ITALIAN ITALIAN ASSOCIATION ASSOCIATION OF OF INDUSTRIAL INDUSTRIAL PLANT PLANT ENGINEERING ENGINEERING ANIMP ANIMP MULTIPHASE MULTIPHASE FLOW FLOW ENGINEERING ENGINEERING SECTION SECTION MFIP13 13th International Conference MULTIPHASE FLOW IN INDUSTRIAL PLANTS CONFERENCE PROGRAM Fondazione Mediaterraneo Sestri Levante (Genova), Italy September 17-19, 2014 POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF GENOVA ITALIAN ASSOCIATION of CHEMICAL ENGINEERING MFIP13 Sestri Levante, Sept. 17-19, 2014 __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Sestri Levante (GE) – Baia del Silenzio- Fondazione Mediaterraneo SPONSORSHIP MFIP13 Sestri Levante, Sept. 17-19, 2014 __________________________________________________________________________________________________ CONFERENCE PROGRAM Tuesday - September 16th, 2014 18.00-19.00 19.00-19.30 Registration Opening Ceremony F.Ferrini Delegate Multiphase Flow Animp’s Section P.Gauna Member Animp’s of Council M.Pepori Member Animp’s of Council P.Perego Vice Dean Polytechinic School - University of Genova 19.30 Welcome Party Wednesday - September 17th, 2014 8.30-9.00 9.00-10.45 10.45-11.15 11.15-13.00 13.00-14.00 14.00-14.30 14.30-15.30 15.30-16.00 16.00-17.45 18.00-19.00 Registration Presentation Session 1 – Basic Studies in Multiphase Flow Coffee break Presentation Session 2 – Basic Studies in Multiphase Flow Lunch Invited Lecture Microscale heat transfer in two-phase flow Presentation Session 3 – Phase change and heat transfer in Multiphase Systems Coffee break Presentation Session 4 - Phase change and heat transfer in Multiphase Systems Meeting of ANIMP’s members Thursday - September 18th, 2014 8.30-9.00 9.00-9.30 Registration Invited Lecture 9.30-11.00 11.00-11.30 11.30-13.00 13.00-14.00 14.00-14.30 14.30-16.15 16.15-16.45 16.45-18.00 20.00 Presentation Coffee break Presentation Lunch Invited Lecture Presentation Coffee break Presentation Social Dinner Applications of Rans-Based Cfd Techniques to the Prediction of Multiphase Flows in Industrial Chemical Equipment Session 5 – Modelling and CFD in Multiphase Systems Session 6 – Modelling and CFD in Multiphase Systems Discrete particle simulation of complex particle-fluid flows in industrial systems Session 7 – Multiphase Chemical Reactors Session 8 – Fluid Dynamics of Solid-Fluid Suspensions Friday - September 19th, 2014 8.30-9.00 9.00-9.30 9.30-11.15 11.15-11.45 11.45-13.00 13.00-14.00 14.00-15.30 15.30-16.00 16.00-17.45 17.45-18.00 Registration Invited Lecture Presentation Coffee break Presentation Lunch Presentation Coffee break Presentation Clousure Complex particles in turbulence: modelling and computation Session 9 – Large Scale Multiphase Flow Session 10 – Basic Studies in Multiphase Flow Session 11 – Experimental Measurements and Techniques in Multiphase Flow Session 12 – Basic Studies in Multiphase Flow MFIP13 Sestri Levante, Sept. 17-19, 2014 __________________________________________________________________________________________________ MFIP13 Sestri Levante, Sept. 17-19, 2014 __________________________________________________________________________________________________ PROGRAM 17 Wednesday a.m. Session 1 – Basic Studies in Multiphase Flow ACOUSTIC STREAMING IN GAS-SOLID FLOW Valverde J.M., Duran-Olivencia F.J. - University of Seville (Spain) INTERROGATING THE EFFECT OF AN ORIFICE ON THE TWO-PHASE GAS-LIQUID FLOW BAHAVIOUR Zeghloul A., Azzi A., Saidj F., Morsi T., Azzopardi B.J., Hewakandamby B. University of Science and Technology Hourari Boumedien (Algeria) SEPARATION OF WATER DROPLETS IN THE RHVT Saha D., Zeegers J.C.H., Kuerten J.G.M. - Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands) EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF GAS/NON-NEWTONIAN LIQUID TWO-PHASE FLOWS THROUGH HORIZONTAL AND SLIGHTLY INCLINED PIPES Picchi D., Manerba Y., Correra S., Margarone M., Poesio P.- University of Brescia (Italy) SELECTIVE SEPARATION OF HYDROCARBONS IN MULTICOMPONENT GAS MIXTURES Kossov V., Fedorenko O. - al-Farabi Kazakh National University (Kazakhstan) EULERIAN METHOD FOR MODELLING OF TWO-PHASE POLYDISPERSED TURBULENT FLOW WITH UNSTEADY PHASE TRANSITIONS IN WET STEAM TURBINE BLADE CASCADES Avetisyan A.R., Philippov G.A. - Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia) PREDICTION OF PVT AND VLE DATA UNSING ANNS Hakeem M.A., Khan S., Kamil M.- Aligarh Muslim University (India) HYDRODYNAMICS AND PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION IN A VAPOUR-LIQUID SEPARATOR FED WITH INTERMITTENT FLOW Paglianti A., Luongo A., Caccia F., Montante G.- Università degli Studi di Bologna (Italy) Session 2 – Basic Studies in Multiphase Flow ASSESSMENT OF TWO-PHASE CRITICAL FLOW MODEL Lafon P., Essadki M.- EDF-CNRS-CEA (France) ON THE VALIDATION OF THE TWO-FLUID MODEL FOR SIMULATIONS OF BUBBLY FLOW IN NUCLEAR REACTORS Strom H., Sasie S., Jareteg K., Demazière C.- Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) EFFECT OF VISCOSITY AND BUBBLE APPROACH SPEED ON COALESCENCE Orvalho S., Grillo S., Ruzicka M.C., Olivieri G., Marzocchella A.- Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II” (Italy) GAS-LIQUID TWO-PHASE FLOW IN VERTICAL RISERS: AN ANALYSIS OF INFLUENCE OF THE GEOMETRY AND LIQUID VISCOSITY Hewakandamby B.N., Azzopardi B.J.- University of Nottingham (United Kingdom) TWO-PHASE FLOW DISTRIBUTION IN PARALLEL VERTICAL CHANNELS FED BY A VARIABLE DEPTH PROTUSION HEADER Marchitto A., Fossa M., Guglielmini G., Paietta E.- University of Genova (Italy) TWO-PHASE COUNTER-CURRENT FLOW IN LARGE DIAMETER VERTICAL PIPE WITH INTERNAL PIPES: EXPERIMENTS AND NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS Besagni G., Guédon G., Inzoli F. - Politecnico di Milano (Italy) DESIGN OF A THERMOPHORETIC PRECIPITATOR FOR A NANO PARTICLE SOOT AGGREGATE CAPTURE Ait A.Y.L., Gehin E., Sagot B.- Paris-Est Université (France) INVITED LECTURE MICROSCALE HEAT TRANSFER IN TWO-PHASE FLOW Celata G.P. - ENEA (Italy) 17 Wednesday, p.m. Session 3 – Phase change and heat transfer in Multiphase Systems INTERFACIAL HEAT TRANSFER MODELS FOR FLASHING FLOWS: A REVIEW Liao Y., Lucas D. - Helmhotz-Zentrum Dresden (Germany) AN ASSESSMENT OF HEAT TRANSFER CHARACTERISTICS IN SUBCOOLED FLOW BOILING OF WATER IN HORIZONTAL TUBE Puli U. - MRAGR Government Polytechnic Vizianagaram (India) MFIP13 Sestri Levante, Sept. 17-19, 2014 __________________________________________________________________________________________________ PROGRAM 17 Wednesday, p.m. Session 3 – Phase change and heat transfer in Multiphase Systems SIMPLIFIED MODELS DEDICATED TO VAPOR EXPLOSION FOR ASTRID PRE-CONCEPTUAL DESIGN Caraghiaur D., Marie N., Bertand F., Kudinov P. - The Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm (Sweden) FLOW BOILING HEAT TRANSFER IN IMPINGING LIQUID JET FLOWS Fritsching U., Stark P.- Bremen University (Germany) ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK BASED PREDICTION OF HEAT TRANSFER IN A VERTICAL THERMOSIPHON REBOILER Kamil M., Hakeem M.A.- Aligarh Muslim University (India) Session 4 – Phase change and heat transfer in Multiphase Systems BOILING CENTRES INDUCTION IN FLASHING FLOW Ivashnyov O., Ivashneva M.- Moscow Lomonosov State University (Russia) TWO-PHASE FLOW PATTERNS AND FLOW BOILING HEAT TRANSFER FOR R-345FA IN A 3.00 MM TUBE Charnay R., Revellin R., Bonjour J.- Université de Lyon (France) ENHAMCEMENT OF MSF BY USING MICROBUBBLES Okazaki T., Kawara Z., Yokomine T., Kunugi T.- University of Kyoto (Japan) THE INVESTIGATION OF SPECIFIC ISOBARIC THERMAL HEAT CAPACITY OF LIQUIDS Bukhovich Y., Maltsev R., Magomadov A.- Kuban State Technological University Krasnodar (Russia) MODELING BLOWDOWN OF TWO-PHASE HYDROCARBONS PRESSURE VESSEL D’Alessandro V., Giacchetta G., Leporini M., Marchetti B., Terenzi A. - Università Politecnica delle Marche (Italy) NATURAL CONVECTION IN A FLUID IN A SQUARE COLUMN WITH PHASE-TRANSITION AND VISCOUS DISSIPATION Lumpova A.N., Zubkov P.T. - Tyumen State University (Russia) (AI2O3) EXPERIMENTS IN A NATURAL CIRCULATION MINILOOP Misale M., Borreani W., Chersola D.- Università degli Studi di Genova (Italy) 18 Thursday, a.m. INVITED LECTURE APPLICATIONS OF RANS-BASED CFD TECHNIQUES TO THE PREDICTION OF MULTIPHASE FLOWS IN INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL EQUIPMENT Montante G.- Università degli Studi di Bologna (Italy) Session 5 – Modelling and CFD in Multiphase Systems A MULTI-SCALE MODELLING APPROACH FOR INDUSTRIAL MULTIPHASE FLOW Lucas D .- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden (Germany) ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF MOMENT TRANSPORT EQUATIONS IN OPEN FOAM TO PRESERVE CONSERVATION, BOUNDEDNESS AND REALIZABILITY Buffo A., Marchisio D.L., Vanni M.- Politecnico di Torino (Italy) NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF SLUG GENERATION AT V-SHAPED ELBOW BETWEEN INCLINED PIPES Irikura M., Maekawa M., Hosokawa S., Tomiyama A.- Kobe University (Japan) COALESCENCE AND BREAK-UP OF LARGE DROPLETS IN WALL BOUNDED TURBULENCE Scarbolo L., Bianco F., Soldati A. - Università degli Studi di Udine (Italy) MODELLING DROP MOTION AND DEPOSITION IN ANNULAR FLOW IN LARGE DIAMETER VERTICAL PIPES Van der Meulen G.P., Azzopardi B.J.- University of Nottingham (United Kingdom) PARTICLE FLOW PATTERNS IN SPRAY DRYING TOWERS Ali M., Mahmud T., Heggs P.J., Ghadiri M., Bayly A., Ahmadian H., de Juan L.M., Djurdjevic D. University of Leeds (United Kingdom) MFIP13 Sestri Levante, Sept. 17-19, 2014 __________________________________________________________________________________________________ PROGRAM 18 Thursday, a.m. Session 6 – Modelling and CFD in Multiphase Systems A NOVEL FULLY COUPLED PRESSURE BASED MULTIPHASE FLOW ALGHORITM Darwish M., Moukalled F.- American University of Beirut (Lebanon) A CFD-VOF BASED MODEL TO ADDRESS INTENSIVE PHOBIOREACTOR DESIGN Olivieri G., Salatino P., Marzocchella A., Gargiulo L., Mazzei L., Lettieri P. Università degli Studi di Napoli – Federico II (Italy) MODELLING AND COMPUTATION OF IRREGULAR NON-SPHERICAL PARTICLES TRANSPORT IN CONFINED TURBULENT FLOW Lain S., Sommerfeld M., Quintero B., Qadir Z.- Universidad Autonoma de Occidente, Cali (Colombia) CFD STUDIES OF THE HYDRODYNAMICS OF SLUG FLOW SYSTEMS: INTERACTION BETWEEN CONSECUTIVE TAYLOR BUBBLES Araujo J.D.P., Miranda J.M., Campos J.B.L.M. - Facultade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (Portugal) A CFD STUDY ON TWO-PHASE FROZEN FLOW OF AIR/WATER THROUGH A SAFETY RELIEF VALVE Alshaikh M., Dempster W.- University of Strathclyde (United Kingdom) CFD STUDY OF A SQUARE BUBBLE COLUMN: ANALYSIS OF INTERPHASE FORCES Besagni G., Guédon G., Inzoli F.- Politecnico di Milano (Italy) INVITED LECTURE DISCRETE PARTICLE SIMULATION OF COMPLEX PARTICLE-FLUID FLOWS IN INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS YU Aibing- Monash University (Australia) Session 7 – Multiphase Chemical Reactors ENERGY INTENSITY REDUCTION OF Ca-LOOPING CO2 CAPTURE BY APPLYING MIXING LOOP SEALA AND CYCLONIC SYSTEMS Martinez A., Lisbona P., Lara Y., Romeo L.M.- Universidad de Saragoza (Spain) MODELLING OF SLURRY ABSORBER FOR BIOMIMETIC CO2 CAPTURE Russo M.E., Bareschino P., Olivieri G., Chirone R., Salatino P., Marzocchella A.- IRC/CNR (Italy) EXPERIMENTAL TESTS WITH RICE STRAW ON A SQUARED-BASED SPOUTED BED REACTOR Moliner C., Curti M., Bosio B., Arato E., Rovero G.- Università degli Studi di Genova (Italy) CO2 SORPTION BY HYDROTALCITE-LIKE COMPOUNDS IN DRY AND WET CONDITIONS Gallucci K., Micheli F., Poliandri A., Rossi L., Foscolo P.U.- Università degli Studi de L’Aquila (Italy) PRODUCTION OF MICROENCAPSULATED PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS FROM OLIVE OIL INDUSTRY WASTES USING SPRAY DRYING TECHNOLOGY Paini M., Aliakbarian B., Casazza A.A., Comotto M., Perego P.- Università degli Studi di Genova (Italy) SONOPROCESSING PROMOTES FAST CO2 CAPTURE/DECARBONATION IN FLUIDIZED BEDS AT Ca-LOOPING CONDITIONS Valverde J.M., Ebri J.M.P., Quintanilla M.A.S.- University of Seville (Spain) GRANULAR FLOW SIMULATIONS OF LIMITING REGIMES OF PARTICLE-WALL INTERACTION RELEVANT TO SLAGGING COAL GASIFIER Aprivitola A., Marra F.S., Montagnaro F., Salatino P.- IRC-CNR (Italy) Session 8 – Fluid Dynamics of Solid-Fluid Suspensions PREDICTING THE SEGREGATION DIRECTION OF FLUIDIZED MIXTURES BASED ON SPECIES DRAG FORCE REPARTITION Di Maio F.P., Di Renzo A.- Università degli Studi della Calabria (Italy) MECHANISTIC MODELLING FOR SIZE-SELECTIVE REMOVAL AND SEPARATION OF FINES AND PARAFFIN CRYSTAL FROM THIN BEDS Toma P., Kuru E.- P R Toma Consulting Ltd (Canada) MFIP13 Sestri Levante, Sept. 17-19, 2014 __________________________________________________________________________________________________ PROGRAM 18 Thursday, p.m. Session 8 – Fluid Dynamics of Solid-Fluid Suspensions VALIDATION OF A RELATIONSHIP FOR PREDICTING THE FINAL FLUIDIZATION VELOCITY OF TWO-COMPONENT BEDS OF SOLIDS Formisani B., Girimonte R., Vivacqua V.- Università degli Studi della Calabria (Italy) DENSITY SEGREGATION IN A GAS-SOLID (GELDART GROUP D) FLUIDIZED BED Rose-Higgins Z., Gbadegesin S.Y.I., Azzopardi B.J.- University of Nottingham (United Kingdom) NUMERICAL VERIFICATION OF FLUID-PARTICLE DRAG LAW IN BINARY-SOLID SUSPENSIONS Di Felice R., Rotondi M., Pagliai P.- Università degli Studi di Genova (Italy) NUMERICAL EVALUATION OF THE LIQUID SPECIFIED FLUID-PARTCLE INTERACTION FORCES ON MODELLING A LIQUID FLUIDIZED BED Malone K.F., Xu B.H. - University of Leeds (United Kingdom) NUMERICAL ANALYSIS ON THE PARTICLE BEHAVIOUR IN A FLUID PHASE RESONANCE MIXER Schmalfuss S., Sommerfeld M., Sauberlich R.-Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle (Germany) 19 Friday, a.m. INVITED LECTURE COMPLEX PARTICLES IN TURBULENCE: MODELLING AND COMPUTATION Marchioli C.- Università degli Studi di Udine (Italy) Session 9 – Large Scale Multiphase Flow WET GAS METERING BY ISOKINETIC SAMPLING Andreussi P., Ciandri P., Bonavita N., Ciarlo G.- University of Pisa/TEA Sistemi (Italy) A PRACTICAL APPROACH TO OPERATIONAL HYDRODYNAMIC SLUG ANALYSIS IN PIPELINES Galatro D., Ercolani D., Fuerbauer D.- ILF Consulting Engineering (Germany) THE THERMOSIPHON COOLING SYSTEM OF THE ATLAS EXPERIMENT AT THE CERN LARGE HADRON COLLIDER Rossi C.- Academy of Science of the Czech Republic (Czech Republic) FULL COMPOSITIONAL SIMULATION OF TWO-PHASE FLOWS Raimondi L.- Process Simulation Services, Rescaldina (Italy) COST-EFFECTIVE DRAG REDUCTION BY BIO-POLYMER ADDITIVES IN INDUSTRIAL SIZE TURBULENT FLOW Campolo M., Simeoni M., Soldati A.- Università degli Studi di Udine (Italy) THERMO-HYDRAULIC SIMULATIONS OF BYPASS PIGGING SYSTEMS UNDER SINGLE AND TWO-PHASE CONDITIONS Giacchetta G., Leporini M., Magnoni M., Marchetti B.- Università Politecnica delle Marche (Italy) A NUMERICAL SCHEME FOR THE SOLUTION OF THE TRANSIENT MULTIPHASE FLOW IN HORIZONTAL WELL Soprano A.B., Silva A.F.C., Maliska C.R.- UFSC (Brazil) Session 10 – Basic Studies in Multiphase Flow A MODEL ON THE STABILITY OF A PIPE IN AN AERATED SILO Barletta D., Poletto M.- Università degli Studi di Salerno (Italy) PARTICLE BREAKAGE IN A SCIROCCO DISPENSER Ali M., Bonakdar T., Ghadiri M., Tinke A.- University of Leeds (United Kingdom) PORE-SCALE SIMULATION OF COLLOID DISPERSION AND DEPOSITION IN POROUS MEDIA Boccardo G., Icardi M., Marchisio D., Sethi R., Tosco T.- Politecnico di Torino (Italy) THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF THE BEHAVIOUR OF COHESIVE HOMOGENEOUS GASFLUIDIZED BEDS Oke O., Lettieri P., Mazzei L.- University College London (United Kingdom) INTERDEPENDENT ROLE OF PARTICLE SIZE AND FIELD ORIENTATION ON THE YIELD STRESS OF STABLE MAGNETOFLUIDIZED BEDS Espin M.J., Quintanilla M.A.S., Valverde J.M.- University of Seville (Spain) MFIP13 Sestri Levante, Sept. 17-19, 2014 __________________________________________________________________________________________________ PROGRAM 19 Friday, p.m Session 11 – Experimental Measurements and Techniques in Multiphase Flow FLOW STRUCTURE MEASUREMENTS OF GRAVITY FLOW OF BIOFUELS USING ELECTRICAL CAPACITANCE TOMOGRAPHY Hunt A. - Atout Process Ltd. Southamptom (United Kingdom) EXPERIMENTAL QUANTIFICATION OF TWO-PHASE FLOW DYNAMICS Moghadasi L., Inzoli F., Guadagnini A., Bartosek M., Renna D.- Milan Polytechnic (Italy) A NEW ULTRASONIC INSTRUMENT FOR THE COMBINED REAL-TIME FLOWMETRY AND BINARY VAPOUR DETERMINATION IN A FLUOROGRAM EVAPORATING COOLING SYSTEM Rossi C.- Academy of Science of the Czech Republic (Czech Republic)/Cern Geneve (Swiss Confederation) USING MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING TO MONITOR PROCESSFLOWS OF MULTIPHASE SYSTEMS Powell R.L., Tozzi E., Cardona M., McCarthy M.J.- University of California (USA) STUDY OF PULVERISED COAL FLUIDIZATION USING ELECTRICAL CAPACITANCE TOMOGRAPHY Azzopardi B.J., Ebrahem Y.T.Y., Rose-Higgins Z., Li X.- University of Nottingham (United Kingdom) SOLID CONCENTRATION DISTRIBUTION IN SLURRY STIRRED TANKS Carletti C., Montante G., Westerlund T., Paglianti A. - Akademi University (Finland) Session 12 – Basic Studies in Multiphase Flow EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION OF SINGLE DROP BREAKUP PHENOMENA Solsvik J., Jokobsen H.A.- NUST, Tronndheim (Norway) ENHANCEMENT OF WATER-OIL SEPARATION BY ELECTROCOALESCENCE Vivacqua V., Mhatre S., Ghadiri M., Abdullah A.M., Hassanpour A., Al-Marri M.J.F.A., Azzopardi B., Hewakandamby B., Kermani B. - Qatar University (Qatar) EXPERIMENTS WITH COAXIAL FITTINGS FOR ENHANCING THE PHASE DISTRIBUTION IN PARALLEL VERTICAL CHANNELS Marchitto A., Fossa M., Paietta E., Rolando D.- Università degli Studi di Genova (Italy) A PREDICTING METHOD OF FRICTIONAL PRESSURE DROP DURING TWO-PHASE FLOW IN SMALL DIAMETER CHANNELS Del Col D., Azzolin M., Bisetto A., Bortolin S.- Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy) JET PUMP PERFORMANCE IN LIQUID AND GAS PUMPING Mikkonen A., Karvinen R.- Tampere University of Technology (Finland) CFD SIMULATIONS DEVOTED TO THE STUDY OF FITTING EFFECTS ON THE PHASE DISTRIBUTION IN PARALLEL VERTICAL CHANNEL Devia F., Marchitto A., Fossa M., Guglielmini G.- Università degli Studi di Genova (Italy) MODELLING OF FIXED-BED ADSORPTION ON Na-X ZEOLITE Bareschino P., Diglio G., Penna V., Pepe F., Salatino P.- Università degli Studi del Sannio (Italy) NANOFLUID (AI2O3) EXPERIMENTS IN A SINGLE-PHASE NATURAL CIRCULATION NIMILOOP: COMPARISON BETWEEN THERMAL PERFORMANCE OF WATER AND NANOFLUID Misale M., Borreani W., Chersola D.- Università degli Studi di Genova (Italy) MFIP13 Sestri Levante, Sept. 17-19, 2014 __________________________________________________________________________________________________ SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Mohammad Asif (King Saud University, SA) Barry Azzopardi (University of Nottingham, UK) Giancarlo Baldi (Politecnico di Torino, IT) Avram Bar-Cohen (University of Maryland, USA) Antonio Bennardo (ENI r&m division, IT) Franco Berruti (University of Western Ontario, CA) Jocelyn Bonjour (INSA de Lyon, FR) Alberto Brucato (Università di Palermo, IT) Gian Piero Celata (Enea Casaccia, IT) Riccardo Chirone (IRC-CNR, IT) Marwan Darwish (American University of Beirut, LB) Davide Del Col (Università di Padova, IT) John Dennis (University of Cambridge, UK) Renzo Di Felice (Università di Genova, IT) Dario Ercolani (ILF, Monaco - DE) Brunello Formisani (Università della Calabria, IT) Francesco Ferrini (Techfem, IT) Marco Fossa (Università di Genova, IT) Rodney Fox (Iowa State University, USA) Mojtaba Ghadiri (University of Leeds, UK) Paola Lettieri (University College London, UK) Franco Magelli (Università di Bologna, IT) Michele Margarone (ENI e&p division, IT) Antonio Marzocchella (Università di Napoli, IT) Mario Misale (Università di Genova, IT) Alessandro Paglianti (Università di Bologna) Julio Cesar Passos (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, BR) Pietro Poesio (Università di Brescia, IT) Luigi Raimondi (XPsim, IT) Marek Ruzicka (Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ) Piero Salatino (Università di Napoli, IT) Libero Sesti Osseo (Università di Salerno, IT) Olivier Simonin (INP Toulouse, FR) Matteo Sironi (Flowserve, IT) Alfredo Soldati (Università di Udine, IT) Martin Sommerfeld (Martin-Luther Universität Halle, Wittenberg, DE) Beng Hee Reginald Tan (National University of Singapore, SG) Alessandro Terenzi (Saipem S.p.A., B.U. Onshore, IT) John Thome (EPFL de Lausanne, CH) Jose Manuel Valverde Millan (Universidad de Sevilla, SP) Bao Hua Xu (University of Leeds, UK) Aibing Yu (University of New South Wales, AUS) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Francesco Ferrini (TechFem) Gian Piero Celata (Enea Casaccia, Roma) Renzo Di Felice (Università di Genova) Marco Fossa (Università di Genova) Annalisa Marchitto (Università di Genova) Mario Misale (Università di Genova) Paolo Pagliai (Università di Genova) Anna Valenti (ANIMP) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE SCIENTIFIC SECRETARIAT: POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF GENOVA SECRETARIAT OF THE CONFERENCE: ANIMP ITALIAN ASSOCIATION OF INDUSTRIAL PLANT ENGINEERING - MILAN