouwers, Product Manager - Sulfuric Acid
Plants & Catalyst, DuPont Sustainable
Solutions
This paper will showcase the commercial results of the
GEAR catalyst, which lowers SO2 emissions while
increasing acid production, extending operating time and
increasing energy savings. The paper will also detail a
new cesium catalyst formulation which promises
improved performance.
09:30 PRODUCT LAUNCH: From nano-scale studies
of working sulphuric acid catalysts to
improved industrial scale sulphuric acid
production
Kurt Christensen, General Manager, Haldor
Topse A/S
Topse recently introduced new advanced in-situ
techniques, including Raman, infrared and electron
microscopy, to directly resolve the dynamic state of
catalyst samples interacting with an SO2/O2/SO3 gas
mixture at temperatures up to 600C. These techniques
provide unprecedented insight into, for example, a
simulated converter start-up and can explain macro-scale
phenomena in the industrial converter such as catalyst
colours, oxidation states, melt transformation, melt
extraction by dust, pressure drop build-up and catalytic
activity.
10:00 Catalysts - 'Heart' of the sulphuric acid
process
Lisa Krumpholz, Product Manager Oxidation
Catalysts, Clariant Produkte (Deutschland)
GmbH
Clariant has recently introduced a new SO2 oxidation
catalyst which operates at even lower temperatures than
cesium catalysts currently on the market. Case studies of
real plant experience with the new catalyst will be
presented, along with supporting data from laboratory
findings.
10:30 Refreshment & Network Break
Sponsored by BASF
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Process Control
11:00 Sulfur recovery on-line analysers from front
end design through life cycle ownership
Stuart Simmonds, Business Development
Manager, AMETEK Process Instruments
The paper covers three topics relating to SRU process
analyzers: An industry survey solicited from three user
types: i) Start up and FEED engineers; ii) Operations; iii)
End user analyzer engineers; The utility of SRU feed
forward control; Lessons Learned from the viewpoint of
a start up engineer. How things go wrong from the
initiation of FEED, through detailed engineering to
systems integration to end user hand over.
11:30 Measurement of H2S in methyl-diethanol
amine (MDEA) with laser based Raman
photometry
Robert Hegger, Vice President Sales &
Marketing, Applied Instrument Technologies,
Inc.
Raman spectroscopy, which measures the characteristic
frequency deviations caused by excitation of the various
molecules in a mixture by monochromatic light, is more
specific than IR absorption spectroscopy and is
unaffected by the presence of water. This paper
describes a laser-based instrument for monitoring rich
and lean H2S loadings in MDEA solution so as to
maintain optimal performance of this high-selectivity
absorbent.
12:00 Next generation SRU control Also for SWAG
Aernout Henning, Principal Process Control
Engineer, Jacobs Nederland BV
Introduced in 2008, Jacobs Nederlands ABC+ system for
continuous control of combustion air feed to the SRU
burner added feed-forward control based on on-line
analysis of the amine acid gas (AAG) feed to an array of
control parameters based on temperature, pressure, flow
rate and tail gas composition measurements. The latest
version, which includes SWS off-gas analysis, has been
in operation for a year in a UK refinery.
12:30 Lunch
Desulphurisation
14:00 Desulphurization of coke oven gas in steel
and power industries with COKE-SMAX
advanced technologies
Mahin Rameshni, President & CEO, Rameshni
& Associates Technology & Engineering LLC
(RATE)
A zero-emission system for purifying coke oven gas from
steel works is based on the COKE-SMAX process, in
which acidic components are absorbed in aqueous
ammonia, desorbed and washed to recover ammonia,
followed by Claus sulphur recovery.
Sulphuric Acid Technology
11:00 CASE STUDY: Commercialization of MECS
SolvR regenerative SO2 recovery
technology
Steven Puricelli, Director Business
Development, MECS, Inc. - DuPont Sustainable
Solutions
This paper covers the operating data and history of the
SolvR technology installation at Southern States
Chemical and presents the process options available to
use this technology for expanding sulphuric acid
production capacity (up to 20% on a double absorption
plant) while at the same time achieving emissions of 20
ppm SO2.
11:30 Strong sulphuric acid system upgrades
opportunities in retrofitting acid plants
NORAM Engineering & Constructors Ltd
Guy Cooper, Director, Sulphuric Acid Business,
NORAM Engineering & Constructors Ltd
This paper presents some important aspects of recent
upgrade projects successfully executed by NORAM in
retrofitting the strong acid system of existing acid plants.
These plant upgrades achieve increased plant reliability,
increased equipment longevity and higher plant
performance.
12:00 Digitalization: Chances to improve plant
performance
Stefan Bruner, Product Engineer Sulfuric
Acid, Outotec GmbH
This paper will demonstrate the opportunities of applying
digitalisation to sulphuric acid production, including
improvements in operational safety, plant reliability and
compliance with environmental legislation.
12:30 Lunch
Heat Recovery
14:00 Water and energy balance new concept for
the optimisation of SA plants in remote, dry
regions
Philippe Malsan, Business & Development
Manager, Technip Corporate Services
This paper will present the optimisation of the energy
production and water consumption from the sulphuric acid
plant integrated in a phosphate fertilizer complex located
in a remote desert area. The case study will discuss in
detail, the procedure and calculations for finding the
optimum electrical production and water savings.
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14:30 Recycling H2S and CO2 to produce syngas:
new technology and process line-ups
Flavio Manenti, Professor of Chemical
Engineering, Politecnico di Milano
Under the right conditions, H2S and CO2 can be made to
interact at high temperature to produce synthesis gas (H2
+ CO) and elemental sulphur. The paper will describe the
investigation of the detailed kinetics of the process, the
identification of the optimal conditions, the design of a
high-temperature reactor and the feasibility of an
industrial plant.
15:00 H2S scavenger processes and acid gas
removal
Marc Schulz, Engineering Manager, Ultrafab
Industries LLC
The paper presents liquid scavenger technology as an
adjunct or an alternative to amine absorption as a method
of removing H2S from sour gas streams in new facilities
or as a retrofit.
15:30 Refreshment & Network Break
Sponsored by BASF
Sulphur Recovery
16:00 Putting the SUPERCLAUS process to the test
over 25 years
Bruce Klint, Director of Engineering, Sulphur
Experts Inc.
The paper will present a comprehensive overview of 25
years of SUPERCLAUS performance testing worldwide.
Drawing on actual field data, it will present practical
lessons learned by operators that can be applied as an
operational how to guide to ensure optimum
SUPERCLAUS performance.
16:30 CASE STUDY: Advantages of modular
construction for small scale SRU in harsh
climates
Thibaut Heim, Process Engineer, PROSERNAT
There is increasing industry demand for modular small-
capacity SRUs to be able to operate in very cold, remote
locations. This paper will demonstrate how modular
fabrication has been applied to address logistical and
operational challenges in recent acid gas treatment
projects comprising gas sweetening, S recovery, tail gas
incineration and liquid sulphur degassing units.
17:00 Utility considerations for sulfur recovery units
Elmo Nasato, President, Nasato Consulting
This paper will identify the key design and operating
considerations for the utility side of an SRU, highlighting
the importance paying keen attention to the utility side
during normal day-to-day operations in order to ensure
reliable, safe and high on-line operation of the SRU.
17:30 RAM analysis for sulfur recovery units
Mauro Alberto Galbiati, Process Engineer,
Siirtec Nigi SpA
Reliability, Availability and Maintainability (RAM)
analyses, are gradually becoming a standard requirement
for the front-end engineering design phase deliverables
14:30 CASE STUDY: MOSAICs use of MECS Heat
Recovery System (HRS) Operator Training
Simulator (OTS) for Training at New Wales
facility
David Dericotte, Business Development
Manager, DuPont Sustainable Solutions
This paper will detail the development and
implementation of a bespoke operator training simulator
for heat recovery systems at Mosaics acid plants. The
paper will cover how MECS worked with Mosaic
operators to develop, test and validate the OTS and
share the experience of operators using the system.
15:00 Workshop: Hydrogen Gas Incidents
This workshop will focus on issues concerning hydrogen
gas incidents that have occurred in the sulphuric industry
worldwide. The session will highlight topics such as
underlying causes, suggestions for mitigation and
prevention.
15:30 Refreshment & Network Break
Sponsored by BASF
16:00 Workshop: Hydrogen Gas Incidents (Contd)
Many of these incidents have a common thread. Knowing
the potential causes will assist plant operators,
maintenance personnel, engineers, and designers to
minimize the risks of these incidents. Four to six different
incidents will be presented, and the panel will discuss the
events leading to the incident, the effect, and the action
taken.
The session will include presentations that will be geared
towards practising engineers with various degrees of
exposure to the sulphuric acid process, plant operation,
and plant maintenance. The Workshops objective is to
assist engineers in evaluating the operation and the
maintenance of their plants. Following the presentations,
there will be a panel discussion providing participants with
an opportunity to have their questions answered by our
distinguished panel of experts in the industry
Moderator:
Rick Davis, President, Davis & Associates Consulting
Inc.
Panellists:
Steven Puricelli, Director Business Development,
DuPont Sustainable Solutions
Hannes Storch, Vice President Sulphuric Acid & Gas
Cleaning , Outotec GmbH
Rene Dijkstra, Technology Manager Acid, Chemetics
Inc.
Jim Dougherty, Process Engineer, Mosaic Company
David Ash, Engineering Manager - Sulphuric Acid,
INEOS Enterprises
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for oil and gas and refineries industries. This paper is 18:00 Drinks Reception
about the RAM analysis assumptions and conclusions Co-sponsored by Axens, Foster Wheeler,
that were applied and obtained for a sulfur recovery unit Sharplex and Technip
in an Italian refinery for which a minimum availability of
98.5% had to be granted.

18:00 Drinks Reception

Co-sponsored by Axens, Foster Wheeler,
Sharplex and Technip

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 Thursday, 6 November
08:00 Welcome Coffee
Sponsored by BASF
08:00 Registration desk
Sponsored by Haldor Topse A/S
Conference Auditorium
Sponsored by ChemTrade Aglobis
Stream A: Sulphur
Tail Gas Treatment
09:00 Foaming prevention in TGTU amine units
Ben Spooner, Senior Process Engineer,
Amine Experts
Foaming in the amine absorber of a TGTU results when
SO2 contaminates the water in the quench tower, raising
CO2 recycle to the SRU and sulphur emissions from the
stack. . Amine Experts has developed solutions to the
problem using specific non-proprietary testing, analytical
and operational strategies.
09:30 Benefits of heat-stable salts in tail gas
treaters
Clay Jones, Senior Development Engineer,
Optimized Gas Treating, Inc.
Heat-stable salts (HSS) such as thiocyanates and
thiosulfates formed as degradation products in amine gas
treating units actually enhance H2S absorption efficiency.
The paper explains why that is and provides guidelines
as to how much HSS should be left in the system.
10:00 Time and temperature effects on tail gas
catalyst performance
Michael Huffmaster, Consultant (Professional
Engineer), Michael A. Huffmaster, PE, LLC
Fernando Maldonado, Business Development
Manager Tail Gas, Criterion Catalysts and
Technologies
Conversion of sulphur species to H2S in the reduction
reactor of a TGTU is a function of catalyst activity, reactor
space velocity and temperature. The paper provides an
assessment of the impact of these principal variables on
both catalyst bed design and performance.
10:30 Refreshment & Network Break
Sponsored by BASF
Stream B: Sulphuric Acid
Metallurgical Acid
09:00 CASE STUDY: Heavy corrosion protection
maintenance of copper smelter gas cleaning
facilities
Hanno Hintze, Director Sulphuric Acid, Aurubis
AG
Roland Guenther, Sales & Project Manager,
STEULER-KCH GmbH
This case study describes heavy corrosion protection
maintenance works at Aurubis Hamburgs copper
smelter. During the most recent shut-down, the 40 year-
old quench towers required maintenance of the gas inlets
and rebricking of major parts of the carbon brick lining.
The paper will share insights from the development of the
project and lessons learnt.
09:30 Recovery of mercury from sulphuric acid to
sub-mg/l concentration levels using molecular
recognition technology
Neil Izatt, Vice President, IBC Advanced
Technologies, Inc.
Mercury commonly shows up as a toxic impurity in
sulphuric acid produced from off-gases from copper, zinc
or lead smelting. IBC has developed a reagent that
2+ 2+
selectively binds Hg and (to a lesser extent) Hg2 in a
solid form that can be filtered off from the acid and can be
worked up to recover the mercury values in concentrated
form, avoiding the need for environmentally-dubious
disposal methods.
10:00 New integrated solution for the treatment of
sulfur containing ores
Eric Eccleston, Process Manager, FluoSolids
Technology, Technip
Tom Brouwers, Product Manager - Sulfuric Acid
Plants & Catalyst, MECS Europe/Africa BVBA -
DuPont Sustainable Solutions
The treatment of sulfur/sulfide containing ore with
concomitant production of sulfuric acid is a process route
frequently used in the mineral industry. A new global
technology solution for the treatment of sulfur containing
ores is presented in this paper. The technical advantages
and the benefits for the industry brought by the integrated
solution are presented and discussed.
10:30 Refreshment & Network Break
Sponsored by BASF
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SRU Equipment
11:00 Effects of mixing on main reaction furnace
chemistry and total cost of ownership
Sander Lems, Research Engineer,
Stijn Hoffland, Sales Manager,
Duiker Combustion Engineers
Reaction kinetics and empirical evidence will be used to
show that thorough mixing in a high-intensity burner is
more important than high temperature and residence time
in the destruction of NH3 and BTEX, in reducing COS
and CS2 formation and in maximizing sulphur generation
in the Claus SRU furnace. The impact of this on the total
cost of ownership will be shown.
11:30 CASE STUDY: High SRU reaction furnace skin
temperature
John OConnell, Sulfur Specialist, Saudi
Aramco
When an SRU furnace was returned to operation after a
correctly executed refractory replacement, the furnace
skin temperature was abnormally high, which led to a
significant loss of refinery production. Following an
exhaustive root cause analysis, the refractory lining was
redesigned to take account of factors such as vessel and
firebrick emissivity, flame geometry and maximum flame
and adiabatic process temperatures.
12:00 In-ground versus above-ground sulfur sealing
An industry survey
Jim Hartman, Corporate Business Development,
Controls Southeast, Inc.
The paper presents the results of a survey conducted in
2014 of the experience of sulphur experts from operating
companies, engineering/ procurement/ construction firms,
and technology licensors with the range of commercially
available sulphur sealing technology. Key design
considerations influencing selection are presented, along
with the benefits, weaknesses, and total installed costs
for current sulphur sealing options.
12:30 Lunch
Sulphur Recovery Operations
14:00 CASE STUDY: To sulphur wash or not to
sulphur wash?
Aisha Akram, Process Engineer, Milford Haven
Refinery
Soot formation on Claus catalyst, as evidenced by a rise
in back-pressure at the thermal reactor, is most likely to
occur when support gas is being used. Though it leads to
a loss in SRU processing capacity, operators are often
reluctant to intervene with a sulphur wash, as sub-
dewpoint operation is not the norm. This paper shows
how the unit can recover without intervention, how long it
takes and what the impact on catalyst activity is.
Sulphuric Acid Materials and
Equipment
11:00 Computational model of large capacity molten
sulphur combustion spray efficacy and
process efficiency
Kathleen Brown, Research Engineer, Spraying
Systems Co.
This paper presents the results of a detailed spray
injection modelling study demonstrating the scale up of
the spray solution as well as the 100% spray combustion
requirement at these elevated sulphur flow capacities.
Results from laboratory tests and full scale industrial
settings will be shared.
11:30 Improved performance with split-flow gas-gas
heat exchangers
Kim Nikolaisen, Senior Process Engineer,
NORAM Engineering & Constructors Ltd
This paper describes important design aspects of the
split-flow gas-gas heat exchangers to better understand
their advantages and limitations in comparison with
conventional equipment designs. Case studies will be
given to show how plant operation is improved by the
installation of gas-gas heat exchangers.
12:00 Maintenance as an instrument to ensure the
operation of a sulphuric acid plant
Andreas Hopp, Head of Application Technology
Department, STEULER-KCH GmbH
On account of the aggressive operating conditions,
sulphuric acid plants have to be shut down regularly for
protective maintenance. This presentation shows the
various problems faced when sensibly and purposefully
maintaining and servicing a sulphuric acid plant. It will
detail the necessary repairs without losing sight of the
need to minimize production loss.
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Fluoro-thermoplastic liners for sulphuric acid
applications - an update on installation
methods and materials
Mirko Lotz, Business Development Engineer,
Quadrant EPP AG
Fluorinated thermoplastics provide effective protection
against corrosion by condensing sulphuric acid, as in off-
gas lines in smelter acid plants, provided the lining
materials are correctly selected, properly installed and
skilfully welded. The paper will discuss these and the
impact of external standards such as ASME-RTP 1 and
DVS.
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14:30 CASE STUDY: De-mothballing acid gas
enrichment and low-strength acid gas
processing retrofit options for sulphur
recovery
Nasser Alqahtani, Process Engineer, Araiba
Natural gas processed through the Haradh Gas Plant
contains so much more CO2 than H2S that the removed
acid gas has historically been flared off. To eliminate
flaring, a formerly mothballed acid gas enrichment system
has been revamped with a reduced number of mass
transfer stages, which reduces CO2 removal.
14:30 Predictive maintenance of fiberglass
reinforced plastic equipment
Geoffrey Clarkson, CEO, UTComp Inc.
This paper will describe a non-destructive technology for
evaluating FRP equipment and will monitor the effects of
corrosion and damage in order to determine maintenance
and replacement needs. Case studies will be referenced
to show how the technology has been used on FRP
equipment in SO2 gas cleaning and weak sulphuric acid
service.

15:00 Innovative process for multi-point sequential 15:00 Plastic materials for sulphuric acid services
SO2 injection in Claus sulfur recovery unit Karin Jacobson, Research Leader, Swerea
Jack D. Allenberg, Senior Process Consultant, KIMAB
Sulfur Operations Support, Inc. In its long-running research programme on the use of
polymers in sulphuric acid process equipment in
This paper describes a new proprietary process utilizing
collaboration with end-users and materials and
distributed SO2 injection to increase the capacity of
equipment suppliers, Swerea-KIMAB has identified PVC
existing Claus units. It also reduces the equipment
materials and welding rods and fluoropolymers for high
requirement for new gas plant applications by eliminating
acid concentrations (>93 wt-%) and FRP and rubber
the requirement for traditional thermal reactors, large
linings for 72-85 wt-% acids.
waste heat boilers, and traditional reheaters. Test data
and initial results will be shared.

15:30 Close of Conference

15:30 Close of Conference

Friday, 7 November
07:30 - Site Visit to TOTAL Normandy Refinery
17:30 (exact times and cost to be confirmed
delegates have to be booked on this tour and must pay an additional fee to attend)
Implemented at the heart of the estuary of the Seine, it was in 1933 that the Normandy refinery was built in the
surroundings of Le Havre.
Nowadays it is a 360 hectares area on which around 12 million tons of crude oil are transformed into everyday life
products (gasoline, diesel, sulfur, lubricants, etc.). The Normandy refinery supplies 13% of consumed products of
France and more particularly to the Paris area.

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