PERF

77th PERF meeting: WATER MANAGEMENT
February 26-29, 2008

Location

Antwerp, Belgium

INTRODUCTION

The Winter 2008 PERF Meeting was hosted by VITO in Antwerp, Belgium. The theme was "Water Management", one of the focus area for Vito's environmental technology program. About 40 people attended the meeting from all over the world. Most of them were representatives from the oil industry, consulting firms, research institutes or laboratories.

The Board of directors met on February 26. The technical meeting started on February 27 with a morning and early afternoon technical session at the Hotel Park Plaza Astrid Antwerp. On February 28, there were additional technical presentations and roundtable discussions on Upstream and Downstream topic with several experts. Business items (status report and project proposals) took place on February 27 as well. The meeting finished on February 28 with a visit of VITO facilities and current research.

 

 AGENDA

You can download the agenda of the meeting by clicking here.

 

UPSTREAM DISCUSSION GROUP

The discussion group was led by Jill Kerr, Exxonmobil. The meeting was primarily a brainstorming session among the attendees about the research topics or points of interest or concern. The list of hot topics was updated to this one: Flaring, freshwater use/conservation/reuse/recycle, marine noise/seismic noise impact on marine mammals, cleanup of oil spills in ice/slush, climate change, deep water issues, zero discharge.

 

DOWNSTREAM DISCUSSION GROUP

The Downstream Discussion group was led by Dave Fashimpaur, BP. The main objective was to brainstorm a list of Top Environmental Technical Challenges. Items discussed during the downstream discussion group were:

• Mercury partitioning in refineries – How much goes to water, air, etc, in what form and through what pathways. Consider adding lead and other priority metals.

• Benzene, Naphthalene, 1,3-butadiene – ambient monitoring for residual risk.

  0. -next generation VOC sensors (low-cost wireless network) BP/QUESTOR proposal
  0. -novel techniques for sensing BTEX (<5ppb) ExxonMobil/QUESTOR proposal

• Membrane fouling sensors

  0. Potential for evaluating VITO Sensor as part of ExxonMobil proposed MBR Project

• ACT – Bioclean Technology

  0. -low biomass treatment technology
• Metals removal technologies

• Improved atmospheric dispersion models

  0. -PERF air cooperative project proposal

• PM 2.5/10 stack monitoring methods

  0. –there is an API study currently underway to evaluate methods

Items 1 and 5 seem to be tied together or at least proceed as parallel projects. There was quite a bit of interest in this topic moving forward as a project proposal from both US and EU perspectives.

 

PROJECT PROPOSALS

There were three new proposals. If you are interested in joining a project, please contact the sponsors. The presentation will be soon available

· 2008-01: “Next Generation Optical Sensors for Gas & Vapor Detection”. Dave Fashimpaur, BP. Click here to see the presentation.

· 2008-02: “Novel Technics for Sensing Btex". Chad Shockley, ExxonMobil. Click here to open the updated summary of this project proposal.

· 2008-03: “Produced Water Technology Treatment Options” . James Robinson, BP. Click here to open the updated presentation of this project proposal.

 

CONTACTS

For additional information, please contact Ludo Diels at ludo.diels@vito.be , or contat PERF webmaster.

 

PRESENTATIONS

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