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Engineering & Design

Advantages of using TDL analyzers for safety monitoring in combustion within HPI applications

Servomex: Jenkins, R.

From refining to chemical production processes, heaters play an essential role in hydrocarbon processing applications.

Projects as programs: A vision for long-term project success

Solvay: Scofield, R.

Process industries across the globe grapple with producing dozens or even hundreds of different products.

Refinery revamp opportunities with welded plate heat exchangers

CDE Projects Ltd.: Kauders, P.
GESMEX Exchangers GmbH: Broad, R.

The plate-and-shell (P&S) heat exchanger has three significant advantages over the shell-and-tube (S&T) type traditionally used in refinery processes.

Best options for a reboiler revamp

Fluor Daniel India: Pramanik, R.  |  Srinath, N. R.

It is always a challenge to reconfigure and resize existing reboilers, especially vertical thermosiphon ones, for the revised design and operating conditions of a brownfield project, since hydraulics external to the reboiler must match the reboiler hydraulics under the revamped conditions to ensure trouble-free operation.

Benefits of close-coupled flush rings

AS-Schneider: Ambacher, A.

The chemical industry uses flush rings for diaphragm seals.

Address measurement uncertainty in pipelines and storage

TÜV SÜD: Robson, B.

How would you measure the volume of a can of soup? The height should work, but what about diameter? Or, you can possibly just trust what the manufacturer has told you on the label.

Pumps handicapped by not using best available technology

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

Pump lubrication deficiencies are often denied, and the outstanding reliability performance of oil mist is vastly underreported.

Construction

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

Anadarko Petroleum Corp. has reached a full agreement with CCS JV, a JV between Chiyoda, McDermott and Saipem, for the development of its Mozambique Area 1 LNG terminal.

Editorial Comment: Embracing uncertainty for a better tomorrow

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

The downstream processing industry is changing.

An evolving approach to digitalization

Emerson Automation Solutions: Wyatt, T.  |  Fleissman, R.

Much has been written in recent years about the need for refineries to embrace the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).