Environment & Safety
Petrobras develops new FCCU technology to capture CO2, cut emissions
Company officials at Petrobras say this is the first pre-industrial scale FCCU to use oxy-combustion technology to capture CO2 released by industrial processes in refineries.
Haldor Topsoe, FLSmidth to jointly market catalytic filter bag technology
The product’s integrated process can reduce the cost of off-gas cleaning and differs from the standard of using separate stand-alone systems to address removal of specific compounds.
Total inks new labor agreement with global union
A committee made up of members from Total and IndustriALL will meet annually to ensure that the agreement has been implemented and to identify and promote best practices.
Blast at Brazilian refinery burns three workers
The fire and explosion at Petrobras' 323,000-bpd Landulpho Alves (RLAM) complex is the second major accident to occur at Brazil's second-largest refinery within a week.
Chemical board issues safety bulletin on Alabama plant ammonia release
The safety lessons were derived from an investigation into a 2010 anhydrous ammonia release that occurred at Millard Refrigerated Services, located in Theodore, Alabama.
Honeywell begins production of new low-GWP blowing agent, propellant
Honeywell projects that use of its low GWP Solstice materials to replace HFCs will eliminate more than 350 metric MMt in CO2 equivalents by 2025.
ABB wins TÜV certification in Canada for safety system engineering
The company’s Calgary and Burlington offices are the first to implement TÜV certified functional safety management system for design, engineering and delivery of safety instrumented systems.
Without reliability, there can be no safety
Reliability and safety are complimentary concepts. For instance, unless process reliability at a plant is extraordinary, safety cannot be assured. Achieving the highest level of safety at a processing..
HP Innovations
Conductivity meter resolves SDA dosingA major Asian refinery approached Stanhope-Seta and D-2 Technologies to assess its options for automatic dosing of static dissipater additive (SDA) in the jet fue..
PetroChina picks UOP process to purify hydrogen at new refining complex
With support from UOP’s local service team, GXPC successfully commissioned a UOP Polybed PSA (Pressure Swing Adsorption) system to purify hydrogen, which is a critical ingredient used in modern refining processes to produce clean transportation fuels like diesel, gasoline and jet fuel.
- Petrobras delivers LPG sold at steep premiums despite Lula move to annul auction 4/3
- Plug Power to supply 275-MW GenEco electrolyzer system for Hy2gen’s Courant decarbonized ammonium nitrate project 4/3
- Vietnam refinery boosting jet fuel production 4/3
- China plans to upgrade some petrochemical plants, phase out others by 2029 4/3
- Morocco has diesel stocks for 51 days, energy ministry says 4/3
- Nigeria's Seplat Energy hit by strike amid push for higher output 4/3
