Carbon Management
Ras Tanura: The creation of a clean-fuels complex
The primary objective of the Ras Tanura Refinery Clean Fuels Project is to enable the Ras Tanura refinery—the largest refinery in Saudi Arabia—to produce transportation fuels that will be compliant with future specifications.
Optimize the selection of sulfur unit blocks and process technology combinations
Since the 1940s, the present form of the Claus sulfur recovery unit (SRU) has been successfully applied in the refining and gas processing industries.
Driving higher return with fuel-grade butanol at the refinery
Since the advent of the combustion engine, gasoline and automobile manufacturers have utilized additives as a means of improving overall fuel characteristics.
What went wrong with my furnace?
We should learn from our own mistakes and experiences, but it is wiser to keep track of and learn from all past mistakes and experiences, including those made by others.
Editorial Comment: Optimizing operations by advancing process controls, instrumentation and automation technologies
When driving by or visiting a refinery or petrochemical plant, one cannot help but gaze at the expansive sea of metal towers.
Fired heaters in the process industries: Optimizing operations and minimizing emissions
The process industries, which include chemicals, metals and mining, oil and gas, petrochemicals, pulp and paper, and refining, are very energy intensive
Business Trends: A sustainable future—Unraveled
With the prominence in the oil and gas industry around sustainability, it is worthwhile to examine what it means to be “sustainable.”
Reboiler pinch: An approach to optimize flare system design during FEED
A process plant’s pressure relief and flare systems are critical safety elements.
Optimize flare gas recovery system design to reduce emissions
Emissions from flares worsen air quality and produce waste gas. A flare gas recovery system is designed to facilitate CO<sub>2</sub> reduction.
FTO: An enabling emission control technology for petrochemical plant expansions
For the petrochemical industry, the U.S. Gulf Coast (USGC) has the locational advantage of proximity to cheap feedstock, and to an abundance of pipeline infrastructure and terminals for export markets.
- TotalEnergies extends its fuel price cap policy in France until the end of April 4/7
- Navigating the montan wax challenge with renewable alternatives for polymers 4/7
- AFR selects Axens as technology provider for Texas (U.S.) refinery 4/7
- Iran has attacked Saudi Arabia's Jubail petrochemical complex, IRGC says 4/7
- Iran's Marvdasht Petrochemical complex attacked by US and Israel 4/7
- Fluor awarded engineering and design contract for America First Refining's refinery in South Texas 4/7
