February 2009
Special Report: Clean Fuels
Designs are evolving to meet changing process needs, while improving the onstream factor and extending run-length
Gas analyzer uses both ultraviolet and infrared spectroscopy
Shifting trends in feedstocks and products create 'win-win' opportunities for hydrocarbon processing facilities
A novel approach economically recovers plant gases
New methodology yields 'green' fuel from nonfood-based feedstock
This European refiner had to reconfigure pentane stream operations to comply with 2009 fuel specifications
New maintenance and operating procedures extend efficiency and service of sulfur recovery catalysts
Biofuels can compete in a low-priced oil market
Bonus Report: Rotating Equipment
They offer improved reliability and energy efficiency
Applied technology can minimize heat generation without sacrificing leakage
Here are the options for proper seal face cooling
Columns
If you have ever had to struggle with unreliable blowers, you are not alone. Blowers are low-pressure machines with typical differential pressures of five to 20 psi (roughly 0.3 to 1.3 bar). Whether i..
The decline in the price for crude and finished products, especially transportation fuels, has reduced profitability for many refiners. In response to the harsh economic environment, many refineries h..
Letters to the Editor
Comparing Turbines My question refers to comparing API 611 type turbines to the integrally geared overhung turbines manufactured by German legacy manufacturer Kuehnle-Kopp-Kausch. The old brand (KKK)..
Trends and Resources
Black & Veatch and its consortium partners will provide engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for the Jordan Cove Energy Project, a proposed new liquefied natural gas (LNG) import ..
INEOS Technologies has signed two INEOS polyethylene technology licenses with newly formed Polimérica S.A. (a joint venture between Pequiven and Braskem). These plants will form part of Polim..
Delamine is progressing with a capacity expansion at its Delfzijl plant in the Netherlands which will eventually create (according to Delamine) one of the largest single (EDC-based) ethylene amines p..
    The Linde Group and its consortium partner Samsung Engineering, Korea, have a contract to build a turnkey ethylene plant in Dahej, India. The plant has been commissioned by OP..
Dresser Masoneilan has a contract with Bechtel's Oil, Gas & Chemicals global business unit to provide control valves for the Angola liquefied natural gas (LNG) project. Bechtel holds the engineering,..
Economy and petrochemicals The petrochemical industry has found that rapidly falling crude oil prices can be even more dangerous than the escalatin..
A new analysis scrutinizes the underlying trends in the US refining and marketing sectors. EPRINC produced the report in response to interest among policymakers on the capability of the US refining in..
The US government can spur the creation of a commercially competitive coal-to-liquids industry by fostering early development of plants that would produce transportation fuels from coal, according to ..
Process manufacturing industries are core to the development of India's economy, and there is no let up seen in efforts to advance grassroots projects or expansions that are underway. Newer projects a..
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- BASF unveils new HDPE brand Easiplas and HDPE construction milestones at Zhanjiang Verbund site 12/2
- Russia's Rosneft may delay refinery modernization due to high interest rates, taxes 12/2
- Solarig to develop €1.15-B, 75,000-tpy Turboleta SAF in Spain 12/2
- Maersk to use SAF to decarbonize airfreight travel 11/29
- Foundation stone laid for 1.2-MMtpy blue ammonia plant in Qatar 11/29