Process Optimization
New cable sealing system offers cost and maintenance savings for processing plants
Miles of cables of various diameters are routed into new process plants, industrial plants, petrochemical plants, refineries and other industrial applications.
Dynamic simulation for FGRS design and controllability analysis
In this study, a dynamic model of a flare gas recovery system (FGRS) with a high-pressure eductor compression system was developed in a dynamic simulation for process design verification, control scheme evaluation and an availability study.
Onsite
Jenny Hebert and George Yaluris of Albemarle accept the <i>HP</i> Award for Best Catalyst Technology.
Business Trends
Across the hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI), executives are buzzing about operational excellence.
More residue processing in FCCUs
Resid units have more than 2 wt% Conradson carbon residue (Concarbon) in feed and more than 5,000 parts per million (ppm) of nickel (Ni) and vanadium (V) on equilibrium catalysts (Ecat).
Reconstruct a vacuum column injector system using computer modeling—Part 1
Steam ejector vacuum systems are the most common means of creating and maintaining a vacuum in the process units of oil and gas processing facilities.
Viewpoint: Oil and gas downstream looks to digitalization for sustained excellence
The combination of US tax reforms and changes to global bunker fuel specifications in 2020 as part of the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO’s) new regulations are set to turn the US oil and gas downstream into a cash cow.
Digital: Riding the digital transformation wave
For refiners, the future is full of uncertainty. Due to market forces—e.g., the macroeconomics of oil and gas supply and demand, the increasing demand for petrochemicals and new marine low-sulfur fuel requirements—organizations are faced with many business challenges that require increasingly flexible operations.
Editorial Comment: The reemergence of a collaborative platform
Readers have witnessed that throughout the life of the publication, <i>Hydrocarbon Processing</i> has always published information on new technologies to increase efficiency, safety and profitability in downstream processing operations, while introducing techniques to decrease environmental footprint and emissions and produce high-quality, clean fuels and petroleum products for consumers around the world.
Process safety as a profit center?
In today’s economic environment, new capital spending is harder to find than loose change buried under the couch cushions.
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- Vietnam refinery boosting jet fuel production 4/3
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