The 3rd international conference and exhibition on testing and monitoring in oil, petrochemical, refining and environmental applications – PEFTEC – will take place on 23 and 23 May in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In mid February the organisers announced that it has been expanded to include a Process Analysis Conference, as well as an Analytical Conference. In addition, both conferences will merge for a joint session on ‘Big Data/Big Analysis’.
PEFTEC 2019 will be held at the Rotterdam Ahoy exhibition centre and as “the only major European analytical conference and exhibition this year”, organiser Marcus Pattison said it will provide “a unique opportunity for visitors”.
“The new larger Exhibition will provide access to innovation from over 250 world-leading companies, and the conferences will provide the latest information on process monitoring and control, regulations, standards, methods, technologies, and analytical techniques, in addition to case studies and reports on current research.”
The Analytical Conference will cover the latest developments in mass spectrometry as well as recent developments in GC and GCxGC applications with a range of detection systems including the barrier ionisation discharge detector, MS and VUV spectroscopy.
The Process Analysis Conference will include sessions on process gas analysis using online techniques such as GC, Optical Feedback Cavity Enhanced Absorption Spectroscopy, VUV Spectroscopy and Open Path FTIR. Presentations will address the re-emergence of Supercritical Fluid Chromatography as well as the application of both molecular and atomic spectroscopic techniques. There will also be presentations on process liquid analysis applications using a range of spectrometric, chromatographic and sensor based technologies.
PEFTEC will also incorporate an Industrial Methane Measurement Conference featuring a wide variety of speakers reporting on projects and technologies involved with initiatives to measure and mitigate global methane emissions.
The organisers say PEFTEC 2019 will be a ‘must go’ event for anyone involved with analytical chemistry, quality control, research, process development and control. And it will provide an ideal opportunity to meet existing and prospective instrumentation and service providers – all under one roof at the same time.
