Refining
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Biofuels can compete in a low-priced oil market
HPIn Europe: Oil products and a great machine swerved us off course?
The local car firm, Volvo, is in crisis. It can't sell the gas-guzzling SUVs it's been making since being bought by a US car maker. It's a reminder that what people and companies do with the internal ..
HPIn Europe: Will the oil price interlude catch the world napping?
It looks like the new year that will soon be upon us will see a welcome sedative for policymakers and planners of the refining industry and wider economy. The year 2008, with its record energy price..
HPIn Europe: Avoiding 'the coming subsidy trap' of cellulosic ethanol
In my last column, I wrote about my chance encounter with Ingemar Bjurenvall—a crop scientist and innovator who deplores the lack of attention paid to farming itself by the fledgling biofuels ind..
Consider advanced catalysts for Claus units
This evaluation explores the most influencing parameters regarding catalyst selection for sulfur recovery units
Improve calculating cetane numbers
An empirical formula simplifies estimating cetane values for different diesel fuel specifications
Outlook for multivariable predictive control
Saudi Aramco's Allan Kern has been a frequent contributor to HP in recent years on the subject of multivariable predictive control (MPC). For HP's 2008 process control and information systems report, ..
HPIn Europe: Investing in biofuels? How many farms did you buy?
The early popularity of some biofuels in Europe has soured into a sense that they are wasteful of food resources. As long as biofuel investors continue to ignore how plants are grown on the farm, then..
Improve refinery reformate yields
This refiner installed a hybrid catalytic reforming unit to raise octane of the gasoline blending pool
Dealing with increased hydrogen sulfide and ammonia resulting from higher desulfurization severity
New process most-effectively stretches sulfure recovery capacity
- EU warns of prolonged energy shock, forced cuts if Iran war continues 4/15
- Europe's summer flights at risk as Iran war exposes refining decline 4/15
- Slovak refiner says no deal yet on Adria pipeline tests 4/15
- Japan's weekly gasoline prices largely flat as subsidies offset price spikes 4/15
- Botswana has not requested stake in Lobito refinery, Angola's Sonangol says 4/15
- Tasnee announced delay to SEPC's ethylene/polyethylene plant expansion project 4/15
