2009 Spring National Meeting: At-A-Glance

  MONDAY
April 27
TUESDAY
April 28
WEDNESDAY
April 29
THURSDAY
April 30
AM PM AM PM AM PM AM
Engineering Sciences and Fundamentals Thermodynamics and Phase Equilibria
8:00 AM-11:00 AM
           
Separations Division (Please also see T8 Topical) Advances in Fluid-Particle Separations
8:00 AM-11:00 AM
Fluid-Particles Separation Challenges in the Energy Industries
2:00 PM-5:00 PM
         
Management Division Project Management
8:00 AM-11:00 AM
Energy and Environment Management Programs
2:00 PM-5:00 PM
Management of Open Innovation
8:30 AM-11:30 AM
How Do You Problem Solve and Why Is It Important?
2:00 PM-5:00 PM
     
North American Mixing Forum   Industrial Mixing Technology
2:00 PM-5:00 PM
         
Environmental Division         Water Treatment and Desalination
8:30 AM-11:30 AM
Regulatory Hot Topics (Air, Water, Waste, Nano and Nano Toxicology)
2:00 PM-5:00 PM
 
Process Development Division Instrumentation: An Engineer’s Best Friend and Biggest Enemy
8:00 AM-11:00 AM
Plant Improvements: Identifying and Prioritizing Work When the Plant Is Running Well
2:00 PM-5:00 PM
Enhanced Oil Recovery
8:30 AM-11:30 AM
Biofuels Process Development
2:00 PM-5:30 PM
Shortcut Methodology in Pilot Plants
8:30 AM-11:30 AM
   
Nuclear Engineering Division Nuclear Process Chemistry Tutorial - Session 1
8:00 AM-11:00 AM
Nuclear Process Chemistry Tutorial - Session 2
2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Nuclear Process Chemistry - Review/Problem Session 1
4:00 PM-5:00 PM
Advances in Nuclear Fuel Processing and Nuclear Waste Management I
8:30 AM-11:30 AM
Advances In Nuclear Fuel Processing And Nuclear Waste Management II
2:00 PM-5:00 PM
Nuclear Process Chemistry Tutorial - Session 3
8:30 AM-11:30 AM
Nuclear Process Chemistry Tutorial - Session 4
2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Nuclear Process Chemistry - Review/Problem Session #2
4:00 PM-5:00 PM
 
Fuels and Petrochemicals Division     Advances in Aromatics Processing I
8:30 AM-11:30 AM
Advances in Aromatics Processing II
2:00 PM-5:00 PM
     
Liaison Functions Career Transitions Roadmap
9:00 AM-1:45 PM
Spring Meeting Keynote Address - Restoring Public Trust: Why Ethics and Transparency Are Vital to Business Success
11:15 AM-12:15 PM
ChemE Consultant...or Thinking about It? Reducing Your Risks and Liabilities In the Consulting Arena
1:20 PM-2:20 PM
Employer and Senior Management: Retaining Talent and Correctly Implementing Resource Policy/ Job Seekers: How to Remain Valid and Vital as You Search
2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Grogan Advisory Services: Rebuilding Your Wealth
5:15 PM-5:45 PM
Developing Energy Strategies Plenary
11:45 AM-1:15 PM
Grogan Advisory Services: Open Forum: Investment Discussion
5:15 PM-5:45 PM
Water Sustainability Plenary
11:45 AM-1:15 PM
Grogan Advisory Services: Ira Secrets, Strategies to Create Allocation, Retire Early, and Leave a Legacy
5:15 PM-5:45 PM
 
Topical 1: 43rd Loss Prevention Symposium Global Congress On Process Safety Opening Keynote Address
8:00 AM-9:30 AM
Fires, Explosions and Reactive Chemicals
10:00 AM-11:30 AM
Consequence Modeling
1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Hazard Evaluations and Layer of Protection Analyses
8:00 AM-11:45 AM
Food and Consumer Products Process Hazards
1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Poster Session
5:15 PM-6:30 PM
Audits, Inspection and Regulation
8:00 AM-11:45 AM
Case Histories and Lessons Learned
1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Explosion Prevention and Mitigation
8:00 AM-12:30 PM
Topical 2: 11th Process Plant Safety Symposium Applications of Lopa (Layer Of Protection Analysis)
10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Safety Culture and Operational Discipline
1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Mechanical Integrity - State of the Art
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Process Safety – From the Top-Down and Bottom-up
1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Applications of Risk Analysis Techniques
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
   
Topical 3: Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) 24th International Conference Auditing Process Safety
10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Implementing Psm Globally
1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Tools to Identify Hazards
3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Process Safety Metrics and Culture
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Transportation Risk
1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Fire, Explosion, & Quantitative Analysis
3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Managing Organizational Change
8:00 AM-9:30 AM
Risk Criteria
10:15 AM-12:00 PM
   
Topical 4: The 21st Ethylene Producers’ Conference Ethylene Plant Contaminants: Myths and War Stories
8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Ethylene Plant Rotating Equipment Paper Session
8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Ethylene Producers Conference Keynote Presentation
1:30 PM-2:30 PM
Ethylene Plant Rotating Equipment Roundtable Session
2:30 PM-5:30 PM
Ethylene Plant Technology - Trends in Olefin Plant Feedstocks
2:30 PM-5:30 PM
Ethylene Plant Maintenance and Reliability Session
8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Ethylene Plant Process Control Paper Session
8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Ethylene Plant Environmental Issues Paper Session
2:00 PM-5:30 PM
Ethylene Plant Technology - Fundamentals and Innovation
2:00 PM-5:30 PM
Ethylene Plant Operations Paper Session
8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Ethylene Plant Operations - Acetylene Hydrogenation Tutorial
2:00 PM-5:30 PM
Ethylene Plant Safety Paper Session
2:00 PM-5:30 PM
Ethylene Plant Technology - Energy Consumption and Optimization
8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Topical 5: Emerging Energy Frontiers in Research Government Role in Alternative Energy: Strategy and Perspective
8:00 AM-11:00 AM
Recent Advances in Fuel Cell and Battery Technologies
2:00 PM-5:00 PM
Hydrogen Production, Storage and Utilization
8:30 AM-11:30 AM
Analysis of Transport Processes in New Energy and Environmental Systems
2:00 PM-5:00 PM
Advances in Biofuel Technologies
8:30 AM-11:30 AM
Biomass Thermal Conversion
2:00 PM-3:30 PM
 
Topical 6: 9th Topical Conference on Gas Utilization Coal, Biomass and Gas Conversion
8:00 AM-11:00 AM
LNG Technology
8:00 AM-11:00 AM
LNG Regasification
2:00 PM-5:00 PM
LNG Equipment - I
8:30 AM-11:30 AM
LNG Equipment - II
2:00 PM-5:00 PM
LNG Safety - I
8:30 AM-11:30 AM
LNG Safety - II
2:00 PM-5:00 PM
 
Topical 7: 12th Topical on Refinery Processing CO2 Reduction Tutorial
8:00 AM-11:00 AM
Process Control and Optimization
2:00 PM-5:30 PM
Simulation, Engineering and Design
2:00 PM-5:30 PM
Energy Efficiency Tutorial
8:30 AM-11:30 AM
Regulations, Benzene and Sulfur Removal
8:30 AM-11:30 AM
Energy and Conservation
2:00 PM-5:00 PM
Expansion, Revamps, and Debottlenecking
2:00 PM-5:00 PM
Advances in Bioprocessing
8:30 AM-11:30 AM
Advances in Hydroprocessing and FCC
8:30 AM-11:30 AM
Heavy Oil Chemistry and Bottom of the Barrel
2:00 PM-5:00 PM
New Technologies in Refining
2:00 PM-5:00 PM
 
Topical 8: Distillation Topical Improved Optimization and Energy Utilization
8:00 AM-11:15 AM
Improved Design and Operation in Refinery Distillation
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Multipass and Single-Pass Trays: New Ways of Overcoming Challenges
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
New Frontiers in Packing Technology
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Innovations in Distillation Control and in Batch Distillation
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Enhanced Distillation: Novel Applications and Processes
1:30 PM-5:30 PM
 
Topical 9: Sustainability: Lessons, Actions and Outlook Sustainable Energy I
8:00 AM-11:00 AM
Sustainable Energy II
2:00 PM-5:00 PM
Establishing and Ensuring Sustainable Biofuels Development: A Department of Energy/Industry Perspective
8:30 AM-11:30 AM
  Biofuels Development in the United States I
8:30 AM-11:30 AM
Biofuels Development in the United States II
2:00 PM-5:00 PM
Sustainable Supply Chain Forum
8:30 AM-11:30 AM
Topical A: Applications of Microreactor Engineering Microprocessing: Fine Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals Synthesis and Production
8:00 AM-11:00 AM
Microprocessing: Mixing, Mass Transfer and Heat Exchange
2:00 PM-5:30 PM
Microprocessing: Energy Generation and Fuel Processing
8:30 AM-11:30 AM
Microprocessing: Catalyzed and Enzymatic Processes
2:00 PM-5:00 PM
Microprocessing: Synthesis, Separation, and Simulation
8:30 AM-11:30 AM
   
Topical B: Advanced Fossil Energy Utilization Fuel Processing for Hydrogen Production From Fossil Fuels Plenary
8:00 AM-9:00 AM
Fuel Processing for Hydrogen Production From Fossil Fuels: Plasma Reforming
9:00 AM-11:20 AM
Fuel Processing for Hydrogen Production From Fossil Fuels II
2:00 PM-5:45 PM
Fuel Processing for Hydrogen Production From Fossil Fuels III
8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Fuel Processing for Hydrogen Production From Fossil Fuels IV
2:00 PM-5:30 PM
Carbon Dioxide Capture and Separation I
8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Mercury and Other Trace Elements in Fuel: Emissions and Control I
2:00 PM-5:00 PM
Carbon Dioxide Capture and Separation II
2:00 PM-5:30 PM
Mercury and Other Trace Elements In Fuel: Emissions and Control II
8:30 AM-11:30 AM