- Lecture
- Philip DE SMEDT
- Conventional Energies, Chemicals & Petrochemicals
Language: English, French
Planned duration: 2 to 4 hours
Philip DE SMEDT
CV
Experiences
- · Visiting professor at Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Ghent : since 2009
· Director Petrochemicals Europe at Cefic : 2015-2023
· Head of Energy Efficiency Department Total Refining and Chemicals : 2012-2015
· Group leader energy and environment Base Chemicals Total Petrochemicals 2003-2011
· Process Engineer/project manager/technology manager at Jacobs Engineering : 1997-2003
· Researcher/Process Engineer/Senior cracker technologist at Shell : 1987-1997
Degrees
- · PhD in theoretical physics (KULeuven)
· Master in Chemical Engineering (TU Twente)
teaching
- · Visiting professor at Department of Chemical Engineering at UGent since 2009. Courses
o Designing a (petro)chemical plant
o Industrial design projects
o Course on energy efficiency
· Speaker at various international conferences : yearly EEPC conference, ICIS world olefins conference, Platts olefins conference
· Member/chair of Expertgroup Climate, Environment, Sustainability of the Flemish Engineering Association, organizing several courses per year in Flanders on topics of climate, environment and sustainibility
· Climate change and energy transition
· Hydrogen – let us talk about it
· Europen legislation on reduction of Green House Gases
Activities
- · Expert on
o on ethylene steam crackers and satellite units of steam crackers+ other petrochemicals processes
o Expert on energy efficiency,
o Environment and BREF process (Sevilla process to develop best available technologies to abate emissions of industrial installations)
- Other expertise
o Process safety
o Circular economy
o Chemical value chain
Courses & Talks
- Lecture
- Philip DE SMEDT
- CCUS, Climate & Energy Transition
Language: English, French, Dutch
Planned duration: 4 to 16 hours
- Lecture
- Philip DE SMEDT
- Conventional Energies, Refining
Language: English, French
Planned duration: 2 to 8 hours
