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HP Water Management: Utility water boot camp for process engineers—Part 1

MarTech Systems, Inc.: Huchler, L. A.

The refining and petrochemical industries employ a large number of process engineers. Plants often assign newly graduated engineers to the utility water area. Process engineers in each operating unit ..

Optimize operating parameters of absorbers/strippers in gas plants

Bantrel Co.: Nava, J.

Better recovery definition of C3s and C4s from gas absorber/stripper can lower costs

Increase crude unit capacity through better integration

Gulf Advanced Process Technologies (GAP-Tech): Amin, M. S.  |  Ibrahim, M. S.  |  Aseeri, A. S.

In revamp projects, better energy integration provides more benefits with less capital investment and lower operating costs

Finetune boil-off gas generation from refrigerated storage facilities

Sazeh Consultants: Jari, Kalat  |  Gorji, A. H.

Improved estimation methods accurately calculate vaporized product for LNG and LPG storage and transfer systems

Discover new trends in oily wastewater reclamation

Refinery Water Engineering & Associates: Kujawski, D.

Refiners can find profits by ‘upgrading’ treatment and recycling process water

HP Reliability: Not ready for 29-year-old pump packing

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

In 2009 we were informed about “a nuclear plant that was never commissioned after its original construction. This plant has been sitting idle for 29 years and is only now starting up.” The o..

Solve liquid-hammer problems

Dalan Farayand Engineering Co.: Salehi, F.

Here are several options

New explicit friction factor equation for turbulent flow in smooth pipes

Bouali Sina Petrochemical Company: Sasan-Amiri, A.

A simple, explicit and high-accuracy equation is presented

A support vector classification method for regime identification of slurry transport in pipelines

National Institute of Technology: Ghanta, K. C.  |  Lahiri, S. K.

Statistical analysis showed the proposed solution has an average misclassification error of only 1.5%

Estimate water hammer loads in steam piping

Reliance Refinery: Darji, P.  |  Saha, S.

The problem is more complicated because of the two-phase flow