Highlights of the technical papers to be presented over three days include:

Operational experience and case studies contributing:

• Process enhancements and cost reductions
• Achieving environmental excellence and energy efficiencies
• Commissioning and operational experiences
• Capacity enhancements and product diversification
• Restoration, revamping and maintenance
• Equipment improvements and optimizations
• Operator training and task planning

Technical subject areas on innovations and improvements:

Synthesis gas generation
• high performance alloys in steam reforming
•  furnace modelling and monitoring
•  autothermal reformers
•  catalyst progress
• gasification-based technologies

Ammonia / Urea
•  revamping to increase capacity and/or efficiency/economics
•  process control
•  catalysts and their protection
• reliability and safety issues
• trimming down syngas inerts levels
•  ammonia storage
•  pushing the capacity limits of jumbo plants
• maintenance planning
•  cutting emissions
• carbon capture

Methanol, fuels and chemicals
•  large-scale methanol plants and their operation
• methanol production from solid feeds: coal, petroleum coke, biomass
• methanol synthesis catalysts
• process control in methanol plants
• methanol rectification
•  revamping
• dimethyl ether (DME)
• methanol to gasoline
• methanol to olefins
• GTL by Fischer-Tropsch synthesis
•  hydrogen & CO from synthesis gas
• synthetic natural gas

Nitric acid and nitrates
• conversion efficiency in ammonia combustion
• PGM recovery from gauzes and plant hardware
• experience in N2O and NOx management
• safer solid AN fertilizers
• AN and UAN solutions
•  LDAN

Nitrogen fertilizers
•  granulation and prilling
• ammonium sulphate
•  controlling nitrogen release