Corrosion
HP Innovations: HPInnovations
Vessel monitoring system uses thermal cameras   Fig. 1.  This vessel monitoring software shows the exact   locations of imaging cameras. The Critical Vessel Monitoring System ..
Operating philosophy can reduce overhead corrosion
Boost refinery reliability by controlling potential amine recycle loops
HP Impact: European pipeline performance
European oil industry group CONCAWE has collected 40 years of spillage data on European cross-country oil pipelines with particular regard to spillages volume, cleanup and recovery, environmental cons..
Investigation: Failure of a steam generator
In case history, engineers search for root cause of water-side tube failures for a 23-year-old boiler
HP Reliability: One pump fire per 1,000 pump repairs
While performing reliability audits decades ago, pump-failure statistics were made available or could be recovered with relative ease. But even then, the sources were usually kept confidential because..
HP Water Management: Don’t let water be the reason for a turnaround
Several years ago, while arriving onsite during another unit turnaround, I joked to a process engineer at the refinery “I get it. . . every time I ‘turn around,’ you have a turnaround.&..
Make the case for ‘lean thinking’ in maintenance
What is ‘lean’ for maintenance; should companies use?
Low-pressure absorption of CO2 from flue gas
Case study accomplished 95% sequestration using methyldiethanolamine aqueous solution
Investigation: Failure of a surface condenser titanium tube
Advanced analytic methods determine contributing factors in heat exchanger corrosion problem
Improving pH control mitigates corrosion in crude units
Equipment and pipe failures can be avoided through better desalting practices and inhibitor injections
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