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Roundtable "The role of hydrogen in the new decarbonization scenarios"
 Caravaggio Room   6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Moderator - Paolo Mutti - Project Leader Hydrogen Innovation Report, Energy & Strategy - Politecnico di Milano

Omar Bedani - Manager of Commercial Operations Fired Heaters, Global hydrogen and Technology - Wood
Giacomo Lovino - Purchasing Group Leader & Category Manager - Maire Tecnimont
Michel Ronchini - Senior Manager Onshore/Offshore Piping and Valves - Technip Energies
Giovanni del Serrone - Director - Technip Energies
Paolo Carrera - New Energies Head of Commercial and Tendering - Saipem Spa
Jacopo Zanetti - Business Development Manager Hydrogen Energy - Air Liquide
David Greeson – Project Director – NRG Energy

THEME 1: ADVANCES IN SAFE VALVE DESIGN, MATERIALS, MANUFACTURING, COATINGS AND FOCUS ON ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
 Room 1 - First Floor   10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Moderator - Carlo de Bernardi - ConocoPhillips (USA)

a)  Selection and Application of Nickel Aluminium Bronze  Isolation Valves

Shiphamvalves – United Kingdom – Nick Grayy

b) Castings Production of Sdss with high wall thicknesses

Fondinox S.p.a. – Italy – Alberto Morini
Fondinox S.p.a. – Italy – Simone Volpi

c) A new algorithm for subcritical flow through surface choke in digital field calculations

Polytechnic of Milan – Italy – Giambattista De Ghetto
Valvitalia Spa  – Italy – Pierpaolo Mandolesi

d) Implications of Robotic Process Automation and Machine Learning: RFQ Process in Industrial Valve Market

Industrial Data Labs – USA – Martin Dytrych

e) Circular Economy in the O&G Industry for Additive Manufacturing of metal parts

F3nice and Valland Spa – Italy – Luisa Elena Mondora

THEME 2: VALVE ACTUATION AND CONTROL
 Room 2 - First Floor   10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Moderator - Umberto Navarra - Technip Energies Italy (Italy)

a) The integrated valve information device for emergency shutdown valve

Imtex controls - United Kingdom - Paul Turner
LGM Engineering - Italy - Andrea Gironi

b) The Convergence of IIoT, Data Analytics and Asset Integrity Management / Reliability in the Valve Industry

Score Group - United Kingdom - Dave Anderson

THEME 3: FUGITIVE EMISSIONS AND VALVE SEALING TECHNOLOGIES
 Colleoni Room - Ground Floor   10:30 am - 1:00 pm
Moderator - Christian Reynes - Total Energies (France)

a) A systematic approach for pre-validation of polymer spring-energised seals for critical valve applications

Omniseal Solutions – Belgium – Philippe Burlot

b) VICTREX CT™ Polymers for more Reliable Seals in Cryogenic Conditions

Victrex – Italy – Christian Salvatori

c) Emissions Elimination – Why "Reduce" Emissions when you can "Eliminate" them?

Score Group - United Kingdom - Dave Anderson

d) Valves role on environmental protection

Ved-Coemi – Italy – Nicolai Tasca

 
e) Semi-dynamic metal sealing: base theory and examples of valve applications

Technetics Group – France – Laurent Guimet

f) Comparative study between IOGP and ISO valve fugitive emissions requirements.

CETIM - France - E. Sauger, J. Leray
Total Energies - France - L. Deneuville

d) Valves role on environmental protection

Ved-Coemi – Italy –Raffaele Liberto

 
e) Semi dynamic metal sealing applications on valves

Technetics Group – France – Laurent.Guimet

Workshop : Polyurethane seals for the valve industries
 Caravaggio Room   11:00 am - 11:40 am

Istvan Robert Hajzer- Division Manager for SealFluid – FP-F.lli Paris Srl

Workshop : The new regulatory framework of the Low Emission Graphite Packings for Industrial Valves
 Caravaggio Room   11:40 am - 12:00 pm

Francesco Apuzzo - Chief Technical Officer - Carrara Spa

THEME 4: INNOVATION, EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES, AND FUTURE SCENARIOS
 Room 2 - First Floor   12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Moderator - Ron Merrick - Consultant, Retired from Fluor Enterprises (USA)  

a) Material Selection for Valves in H2 environment. An informative report

Valland S.p.a. – Italy – Alex Giorgini

b) Developed solutions for valves in different hydrogen applications

Dafram – Italy – Marco Sparisci

c) Flexible Graphite seals for Hydrogen applications

SGL Carbon GmbH - Germany - Roland Mittelhammer

THEME 5: INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS, SUPPLY SPECIFICATIONS, LEAN DOCUMENTATION MANAGEMENT AND REMOTE INSPECTION TECHNOLOGIES
 Colleoni Room - Ground Floor   1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Moderator - Brian Lade - Consultant, Suncor Energy (Canada)

a) Bio water-based liquid penetrants for  non destructive testings of valves’ quality

NDT Italiana – Italy – Michele Cevenini

b) How smart industrial companies can unlock productivity safety with augmented reality

Vmatch - The Netherlands - Richard Baars

c) API 20 series – Upstream Supply Chain Management

Studio Gamba – Italy – Massimiliano Gamba
Valvosider - Italy - Pierluigi Moretta

d) European and International standards for valve actuators

AUMA Italiana - Italy - Nicola Spreafico

e) Managing Supply Chain Quality Risks

Eni Spa - Massimo Sanso'

f) Use of the IEC-60870-5-104 protocol in the remote control and management of oil and gas plants, a real case

Ailux S.r.l. – Italy – Stefano Pini

Panel discussion - Additive manufacturing and digital inventory: dreams or reality for the energy sector
 Caravaggio Room   2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Moderator - Valeria Tirelli - President & Ceo - Aidro

Carlo De Bernardi - Additive Manufacturing Industry Lead - ConocoPhillips
Brede Laerum, Head of AM Centre of Excellence - Equinor
Angeline Goh - Digital Manager Supply Chain-Shell
Edwige Ravry- Additive Manufacturing Lead- TotalEnergies

Workshop: Advanced meshing techniques and their application on complex valve geometry components
 Caravaggio Room   10:30 am - 11:10 am

Giovanni Bettega – Chief Technical Officer- Solvo srl
Simone Mandelli – General Manager - Solvo Srl

Workshop : Case study on Valves Subcomponents
 Caravaggio Room   11:10 am - 11:50 am

Giovanni Bettega – Chief Technical Officer - Solvo Srl
Simone Mandelli – General Manager - Solvo Srl

Workshop: CCUS – Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage
 Caravaggio Room   12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
a) Workshop: CCUS – Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage: a practical guideline

David Greeson – President, Proven Project Development Group

 
b) Tenaris Products for Energy Transition

Stefano Crippa - Tenaris Product Manager -  Pipeline Technology Division

THEME 5: INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS, SUPPLY SPECIFICATIONS, LEAN DOCUMENTATION MANAGEMENT AND REMOTE INSPECTION TECHNOLOGIES
 Room 2 - First Floor   1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Moderator - Ugo Ormezzano - Tetra Technologies (Italy)

a) Saudi Aramco: Valves’ End User Experience

Aramco Europe, Italy Inspection - Hatim Allhamdan, Chief Office Representative

b) Product Life Cycle Management System Requirements for the Petroleum and Natural Gas Industries – API18LCM

Studio Gamba – Italy – Massimiliano Gamba
RMT VALVOMECCANICA SRL -Italy - Riccardo Zamboni

c) API 6D 25th edition, Specification for valves, main changes

Studio Gamba - Italy - Massimiliano Gamba

d) Mechanical components for functional safety applications (SIL): standardization urgently needed!

AUMA Riester GmbH & Co. KG - Germany - Joerg Isenberg

e) Product certification of equipment for oil & gas sector. Export to EACC countries, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, China, Uzbekistan

Sercons International – Italy, Russia – Valeria Vinogradova, Carlo Alberto Franco