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Process Optimization

Preserving knowledge: Keys to effective lifecycle management

Honeywell Process Solutions: Lippin, J.

Plant information resides in many locations throughout the facility; capturing it is a challenge

Consider these guides for stress relieving of vertical towers

Ultragen Ltd.: Ayari, H.  |  Truong, K.T.  |  Truong, D.

This case history investigates all required post-weld heat treatment for an existing column

HP Reliability: Spare parts availability and the need for non-OEM options

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

Reliability engineers and their associated job functions often try hard to make their responsible supply-chain staff or purchasing departments understand that it is impossible for the maintenance depa..

HP Construction: North America

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Alfa Laval has an order to supply newly developed equipment for cleaning industrial wastewater in Canada. The order value is approximately SEK 60 million and delivery is scheduled for 2012.The order f..

HP Construction: South America

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

PEMEX has acquired 45 of the latest Model 5100 HD series gas analyzers from AMETEK Process Instruments to monitor moisture levels in natural gas at monitoring stations throughout Mexico. Based on tuna..

HP Construction: Europe

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

RusTurboMash LLC, a joint venture of Siemens Energy and Iskra-Avigaz, has inaugurated a new compressor-manufacturing plant in Perm, Russia. Siemens holds a 51% stake in the joint venture and Iskra-Avi..

HP Construction: Middle East

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Burckhardt Compression has an order from Petroleum Development Oman LLC to deliver one process gas compressor for a new miscible gas injection (MGI) facility in the Sultanate of Oman. The responsible ..

HP Construction: Asia-Pacific

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

MAN Diesel & Turbo has an order for 24 compressor units for an integrated chemical complex in Chongqing, China. The order size is about €50 million. Designed as a combined plant, the chemical com..

CB&I lands engineering pact for new petrochemical complex in Russia

CB&I has been awarded a contract by OJSC Rosneft for the license and basic engineering of a naphtha steam cracking unit and a butadiene and benzene extraction unit for a new petrochemical complex in Russia. The steam cracking unit, which will be the world’s largest, is designed to produce more than 1.4 million tpy of ethylene and more than 600,000 tpy of propylene.

Topsøe to supply equipment for new Petrobras refinery in Brazil

Topsoe has signed an agreement with Brazilian oil major Petrobras to supply critical equipment and materials for two SNOX plants. The SNOX plants will clean the off gases from three boilers in the refinery that supplies electricity and steam for internal use.