Refining
How do feedstocks affect visbreaker operations?
Studies show that feedstock quality and severity on conversion impact the stability of visbreaker residue
Consider options to lower benzene levels in gasoline
New regulations further limit this aromatic from the refinery blending pool
Increase diesel recovery
New approaches fine-tune methods to separate more diesel as product stream
'Come at once. We've struck a berg.' How would you respond?
TIM LLOYD WRIGHT, European Editor Comments? Write: editorial@HydrocarbonProcessing.com I think enough of us now are entertaining the notion that the in..
HPIn Europe: New fundamental is money flow—mantra is peak theory
Could it be that a financially talented cadre managing fantastic swathes of wealth has not only "bought" peak oil theory, but has been investing massively in what amounts to a classic bull market sque..
Distillation column relief loads—Part 2
The conventional method is expanded and a series of guidelines are developed
Improve crude oil fractionation by distributed distillation
Heat-integrated distributed distillation in crude oil fractionation can reduce energy consumption and emissions
The 'inconvenient truths' about the environment and energy supplies
It is no longer if climate change is occurring. Rather, it is now more when, where and how governments will address climate change. Several climate scientists have linked climate change to increasing ..
HPIn Europe: Get urgent, Indian Oil chairman tells industry leaders
Quoting Martin Luther King, J.F. Kennedy and the Bhagavad Gita, the chairman of Indian Oil Corp. said we need to urgently change the way we live—in a presentation in London that addressed peak oi..
HPIn Europe: Reluctantly hauling aboard the peak oil train
BP's volte-face investment in oil sands, Shell's ominous allusions to a decline in gas, all this emperor's clothes nonsense in Alberta, supermajor share buybacks and the rise of the financial players ..
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