Engineering & Design
Case history: Benchmarks achieved in a residue upgrading project
This energy company aggressively implemented a mega-project safely and under budget with a new approach
Consider advanced multi-promoted catalysts to optimize reformers
Improved catalyst systems strike a new balance to increase yields with greater selectivity for end-products
Biorefineries: Fact or fiction?
Technology advances facilitate building integrated chemical complexes based on renewable feedstocks that can cost-effectively process ethylene derivatives
Consider practical conditions for vacuum unit modeling
A good simulation model is a tool that reveals critical operating conditions and can be applied to daily operations
Laser-scanning technology improves plant quality, safety and training
Costs can be reduced due to 75% fewer field trips as well as 50% fewer fit-up welds and field changes
Project execution risk management for addressing constructability
Use construction knowledge, experience and efficiency in a structured and systematic way throughout the design and execution planning stages
Understanding basic project management
Practice the four basic elements to ensure a successful outcome
Beware the project management pitfalls of control and instrumentation revamps
Here are guidelines to improve the decision-making process
HP Construction: Consider an innovative method for olefin unit construction
New project management approach uses 'lessons learned' from earlier ethylene units to fast-track new steam cracker implementations
Maximize value for refinery 'orphan' products
Midsize US refiner outsourced managing and marketing of benzene to focus on its core business of gasoline and diesel production
- BASF supports European 1,4‑butanediol supply security through increased production in Ludwigshafen 2/16
- Vitol backs proposed $3-billion LNG power plant for South Africa's Durban port 2/16
- HAMR Energy receives additional funding for low-carbon liquid fuels projects 2/16
- NASCAR names POET official bioethanol partner: Becomes first major motorsports series to utilize zero-carbon bioethanol 2/16
- ExxonMobil starts third advanced plastics recycling unit at Baytown complex 2/16
- Geoinform, subsidiary of the MOL Group, signs strategic cooperation agreement with Baker Hughes 2/16
