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KAUST Research Conference 2023

October 23-25, 2023
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  • Monday

    October 23
  • Tuesday

    October 24
  • Wednesday

    October 25
Registration, Welcome Coffee and Networking
12:00 PM

Venue: KAUST Building 20 Front Desk

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KAUST CORELAB AND KCC TOUR
01:30 PM

Venue: KAUST Building 20 Front Desk

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Welcome Reception (by invitation only)
07:00 PM

Venue: Al Khozama Hotel

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Registration & Breakfast
07:15 AM

Venue: KAUST Building 20 Front Desk & Lobby

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Welcome Remarks
08:00 AM

Venue: KAUST Building 20 Auditorium

PIERRE MAGISTRETTI

Vice President Research, KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (KAUST)

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Ministerial Address
08:15 AM
MOHAMMED AL-KHRASHI

Deputy Minister for Companies and Reservations Affairs, MINISTRY OF ENERGY (MoE)

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Keynote Session: Title1
08:30 AM
GERARD M. DE NAZELLE

Director of Research & Development, SAUDI ARAMCO

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Keynote Session: Novel Approach to Conversion of Crude Oil and Condensates to Chemicals
09:00 AM
UJJAL K. MUKHERJEE

Chief Technology Officer, LUMMUS TECHNOLOGY

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Keynote Session: Enabling innovation to advance COTC technology development in KSA
09:30 AM
ABDULAZIZ ALMUHAIDIB

General Director, Innovation & Development, MINISTRY OF ENERGY (MoE)

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Technical Session: Bringing Crude to Chemicals Complex to Achieve Net Zero
10:00 AM
MARIE-AMELIE LAMBERT

RDS, FCC & Sweetening Product Line Manager, AXENS

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Coffee Break
10:30 AM

Venue: KAUST Building 20 Lobby

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Technical Session: Catalyzing Oil-to-Chemicals maximization through FCC catalyst and process technology
10:45 AM
HERNANDO SALGADO

Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) Technical Service Engineer, BASF REFINING CATALYST

GUILLAUME VINCENT

Technology Manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa, BASF REFINING CATALYST

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Technical Session: Superior Catalysts for the Conversion of Crude Oil into Useful Molecules
11:15 AM
JAVIER GARCIA MARTINEZ

Professor, UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE

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Technical Session: Study of Effects and Countermeasures of Crude Oil Cracking Process on Acetylene and MAPD Selective Hydrogenation Catalysts
11:45 AM
GUOBIN WEI

Expert, SINOPEC BEIJING RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY (BRICI)

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Lunch
12:15 PM

Venue: KAUST CAMPUS Dinner

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Technical Session: Enhancing Sustainability Through Decarbonization
02:00 PM
PETER KUZMA

Senior Technology Director, LUMMUS TECHNOLOGY

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Technical Session: One step conversion of crude oil to chemicals using a multi-zone reactor
02:30 PM
JORGE GASCON

Chair, Director of the KAUST CATALYSIS CENTER, KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (KAUST)

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Technical Session: Enabling the Saudi Vision 2030 to double the size of the KSA chemical industry by contributing downstream process technology and catalysts through partnerships
03:00 PM
HELEN HILL

MEA Strategy Manager, JOHNSON MATTHEY

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Technical Session: Operando modelling of zeolite catalysed hydrocarbon formation and conversion processes
03:30 PM
VERONIQUE VAN SPEYBROECK

Professor and Head of the Center for Molecular Modeling, GHENT UNIVERSITY

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Coffee Break
04:00 PM

Venue: KAUST Building 20 Lobby

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Technical Session: Novel Mesoporous Zeolites Containing Silica-Alumina Core-Shell Composite for Light Crude Oil Conversion to Chemicals
04:15 PM
ZIYAUDDIN S. QURESHI

Research Scientist, KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM & MINERALS (KFUPM)

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Technical Session: Rational design of zeolite-based catalysts for processes of industrial interest
04:45 PM
CRISTINA MARTÍNEZ

Tenured Researcher, INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGÍA QUÍMICA (ITQ), UPV-CISC

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Technical Session: Mesoporised Zeolites towards a Sustainable Future
05:15 PM
KURT DU MONG

Chief Executive Officer, ZEOPORE TECHNOLOGIES

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Gala Dinner (by invitation only)
07:00 PM

Venue: Al Khozama Hotel

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Keynote Session: Integrated Olefin Suite: The New Benchmark Performance for Crude to Olefins
08:00 AM
ANDREA BOZZANO

Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, HONEYWELL-UOP

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Keynote Session: Crude Oil to Chemicals - Key issues on the interaction between technology selection and market opportunity
08:30 AM
HENSMAN ALASTAIR

Senior Vice President, NEXANTECA, THE ENERGY & CHEMICALS ADVISORY COMPANY

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Technical Session: MICROKINETIC-BASED MODELLING OF CRUDE TO OLEFINS
09:00 AM
GUY B. MARIN

Professor in Chemical Reaction Engineering, GHENT UNIVERSITY

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Technical Session: Accelerated Development of a Flexible Crude to Chemicals & Fuels Technology
09:30 AM
SCOTT GOLCZYNSKI

Manager of R&D – FCC Technology | Process & Technology, TECHNIP ENERGIES USA

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Coffee Break
10:00 AM

Venue: KAUST Building 20 Lobby

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Executive Panel Discussion
10:15 AM
JORGE GASCON

Chair, Director of the KAUST CATALYSIS CENTER, KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (KAUST)

BASHIR DABBOUSI

Director of Technology Strategy & Planning, SAUDI ARAMCO

ANDREA BOZZANO

Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, HONEYWELL-UOP

UDO HUENGER

Vice President Market Area Middle East & Egypt, BASF

ATIAH AL-GHAMDI

Consultant for the Petrochemical Dept, MINISTRY OF ENERGY (MoE)

SHI SHOU

Senior Engineer of SINOPEC RIPP (Research Institute of Petroleum Processing)

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Lunch
12:15 PM

Venue: KAUST CAMPUS Dinner

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Technical Session: TC2C™ - The Future of Refining - Increasing crude conversion to chemicals
02:00 PM
PEDRO SANTOS

Technology Director, CHEVRON LUMMUS GLOBAL

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Technical Session: Crude to chemicals: the old challenges and the new opportunities
02:30 PM
KHALID ALMAJNOUNI

Chair, Research Science Consultant, SAUDI ARAMCO

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Technical Session: Tailoring Zeolites Properties for Separation Processes
03:00 PM
SUSANA VALENCIA

Research Scientist, INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGÍA QUÍMICA (ITQ), POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA

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Technical Session: OCC Process for Propylene and Ethylene Production
03:30 PM
JIAWEI TENG

Deputy Chief Engineer, SINOPEC - SHANGHAI RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROCHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY (SRIPT)

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Closing Remarks
04:00 PM
JORGE GASCON

Chair, Director of the KAUST CATALYSIS CENTER, KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (KAUST)

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LEWAS GRWx: Keynote: Understanding Bias: What makes us think and act the way we do?
04:15 PM
Dr. JENNIFER SHEPARD

Diversity and Inclusion Specialist, Aramco

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LEWAS GRWx : Panel Discussion
05:00 PM
SARA AL-OTAIBI

Lead of Strategic Partnerships KAUST

ClAUDIA JANSE VAN RENSBURG

Account Manager, ART Hydroprocessing

HELEN HILL

MEA Strategy Manager, JOHNSON MATTHEY

SAMAR ALDHAHRY

Senior specialist, Ministry of Energy(MoE)

CRISTINA MARTÍNEZ

Tenured Researcher, INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGÍA QUÍMICA (ITQ), UPV-CISC

JORGE GASCON

Chair, Director of the KAUST CATALYSIS CENTER, KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (KAUST)

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Polymer Synthesis Laboratory (Prof. Hadjichristidis)

Computational Chemistry Laboratory (Prof. Cavallo)

Advanced Catalytic Materials (Prof. Gascon)

Functional Nanomaterials Laboratory (Prof. Bakr)

Multiscale Reaction Engineering (Prof. Castaño)

The Inorganic Materials and Reactions Group (Prof. Kobayashi)

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