Program

15:00 – 16:30 Registration (tea and coffee available)
16:30 – 17:00 Welcome and Opening Address
SESSION 1: INTRODUCTION
17:00 – 17:25 LESSONS LEARNED FROM TWO DECADES OF RESEARCH ON CRUDE OIL FOULING AND ITS MITIGATION THROUGH ANTI-FOULING COATINGS AND ENHANCED HEAT TRANSFER SURFACES
17:25 – 17:50 CONVERTING A PHYSICAL EXPERIMENT INTO A DIGITAL EXPERIMENT FOR CHEESE WHEY FOULING OF A PLATE HEAT EXCHANGER
17:50 – 18:15 IN-SITU FOULING MONITORING WITH A QUARTZ CRYSTAL MICROBALANCE DURING EMULSION POLYMERIZATION IN A FLOW CHANNEL
18:15 – 18:40 CALCULATING DIFFUSIVE CLEANING RATES: SOLVING THE GRAETZ PROBLEM WITH AXIAL DIFFUSION
19:00 – 22:30 Dinner (followed by social hour)
7:00 – 9:00Breakfast
 SESSION 2: FOULING IN HYDROCARBON SYSTEMS
9:00 – 9:25APPLICATION STUDY of TITANIUM WELDED PLATE-BLOCK HEAT EXCHANGER in CRUDE
DISTILLATION UNIT
9:25 – 9:50COMPARATIVE STUDY OF STEAM CRACKER YIELDS AND FOULING BEHAVIOR OF PLASTIC
WASTE PYROLYSIS OILS AND FOSSIL NAPHTHA
9:50 – 10:15EVIDENCE OF ASPHALTENE PRECURSOR GENERATION
10:15 – 10:40TRANSFORMING REFINERY THERMAL PERFORMANCE: A DIGITAL TWIN APPROACH FOR HEAT
EXCHANGERS AND FIRED HEATERS
10:40 – 11:10Coffee
 SESSION 3: CRYSTALLIZATION FOULING (PART 1)
11:10 – 11:35INVESTIGATING FOULING LAYER MORPHOLOGY TO DESCRIBE ITS EFFECT ON HEAT
TRANSFER
11:35 – 12:00EFFECTS OF INTERMITTENT OPERATION ON CRYSTALLIZATION FOULING IN FALLING FILM
EVAPORATORS
12:00 – 12:25MITIGATION OF CALCIUM SULFATE CRYSTALLIZATION FOULING IN A CORRUGATED TUBE BY
SUPERIMPOSED OSCILLATORY FLOW IN LAMINAR REGIME
12:25 – 12:50CALCIUM SULFATE CRYSTALLIZATION FOULING IN AQUEOUS POLYOL SOLUTIONS: KINETIC AND MECHANISTIC
INSIGHTS
13:00 – 14:15Lunch
14:15 – 15:30Networking and recreation
15:30 – 16:00Coffee
 SESSION 4: CRYSTALLIZATION FOULING (PART 2)
16:00 – 16:25FOULING AND CLEANING VISUALISATION IN A MODEL PLATE HEAT EXCHANGER
16:25 – 16:50FOULING DUE TO FROST IN CROSS-FLOW AIR-TO-AIR HEAT EXCHANGERS: PART I –
CONSTANT MASS FLOW RATE
16:50 – 17:15THE BULK SUPERSATURATION MYTH
 SESSION 5: POSTER SESSION
17:00 – 18:30Poster pitch and poster session
FOULING CHALLENGES DURING HEAT TREATMENT OF PLANT-BASED MILK SUBSTITUTES

MITIGATION OF FOULING IN SINGLE PHASE HEAT EXCHANGERS

FOULING DUE TO FROST IN CROSS-FLOW AIR-TO-AIR HEAT EXCHANGERS: PART II – CONSTANT PRESSURE DROP &
TEMPORAL VARIATIONS

DEFINING CLEANING COMPLETION: VALIDATING MECHANICAL AND CHEMICAL CLEANING BEYOND CONVENTIONAL
METRICS

EXPLORING COOLING WATER FOULING FUNDAMENTALS WITH A MOBILE TEST RIG

BIOFILMS AND THE CHLORINE PROBLEM

COMBATING BIOFOULING WITH AN IMMOBILIZED BIOCIDE SYSTEM
19:00 – 22:30Dinner (followed by social hour)
7:00 – 9:00 Breakfast
SESSION 6: INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS
9:00 – 9:25 DIGITAL TWIN–BASED EVALUATION OF FOULING IN A RISING FILM EVAPORATOR USING PLANT OPERATING DATA
9:25 – 9:50 CHEMICALLY INFUSED NANOBUBBLES FOR MITIGATING HEAT EXCHANGER FOULING
9:50 – 10:15 FOULING AND DESIGN OF SHELL-AND-TUBE HEAT EXCHANGERS
10:15 – 10:40 DIGITAL TWINS FOR MAINTENANCE DECISION PLANNING AND SUPPORT IN TURNAROUNDS AND PIT STOPS
10:40 – 11:10 Coffee
SESSION 7: PERFORMANCE MONITORING (PART 1)
Chair: Dr. Marc Mauermann
11:10 – 11:35 A SIMULATION OF MULTIPLANE ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHIC FOULING DETECTION IN DIRECT STEAM INJECTION DURING DAIRY
11:35 – 12:00 FROM GRAYSCALE TO SENSORS – A COMBINED MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH WITH EXPERIMENTAL AND INDUSTRIAL DATA FOR CLASSIFICATION OF CLEANING MECHANISMS IN FOOD PROCESSING
12:00 – 12:25 CALIBRATION OF A NOVEL SETUP FOR WATER FOULING MEASUREMENTS
12:25 – 12:50 DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A THERMORESISTIVE SENSOR FOR FOULING DETECTION: EXPERIMENTAL AND CFD MODELING APPROACHES
13:00 – 14:15 Lunch
14:15 Conference excursion
19:00 – 22:30 Dinner (followed by social hour)
7:00 – 9:00 Breakfast
SESSION 8: FOULING IN FOOD PROCESSING
9:00 – 9:25 DAIRY FOULING SEVERITY ASSESSMENT BASED ON DEPOSIT GROWTH AND CLEANING PERFORMANCE USING IMAGING AND CLEANING FORCE
9:25 – 9:50 EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION OF MILK FOULING IN RELATION TO CLEANING EXPERIMENTS ON LABORATORY SCALE
9:50 – 10:15 FOULING REDUCTION IN THERMAL PRODUCT PROCESSING FOR OAT DRINK PRODUCTION
10:15 – 10:40 FOULING AND CLEANING OF MILK AND PLANT BASED DRINKS
10:40 – 11:10 Coffee
SESSION 9: MODELLING AND SIMULATION (PART 1)
11:10 – 11:35 PREDICTIVE MODELLING OF WHEY PROTEIN FOULING AND CLEANING IN PLATE HEAT EXCHANGERS
11:35 – 12:00 FOULING INVESTIGATIONS WITH A DATA-DRIVEN MODELING APPROACH IN A MICRO-STRUCUTRED HEAT EXCHANGER
12:00 – 12:25 A CFD-APPROACH FOR PREDICTING THERMALLY-DRIVEN FOULING LAYER GROWTH IN MICRO-CHANNELS
12:25 – 12:50 DYNAMIC FOULING MODELLING IN MILK POWDER MANUFACTURING: ENERGY PERFORMANCE AND SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT
13:00 – 14:15 Lunch
14:15 – 15:30 Networking and recreation
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee
SESSION 10: MODELLING AND SIMULATION (PART 2)
16:00 – 16:25 NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF NON-UNIFORM FLOW IN SHELL-AND-TUBE HEAT EXCHANGERS AND THEIR PRACTICAL VALIDATION
16:25 – 16:50 ONE-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL MODEL FOR SIMULTANEOUS SWELLING AND DISSOLUTION OF FILM-LIKE SOILS WITH INTEGRATION OF SOIL THICKNESS CHANGES
SESSION 11: NUMERICAL APPROACHES
16:50 – 17:15 CRYSTALLIZATION FOULING NUCLEATION: MOLECULAR DYNAMICS, COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS AND CRYSTAL GROWTH EXPERIMENTS
17:15 – 17:40 INFLUENCE OF INORGANIC COMPOUNDS ON FOULING: A PREDICTIVE MODEL
17:40 – 18:05 PREDICTING FOULING IN AN INDUSTRIAL DAIRY PLANT USING MACHINE LEARNING
19:00 – 22:30 Dinner (followed by social hour)
7:00 – 9:00 Breakfast
SESSION 12: INDUSTRIAL CLEANING
8:35 – 9:00 ONLINE EXTERNAL CLEANING SYSTEM FOR ACHE
9:00 – 9:25 DRIVING PREDICTABLE AND OPTIMIZED HEAT EXCHANGER PERFORMANCE THROUGH AUTOMATED TUBE CLEANING
9:25 – 9:50 EFFECT OF SURFACE WETTING ON SULPHUR DISSOLUTION KINETICS
9:50 – 10:15 UNLOCKING TURNAROUND AND OPERATIONAL SAVINGS WITH ULTRASONIC CLEANING: A SIX-CASE STUDY
10:15 – 10:40 ULTRASONIC CLEANING OF HEAT EXCHANGERS – CURRENT AND NEW DEVELOPMENTS
10:40 – 11:10 Coffee
SESSION 13: CLEANING SCIENCE
11:10 – 11:35 OPTIMIZING WATER JETTING PARAMETERS FOR HEAT EXCHANGER CLEANING: BALANCING FOULING REMOVAL AND MATERIAL INTEGRITY
11:35 – 12:00 SIMULATION-BASED GEOMETRY OPTIMIZATION TO INCREASE CLEANING EFFICIENCY IN PIPES WITH 45-DEGREE BEND
12:00 – 12:25 DELIVERY OF ULTRASONIC CLEANING EFFECT INTO A HEAT EXCHANGER TUBE USING FOCUSED ACTUATION
12:25 – 12:50 TOWARDS IMPROVING SPRAY CLEANING WITH MODULATED JETS BY CONSIDERING GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS
13:00 – 14:15 Lunch
14:15 – 15:30 Networking and recreation
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee
SESSION 14: MODIFIED SURFACES
16:00 – 16:25 DOUBLE-PIPE UNIT MEASURING THE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF DLC COATINGS FOR HEAT EXCHANGER TUBES
16:25 – 16:50 COOLING WATER TEST RIG FOR TUBE SIDE SCALING FOULING – DEMONSTRATING FOULING MITIGATION CAPABILITIES OF LOW-FOULING STRUCTURES
16:50 – 17:15 DIMPLEFLO- BREAKTHROUGH FOULING MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY
17:15 – 17:40 EVALUATING THE ADHESION STRENGTH OF CRYSTALLINE DEPOSITS ON POLYMER COMPOSITE AND METAL TUBES USING A NOVEL FORCE-BASED TEST RIG
17:40 – 18:05 NANOENGINEERING SCALEPHOBIC SURFACES FOR LIQUID COOLING ENHANCEMENT
18:05 – 18:30 CONCLUDING REMARKS
19:30 – 22:30 CONFERENCE BANQUET (followed by social hour)
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