SCHEDULE
HTRI’s Diamond Anniversary Celebration
Monday, September 19, 2022
Reception & Dinner: 6:00-8:30 PM, The Horseshoe Garden
Cordials & Coffee: 8:30 PM, The Lobby Lounge
Business to semi-formal attire preferred
| 8:30 AM-5:00 PM | Board of Directors Meeting |
| 8:30 AM-5:00 PM | Technical Committee Meeting |
| 8:30 AM-12:00 PM | Cooling Water Fouling Task Force Meeting |
| 1:00 PM-5:00 PM | Air Cooler Task Force Meeting |
| Time | Subject | Presenter(s) |
| 8:30-10:00 | Annual Meeting of Stockholders | |
| 10:30-11:15 | Research program updates | Salem Bouhairie, Aaron Smith |
| 11:15-12:00 | 60 years of software development | David Gibbons |
| 13:00-13:30 | Crude oil fouling modeling: Collaborating with ENNOVA LLC and Rice University | Aaron Smith |
| 13:30-14:00 | Overview of CFD tools for predicting kettle behavior | Kevin Farrell |
| 14:00-14:30 | Improvements to HTRI kettle circulation model | LiDong Huang |
| 15:00-17:00 | Panel session: The future of kettles
| Tom Lestina, Ray Tucker, Richard Lorenzo, Kevin Farrell, LiDong Huang |
| 18:00-20:30 | 60th Anniversary Celebration Reception and Dinner | |
| 20:30-22:00 | Cordials & Coffee |
| Time | Subject | Presenter(s) |
| 8:30-9:00 | Hook up with HTRIconnect™ | Fred Hendrix |
| 9:00-9:30 | Lessons learned: Implementing electric heater option in Xchanger Suite® | Ashley Simmons |
| 9:30-10:00 | Digital transformation of heat exchanger network management using HTRI SmartPM™ | Simon Pugh |
| 10:30-11:00 | Introduction to surface energy | Aaron Smith |
| 11:00-11:30 | Using neural networks for predicting Nusselt number for intube laminar flow | Parimah Kazemi |
| 11:30-12:00 | Xchanger Suite® 9.1 | Joe Holmes |
| 13:00-13:30 | Air-cooler performance with chimneys | Salem Bouhairie |
| 13:30-14:00 | HTRI's new research rig: Scaled-down Air-cooled Unit (SACU) | Brandon White |
| 14:00-14:30 | Design heat exchangers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions: Exchanger Optimizer solution | Frank Ashley |
| 15:00-15:30 | CFD study of Air-cooler (ACU) geometry in forced-draft operation with blockages and wind | Syed Haq |
| 15:30-16:00 | A fresh look at surface roughness | Emmanuel Hitimana |
| 16:00-18:00 | Poster & Demo Session | |
| Posters | ||
| - Crude oil fouling modeling: Collaborating with ENNOVA LLC and Rice University | Aaron Smith | |
| - Overview of CFD tools for predicting kettle behavior | Kevin Farrell | |
| - Improvements to HTRI kettle circulation model | LiDong Huang | |
| - Introduction to surface energy | Aaron Smith | |
| - Using neural networks for predicting Nusselt number for intube laminar flow | Parimah Kazemi | |
| - Test plans of the cooling water fouling project | Lance Bishop | |
| - Air-cooler performance with chimneys | Salem Bouhairie | |
| - HTRI's new research rig: Scaled-down Air-cooled Unit (SACU) | Brandon White | |
| - Air-cooler performance enhancements developed with RAPID | Tom Lestina | |
| - CFD study of Air-cooler (ACU) geometry in forced-draft operation with blockages and wind | Syed Haq | |
| - A fresh look at surface roughness | Emmanuel Hitimana | |
| - Reducing heat exchanger fouling with vapor infusion | Mike Radicone | |
| - Lessons learned: Implementing electric heater option in Xchanger Suite® | Ashley Simmons | |
| 8:30 AM-5:00 PM | Crude Oil Fouling Task Force Meeting |
| 8:30 AM-5:00 PM | Training: Condensers Short Course |
| 8:30 AM-5:00 PM | Thermosiphon Reboilers Short Course |