There and back again

Posted by Christian Borrmann

Heading back to the conference rooms after a walk around the expo floor and a lunch in the delegate lunch area, the conference delegates where they were in for two sessions: one session was dealing with Fugitive Emissions and the second one was a Masterclass.

The Masterclass dealt with the safe operation of valves and their maintenance in the daily practice. This course which focused on the heart of the valve was held by Mr Cor Bahnerth, who has more than 30 years experience in dealing with valves and has amongst others worked for Shell as their valve expert.

During his, well totally packed masterclass, Mr Bahnerth was able to explain the audience how the valves work and how to keep them functioning and running as wished.

Valve World Asia 2011 sponsor and valve manufacturer Neway was so kind and opened up some valves and gave them to Mr Bahnerth to enable him to provide the audience a deep look into the valve, where everything is happening.

The second session was dealing with Fugitve Emissions and how to avoid these. Obviously, this is a topic perfectly suited for  Barrie Kirkman and so it was quite quickly considered that he would accept to chair this session.

During this paper presentation session, a total of seven presenters shared their views on this topic and how standardization bodies, manufacturers and end-users covering various industry sectors – from oil over gas to nuclear. The presenters came in from all around the world, although the largest group was Western representatives: three presenters came from the US, one from Germany, one from Belgium, and two from China.

Similar to Mr Bahnerth's session, this sesssion was also packed and created a lot of discussions between the presenters and also with several questions coming from the audience.

And Barrie stayed busy as after this paper session he headed quickly back to the expo hall. At one corner of the delegate lunch area, there was this year's first session of the speakers corner. Barrie talked about his many years of experiences as valve expert at BP and the ones he made on his trips to China. As you can see on the pictures it was quite busy and people showed a lot of interest in hearing what he had to share with them.

After this last key event, the first day of Valve World Asia 2011 ended with the famous dinner and a nice party afterwards.

Stay tuned for more updates on the second and final day.

Best wishes,

Christian