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Fugitive Emissions Summit Americas 2025
Fugitive Emissions Summit Americas 2025, held at San Jacinto College’ s
LyondellBasell Center for
Petrochemical,
Energy, and Technology in Pasadena, TX, on April 2 nd and 3 rd, successfully gathered a community of end users, EPCs, distributors, manufacturers, and suppliers dedicated to improving workplace practices, in efforts to reduce the environmental damage caused by industrial emissions.
By KCI Editorial
The two-day event provided a meeting point for a range of professionals, who capitalised on the opportunity to speak with one another and share the latest innovations for monitoring and mitigating emissions. The conference and exhibition were attended by more than 200 participants from several industrial disciplines, including HSE professionals, design engineers, carbon engineers and many more. The event consisted of several high-quality keynotes, panel discussions, informative workshops and an expo hall where visitors and vendors alike were able to network and talk shop, all of which provided time for learning, reconnecting and forming new business connections.
A dynamic conference
Day One of the conference commenced with a Chairman’ s welcome by Dave Anderson, Score Group, who set the terms and the tone of the event— highlighting the motivations, actions, attitude to regulations and need for collaboration that marks our moment. This was followed by a stirring keynote from Dana Wood, Energy Overwatch, who discussed the need for us to move from an attitude of‘ find and fix’ to‘ prevent and eliminate’.
Following the keynote presentations and a short coffee break, the morning session continued with an exciting panel discussion surrounding the topic of Best Available Technologies, moderated by Dave Anderson, Score Group. On the panel was Brad Allen, Teadit; Kevin Moses, LDARTools; Foster Voelker II, Williams Valve; Chris Kennell, Oxford Flow; and Ron Frisard, A. W. Chesterton. After an excellent working lunch, visitors were treated to hands-on demonstrations on the expo floor. These included demonstrations of bolted joints, as well as gasket and packing installations. For the afternoon sessions, participants had the opportunity to choose between two workshops: Leak Detection and Repair( LDAR) or New Technologies. The LDAR session began with Dave Anderson’ s presentation on the automated detection and minimisation of flaring and venting. James Bernard, Bray, followed this up with his stimulating discussion on optimising test parameters for rotary valve emissions. Finally, Ron Frisard, A. W. Chesterton, rounded off the session talking about tackling packing friction. In the New Technology session, Bob Connal, Hybrid Automation, kicked things off with a presentation on methane mitigation from gaspowered pneumatic devices. Alice Shao, Emerson, educated the conference on Reducing Fugitive
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