Program

Agenda

GMT / UTC +3

Monday,

02.06.
2025

LDPE Plant Improvement Conference

from 10:00 am to 06:00 pm

Conference (Hybrid)

Tuesday,

03.06.
2025

LDPE Plant Improvement Conference

from 10:00 am to 06:00 pm

Conference (Hybrid)

Presentations

Titel
Welcome and market news	Waldemar Hiller	Uhde High Pressure Technologies
Practical challenges and solutions for successful turnaround of high-pressure plants	Konstantinos Nalpantidis	Uhde High Pressure Technologies
Steel grades for pressure-retaining LDPE components: alloying concepts - properties - equivalent materials	Christoph Schmitt	Uhde High Pressure Technologies
Eleminating the trouble makers: Revamp of underperforming hp valves	Wolf Stützer	Uhde High Pressure Technologies
Impacts of valve failures on hyper compressors	Christian Hoffrogge	Prognost
Towards Peroxide Cocktail Design: Calorimetric Investigation on Peroxide Cocktails and their Performance in the High-Pressure Polyethylene Process	Sandra Pietrasch	Darmstadt	Svenja Albus	Darmstadt
Investigation of Decomposition and Relief Scenarios in High-Pressure Systems	Daniel Dyck	Darmstadt
An improved design of nitrogen purge and packing systems to improve safety and predictability for primary LDPE compressors.	Hervé Ferraris	Hoerbiger	Pelin Süalp	Hoerbiger
Effects of decompositions on material integrity of LDPE high-pressure tubes	Fabian Pöhl	Uhde High Pressure Technologies
New investments to improve the delivery of high pressure LDPE parts and services	Luc van Loon	CTD	Charles van Loon	CTD

Last Year Topics

Introducing hybrid reactor technology – first successful implementation
Trends in Lupotech High Pressure Technology Licensing
Successful project execution: engineering, procurement and contracting stragegies
Hydraulic oil system revamp after 40 years of operation
Corrosion mechanisms in jacketed high pressure tubes and appropriate counter measures
Significant advancements in bearing performance - CEROBEAR hybrid ceramic bearings at South Korean high pressure autoclave plants
Ideal configuration of a catalyst pump system for new plants and revamps
Investigation of individual peroxide decomposition kinetics in cocktails under relevant process conditions
The power of sound speed measurement
Micro injection set-up for high-pressure polymerization of delicate monomers
Challenges of Valve Monitoring on Hyper Compressors
Hypercompressor Production Line Expansion to follow market evolutionary needs
Compressor system survey and assessment
Fatigue, major cause of catastrophic failure of hyper compressor cylinder components
Solar energy boom and EVA growth scenarios: Real trend overtaking growth in traditional markets
Safety quenching systems for LDPE/EVA high pressure technologies
The challenges of a blow down valve replacement: A case study
Limited space – alternative layouts for catalyst pumps
Production improvement with implementation of pneumatic conveying technology FLUIDLIFT ecoblue® in LDPE Plant
ECI Group’s Hybrid Reactor Technology – Revolutionising HPPE Production
Decomposition in cold gas injection lines
Combined deflagration and ventilation investigations under process conditions
Retrofit of homogenization extruders - chance and risk
Failure of hyper compressor coupling Elimination of impulse lines
Comprehensive and sustainable vibration remediation of a knock-out drum in a high-pressure LDPE plant
Dynamic versus static reactor piping support design – a contradiction?
Dynamic Pipe Supports - On-site handling of numerical uncertainties
Implementation of new monomers into the high-pressure process
Lummus-Sumitomo LDPE/EVA
A world of high pressure polyethylene beyond LDPE and EVA
The Plant Improvement Alliance: Total plant health check approach
Dynamic aspects on foundation of hyper compressors
Energy-savings and emission reductions on existing LDPE compressors
Manufacturing capacity and Digital technology to boost LDPE/EVA industry
Introducing the next level of machine data analysis and failure prediction
Performance of Peroxide Cocktails in the High-Pressure Polyethylene Process and Investigation of their Decomposition Kinetics
Safety-Related Investigation of Decomposition and Relief Processes
Advances on state-of-health methodology for high pressure tubes
Safe and fast response temperature measurement under highest pressure
Improvements and internal guidelines for process interlocks - hppe plants
Regular health check for catalyst pump’s optimal uptime
Strategies to avoid dome overflow at devo extruders
Conveying and logistics concepts for LDPE and LDPE/EVA
Situation of aging LDPE plants in Japan requiring special service initiatives
Partial replacement of catalyst pump with state-of-the-art components
The Plant Improvement Alliance: Cooperation case study on tubular reactor and let down valve improvement
Investigation of the Transfer Activity in the High-Pressure Polyethylene Process
Sustainable process performance improvement via polymer APC for LDPE/EVA
UHPT's approach for high pressure plant turnaround support
Severe central valve damages after modifying a tubular reactor to an intercooler
100,000 cycle test of a high pressure control valve
Better be safe! The latest developments and findings on the long-term stability of high-pressure rupture discs.
Hyper compressor solid carbide plunger reconditioning strategies
Unveiling Compressor Challenges and Process Inconsistencies through Non-Intrusive Flow Measurement Technology
Cleaning of the tubular reactor