Engineering & Design
Optimum console design promotes control room efficiency
New features can enhance traditional functionality, reduce operating costs and foster worker safety
Improve desalter operations
Applying a polymeric dispersant, this refiner increased daily throughput by 5% and increased run lengths
Consider genetic algorithms to optimize batch distillation
Alternative simulation tool calculates best reflux conditions to separate binary mixtures
Improve NGL plant performance
Process engineers troubleshoot unstable process circuits
Improve haze removal for FCC gasoline
This refinery used advanced coalescer techniques to separate very stable emulsions and dispersions by mechanical means
Hydrogen generation – a brief review
Project manager discusses vital design features
Developments in the ammonia process
To meet rising demand, producers seek methods to conserve energy and increase plant efficiencies
Developments in the ammonia process Fig 1
Fig. 1. Typical ammonia process flow sheet for a gas-reforming unit. ..
Determine the optimum crude intake level - a case history
When using LP models, users must be fully aware of what data is important and discard the rest
Improve tray operations
How failure occurs from blowing and what can be done to prevent it
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