Experience with naphtha in sour water emulsions generated in a fractionator overhead accumulator

Craig McKnight has worked at Syncrude Canada for 29 years. During that time, he has been responsible for research projects in all areas of Syncrude’s upgrading operations. In 1998, he was seconded to Syncrude’s upgrading expansion project and worked on flowsheeting options and economics. Mr. McKnight returned to research activities in 1999 when he was seconded to ExxonMobil. There, he was named “Innovator of the Year” for his work on sulfur removal from gasoline. He is working to improve fluid coker, LC-Finer and naphtha recovery unit operations. Mr. McKnight graduated from Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada in 1987 with an MS degree in applied science.

Boyd Rumball has worked at Syncrude Canada for 36 years. At present, he is a senior associate in operations support for extraction and upgrade. In this role, he works as the fluid coking technical advisor in the conversion area. Previously, he served as the Fluid Coker 8-3 ready-for-operations technical leader for the Upgrader Expansion (UE-1) project. He was responsible for the commissioning and initial startup of Coker 8-3. He has also had work assignments in site engineering services, operations and advanced control. Boyd holds a BS degree in chemical engineering from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.