Office Hours: Lab and Process Titration for the Petrochemical Industry
Are your titration results keeping up with the demands of modern petrochemical operations? Many facilities still rely on manual or lab-only titration workflows, limiting data traceability, delaying response to process upsets, and increasing exposure to corrosion, compliance risk, and avoidable rework. Automated titration changes that, but the real opportunity is realized when validated lab methods are extended into the process.
Join Brett Lane and Eduardo Simões from Metrohm USA and Kris Kohl, Lead Technical Support Engineer at Baker Hughes, for office hours focused on lab-to-process titration in the petrochemical industry. Drawing on real-world field experience, these experts will walk through three high‑impact applications: crude overhead water analysis (ammonia, chloride, and iron), mercaptan measurement, and total acid and base number (TAN/TBN). You will see how lab methods translate into a continuous process analyzer and what that means for your accuracy, repeatability, data traceability, and ROI across lab, process, and plant operations.
Bring your questions to the live Q&A focused on real lab‑to‑process titration decisions.
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the distinct and complementary roles of lab and process titration
- See how key titration applications translate from lab to process in petrochemical operations
- Learn how automaton improves accuracy, repeatability, and data traceability
- Explore the ROI of process titration through real-world field experience from Baker Hughes
- Identify which applications in your own operation could benefit from extending lab methods into the process
Who Should Attend:
- Laboratory analysts and chemists performing titration-based quality control and routine sample analysis
- Process engineers evaluating or managing inline and at-line measurement for real-time process control
- Plant managers and technical decision makers assessing the ROI of process analytical technology
- Environmental, health, and safety professionals responsible for sampling protocols and safe operation in hazardous areas
- Anyone in the petrochemical industry working with crude overhead water, mercaptans, or TAN/TBN applications
Presenter: Brett Lane (Field Applications Specialist, Metrohm USA)
Presenter: Eduardo Simões, MSc (Titration Product Specialist, Metrohm USA)
Presenter: Kris Kohl (Lead Technical Support Engineer, Baker Hughes)
Presenter: Melissa O'Meara (Forensic Science Consultant, ACS Media Group)
