Register now for the Industrial Combustion Symposium by American Flame Research Committee Sept 15-Sept 17, 2025

Day 1 Agenda

7:00 am

Registration Open

8:00 am – 8:30 am

Opening Remarks

8:30 am – 12:00 pm

Day 1: Morning Presentations

1. Hydrogen Operational Safety in Unclassified Industrial Spaces
   Presented by: Mukul Tomar, GTI Energy
2. Development and Performance Assessment of a Pilot Unit for the Entrained Flow Gasification of Low-grade Feedstock
   Presented by: Felipe Campuzano Diosa, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
3. Burner Design Optimization for Steam-methane Reforming
   Presented by: Dave Schalles, Bloom Engineering Co. Inc.
4. Ammonia Flaring and the Effects of Hydrogen Enrichment in Ammonia Mixtures
   Presented by: Clay Anderson, Zeeco, Inc.
5. Evaluation of Co-firing Ammonia with Natural Gas in a Refractory Lined Burner Test Facility for Application to a Batch Annealing Furnace
   Presented by: Dr. Hong-Shig Shim, Reaction Engineering International
6. Industrial Ammonia Burner and Modeling Capability Development
   Presented by: Aloke Sarkar, ExxonMobil

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Lunch

1:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Day 1: Afternoon Presentations

7. Increase Fired Heater Capacity and Reduce NOx Emissions Using Xceed™ Technology
   Presented by: Robert Ezelle, ExxonMobil
8. The All Too Common Disconnect Between Heater Design, Instrumentation, DCS Logic and Operator Response
   Presented by: Walter Gull, Birwelco USA/ BIH
9. Ultra-low NOx Combustion Retrofit of Heavy Crude Oil Heater
   Presented by: Mark Hannum, Fives North American Combustion, Inc
10. Next-generation Burner Implementation in a Retrofitted Crude Heater: Lessons in Capacity Expansion and NOₓ Reduction
    Presented by: Matt Martin, ClearSign Technologies Corporation
11. Unsupervised Naturally Aspirated Pilot Experiences
    Presented by: Ty Keeth, Zeeco, Inc.
12. Practical Application of an Efficient 2 ppm NOx Burner in a Fired Heater
    Presented by: Matthew Martin, ClearSign Technologies Corporation

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

AFRC Business Meeting

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Symposium Dinner

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

7:30 am

Registration Open

8:30 am – 12:00 pm

Day 2: Morning Presentations

13. Adaptive Low Temperature Oxyfuel Burner for Enhanced Efficiency and Reduced NOx Emissions in Non-ferrous Melting
    Presented by: Brenno Ferreira, Linde
14. Compact Portable Combustors for Pipeline and Equipment Blowdown
    Presented by: Parthib Rao, Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc
15. CFD Modeling of Burner Retrofits for Hydrogen Fuel and Oxygen Enrichment in a Reheating Furnace
    Presented by: Nicholas Walla, Purdue University Northwest
16. Dynamics of a Liquid Seal
    Presented by: Madi Muse, John Zink Company
17. Flare Header Consolidation: A Risk Survey
    Presented by: Caitlyn Slattery, John Zink Company
18. Numerical Simulations and Experimental Validation of Swiss-roll Combustor Using Coupled 3D CFD, CHT and Combustion Chemistry
    Presented by: Zubin Mistry, Convergent Science

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Lunch

1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Day 2: Afternoon Presentations

18. Case Studies of Thermoacoustic Vibration in Sulfur Recovery Unit Reaction Furnaces
    Presented by: Louis R. Pasnik, Becht
19. Why CO Boilers Have So Many Operating Problems
    Presented by: Sidharth Garg, Furnace Improvements
20. Mitigating Methane Emissions from Industrial and Large Commercial End Use Equipment
    Presented by: Mukul Tomar, GTI Energy
21. Prediction of Methane Destructive Efficiency of a Gas Flare using CFD with Adaptive Mesh Refinement and Detailed Chemistry
    Presented by: Zubin Mistry, Convergent Science
22. CFD Based Evaluation of Start-Up Operation in an Ethane Pyrolysis Furnace to Mitigate Potential of Forming Unburned Explosive Mixtures
    Presented by: Marc Cremer, Reaction Engineering International

Closing Remarks

Presented by: Dave Schalles, Bloom Engineering Co. Inc. and Jamal Jamaluddin