Preliminary Program subject to change
T2002 Rotating Equipment
OverviewDesign, operation, reliability and maintenance of rotating equipment in an ethylene plant
Primary SponsorTopical 2: Ethylene Producers Conference (T2)

Chair

Kevin Kisor
Senior Engineer
MAN TURBO Inc. USA
2901 Wilcrest Drive
# 345
Houston, TX 77077
Phone Number: 713-268-8020
Fax Number: 713-780-2848
Email: Kevin.Kisor@manturbo-us.com

CoChair

Alan S. Pyle
Staff Engineer
Rotating Equipment Engineering
Shell Global Solutions
3333 Highway 6 South
Houston, TX 77251-1380
Phone Number: 281-544-8435
Email: alan.pyle@shell.com
Check Valves in Ethylene Plants
Gerard Schreurs, R&D Department, Mokveld Valves bv, Nijverheidsstraat 67, PO Box 227, 2800 AE Gouda, Netherlands
Torque Measurement Devices on Large Tubomachinery
Bill Meier, Kop-Flex, Inc., P.O. Box 1696, Baltimore, MD 21203
Equipment Protection & Performance Monitoring Using System 1® and Bently Performance(Tm) Se(Tm) Software
Stephen Plaisance, MDS, GE Energy Services, 13000 Executive Dr, Sugar Land, TX 77478-4506
Guidelines for Specifying and Evaluating New and Rerated Multistage Centrifugal Compressors
James F. Blahovec, Elliott Company, 901 Fourth Street, Jeannette, PA 15644
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Uprating Steam Turbines to Improve Efficiency, Output and/or Reliability
Sandra J. Simmons, Houston Operations, TurboCare, Inc., 3100 S. Sam Houston Parkway East, Houston, TX 77047 and Rich Olivier, TurboCare, Inc., 435 Main Street, Suite 4000, P.O. Box 7444, Fitchburg, MA 01420
Ethylene Plant Process Gas Compressor Fouling and Fouling Control
Sheri R. Snider, Nalco Company, 7705 Highway 90A, Sugar Land, TX 77478
Mitigation of Fouling in Charge Gas Compressor – an Experimental Study
Chetan Anand1, Patricio Herrera1, Ted Salari2 and Richard Stanczak2, (1)NOVA Chemicals Research & Technology Centre, NOVA Chemicals, 2928-16th Street NE, Calgary, AB T2E7K7, Canada, (2)NOVA Chemicals, 785 Petrolia Line, Corunna, ON N0N 1G0, Canada

Topical 2: Ethylene Producers Conference