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Optimize cracked-gas compressors with smart-automation technology
Machine health monitors can provide critical information to avoid unit and plant-wide shutdowns
Accurate feedstock selection and planning are critical to profitability
Linear programming plays a vital role for ethylene producer
Better control-loop management lowers energy costs
This petrochemical producer found improved output and became more energy efficient through new software
Improve evaluations for your industrial gas needs
Petrochemical and refining complexes are significant consumers of industrial gases; here are some tips in planning process-gas needs
Meeting diesel specifications at sustained production
New approach rethinks operations of crude and vacuum distillation units to recover more distillate
Low-pressure absorption of CO2 from flue gas
Case study accomplished 95% sequestration using methyldiethanolamine aqueous solution
Investigation: Failure of a surface condenser titanium tube
Advanced analytic methods determine contributing factors in heat exchanger corrosion problem
HP Reliability: Tutors can provide answers
As you read this column, much additional data on the nuclear disaster on the east coast of Japan’s main island will have become available. But, the terms safety and reliability will still be on o..
HP Integration Strategies: HPI needs to develop standards for asset information management
ARC Advisory Group’s 15th Annual World Industry Forum in Orlando, Florida, Feb. 7-10, 2011, attracted more than 650 participants, representing 250 different organizations from 20 different countr..
HPIn Europe: Nervous Petroleum Week crowd thinks the geopolitically unthinkable
These are nervous times in energy markets and on the bridges of oil tankers. Things are going belly up for oil users (which is everyone). And, as I fly home from International Petroleum (IP) week in L..

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