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Equipment

Refineries’ pandemic turmoil—KNPC’s gasoline demand: Opportunities and challenges

Kuwait National Petroleum Co.: Matar, M. B.  |  Alqallaf, D. A.  |  Alesmail, I.  |  Al-Mutairi, F.

The COVID-19 pandemic is regarded as one of the most exceedingly difficult challenges faced in the oil and gas industry's history.

Reliable vacuum distillation requires reliable ejector system performance

Graham Corp.: Lines, J. R.

A fuels-oriented crude oil refinery must have good performance from its vacuum distillation section to deliver targeted yield and throughput.

Beyond sequestration: Changing CO2 from a problem to a solution—Part 1: CO2 as a refrigerant

Fluor: Gould, C.  |  Joyner, R.  |  Deshmukh, A.

As the world continues along its energy transition trajectory, demand for blue hydrogen and reduced carbon emissions will make high-purity carbon dioxide streams available in many process plants.

Riding the dragon: Sulfur plant thermal reactor temperature measurement

Optimized Gas Treating, Inc.: Jensen, D. R.  |  Hatcher, N. A.  |  Bailey, M. D.
Delta Controls Corp.: Coady, M.

Of all the fundamental measured process variables, temperature is perhaps the most reliable.

A simplified dynamic approach for storage tank thermal inbreathing rates

Covestro: Kim, J. S.  |  Haines, R. J.
Bechtel: Lopez, J. P.

Storage tanks that experience sudden heavy rain on what was a hot sunny day can be damaged due to inadequate venting devices.

Connected workers can be empowered by digital transformation

Shiftconnector: Eschbach, A.

Plant safety, product quality and efficient operations in oil and gas processing rely on accurate knowledge transfer between teams and across shifts.

Don’t just survive: Thrive with advanced process control

Emerson: Beebe, D.
Aspen Technology: Kalafatis, A.

There is a new adage in process manufacturing circles, and it resonates particularly deeply in the hydrocarbon industry: If you do not like market factors today, just wait a month.

Technologies helping the petrochemicals/organic chemicals sectors adhere to new flaring regulations

Thermo Fisher Scientific: Thermo Fisher Scientific

Industrial plants, chemical companies, refineries, the coal industry and landfills practice gas flaring as a safety measure to relieve pressure or dispose of excess gases. 

Innovations

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Rhodes, Mike

The automation experts at ATC Diversified Electronics, maker of devices for automation, motor protection, process monitoring and power quality, have introduced the new MPA2 motor protection analyzer.

Scientists use quantum device to slow down simulated chemical reaction 100 billion times

Scientists at the University of Sydney have, for the first time, used a quantum computer to engineer and directly observe a process critical in chemical reactions by slowing it down by a factor of 100 billion times.