Strategies for a Changing Downstream Environment

For eleven years, Hydrocarbon Processing's International Refining and Petrochemical Conference (IRPC) has been the leading downstream technology event.  For 2019, IRPC Americas will be held in Houston, Texas on September 25-26 at Crowne Plaza, near NRG.

The two-day conference and exhibition will provide a high-level technical forum in which key players in the petrochemical and refinery sector will meet to share knowledge and learn about best practices and the latest industry advances.  The conference also serves as an ideal venue for HPI professionals to network with their peers from across the Americas.

• Digitalization of the refinery/plant
• Fuels of the future
• IMO sulfur regulations
• Emerging technologies in the refining and petrochemical sectors
• Heavy oil/bottom-of-the-barrel
• Catalysts (traditional vs. emerging industries, heavy feedstocks effect on catalysts, etc)
• Feedstocks
• Process control and instrumentation
• Filtration/separation
• Maintenance/reliability
• Safety/environment
• Water management
• Energy efficiency/process-plant optimization
• Rise in the integration of refining and petrochemical operations
• Clean fuels/biofuels
• Policy and regulations
• Refinery and plant economics