Improve operations by avoiding buildup of sensible duty or by using baffles
Foster Wheeler has been awarded a contract by Lukoil for the supply of a waste heat boiler for the Nizhegorodnefteorgsyntez refinery located in the Nizhny Novgorod region of Russia. Foster Wheeler’s scope of work is scheduled to be completed by March 2013, it said.
In case history, engineers search for root cause of water-side tube failures for a 23-year-old boiler
Process control can improve quality and operating efficiency
Oil sands add complexity to separation units and require a new approach
New developments, such as the organic Rankine cycle, help operations go ‘green’
In revamp projects, better energy integration provides more benefits with less capital investment and lower operating costs
Using this technique can improve costs and product quality
Here are new guidelines, checklists and an integrated approach for a successful energy conservation program
A searchable database of project activity in the global hydrocarbon processing industry
Engineers and designers are highly skilled individuals. Forcing them to enter design changes using tables, forms and spreadsheets is unproductive and uneconomical, and it increases the likelihood of human error—this is the way that most instrumentation software systems currently work. For too long, software vendors have denied engineers and designers the simple practicality of a graphical visual engineering interface with “drag and drop” capability and inbuilt intelligence, ensuring changes are automatically replicated into all the associated data and databases.
D. GIBSON, AVEVA
Should the US government impose limits on LNG exports in order to maintain low domestic gas prices?
Yes, energy security comes first 38%
Somewhat, but not too restrictive 5%
No, let global market decide 57%