The Pfister Hotel, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
September 17 - 20, 2018

Presentation Summaries and Slides

• Advances in Xfh® Ultra
• CFD approach for entrainment in kettle reboilers
• Lessons learned: Accurate modeling of vacuum vertical tubeside thermosiphon reboilers (VTTRs)
• Lessons learned: Modeling double-wall tubes in Xist®
• Limitations of air-cooler performance revealed using CFD simulations
• Phase-change methods for plate heat exchangers
• Shellside vacuum condensation of hydrocarbon mixtures
• Turndown limits for vertical tubeside thermosiphon reboilers
• New features and updates in Xchanger Suite® 8

Poster Summaries

• Adjunctive treatments to help reduce corrosion, fouling, and hydrocarbon presence
• Blue Sky: Equation-oriented approach to modeling
• Edgeview™ real-time demonstration at Research & Technology Center (RTC)
• Optimizing crude preheat train cleaning schedules using SmartPM™
• Proprietary contract testing at Research & Technology Center (RTC)
• Shell-and-tube heat exchanger design in Xchanger Suite® 8
• Standard evaluation test matrix for crude oil fouling
• Validating heat transfer and pressure drop methods in Xpfe®

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