ERTC 14th Annual Meeting Call for papers

ERTC CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE: Friday 16th April 2010

Please email your abstracts to mustafah.abdullah@incisivemedia.com

ERTC 15th Annual Meeting, 29 Nov– 1 Dec 2010 - SwissHotel, Istanbul

This year we will host the ERTC Annual Meeting in Istanbul, Turkey. It is the premier event of the year for Europe's oil refining industry with over 600 professionals attending. The conference provides the ideal platform for technology transfer to key people in the industry. Attendees include technical, operational management, process and technical support staff as well as refining management.

We are now accepting abstract sumissions for grading by our esteemed advisory panel for inclusion on the 2010 agenda. You are now invited to submit one or two original papers. Acceptance criteria will be originality and technical innovation.

At this stage, the only requirements are a working title, subject area and brief description of the proposed content (typically a 200 word abstract).

Important notice: Please note that speakers are subject to the usual delegate registration fees.

Preference will be given to papers giving case histories and actual operating experience. We would be pleased to receive abstracts from supply companies that are co-authored with operating companies. We will particularly welcome papers that address the following issues:

Financial crises and ways out

Effects of the economic crisis on the petroleum products demand
Changing of motor fuel supply / balance in Europe
The effects of the crisis on the ongoing refinery investments
Oil and gas supply and price forecast for Europe
Cheap projects or no projects, how to save money
Refinery economics in the downturn
Maximisation of distillates production and minimisation of gasoline production

Maximisation of the FCC LCO production

Conversion of (FCC) gasoline into distillates
Maximum distillates hydrocracking catalysts

Heavy fuel oils

Expected market evolution in marine fuel oil. What are the expected new (sulfur) specifications?
New process technologies to remove sulfur from heavy oils
Heavy oils conversion (Coker, Flexicoker, FCC Residue Cracking, Heavy Oil Hydrocraking)
SOx (and NOx) scrubbers for heavy oil users (including seegoing ships)
Developments in heavy oil upgrading

Energy efficiency and novel approaches to recover low temperature heat

Inter-unit heat integration
New furnace design/technology and integration of gasturbine with furnace to improve furnace efficiency

Emissions

UltraLow NOx burners for fuel gas and fuel oil
DeNOx (and DeNOx) additives for FCC

Plus

Shift yield slate from gasoline to diesel
Bottom of the barrel full conversion
Excess of naphtha in Europe - what can be done?
Hydrogen utilisation and management
Bottom of the barrel upgrading
Impact of new legislation on refining
Fuel to meet the requirements of future engine technology

At this stage, the only requirements are a working title, subject area and brief description of the proposed content (typically a 200 word abstract).

In order to meet the conference-planning timetable and to ensure submission to the advisory panel, please respond by Friday 16th April 2010.