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Sponsored Digital Feature: Cut the carbon and boost sustainability

This article details Atlas Copco's Cut the Carbon solutions initiative and how they it is supporting decarbonization efforts around the world.

Optimization for the trigeneration of industrial waste

University of Nottingham Malaysia, Center for Green Technologies: Chua, X. Y.  |  Foo, D.C.Y.  |  Ramanath, T.

Many corporations are moving toward sustainable operations for their processes. One alternative pathway to reduce fossil fuels consumption in a processing plant is through harvesting waste heat from industrial waste through combined heat and power (CHP), or what is commonly known as cogeneration or polygeneration.

Lummus Technology to provide proprietary heaters to Amiral petrochemical complex in Saudi Arabia

Lummus Technology announced a contract award from Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. Ltd. to provide eight proprietary Short Residence Time (SRT®) ethylene cracking heaters at SATORP's Amiral petrochemical complex in Saudi Arabia.

Optimizing combustion processes for safety and efficiency

AMETEK Process Instruments: Tallon, T.

Combustion processes are critical for producing heat and power in nearly every industry.

Convection section cleaning approach achieves results at refineries worldwide

Integrated Global Services: Donson, S.  |  Korobeinikov. A.

Inefficient heat transfer in the convection section of a process heater is readily evident by an increase in stack temperature beyond design parameters.

Innovations: New AI-powered carbon emissions management software

GE Vernova’s Digital business has released its CERius™, a carbon emissions management software designed to help energy companies progress toward their net-zero goals using data precision and abatement planning capabilities.

Digital Feature: Enhancing ethylene cracker radiant tube integrity through innovative robotic inspection

Radiant tube failure ranks as a primary cause of unplanned shutdowns in ethylene cracking furnaces. This article examines tube failures via carburization, along with a proprietary technology that provides comprehensive multi-aspect inspection data to mitigate ethylene radiant tube failures.

A CFD study on the effect of operating an SMR furnace without one of the flue gas tunnels A

Blasch Precision Ceramics: Russell, W.

A computational fluid dynamics study was performed on a theoretical reforming furnace to determine the comparative results of flow uniformity in flue gas tunnels with and without a standing tunnel in the outer position.

Lummus launches upgraded Helixchanger technology

Lummus Technology announced the launch of its latest heat exchanger technology, the Helixchanger 2.0 system.

Take the mystery out of running your LNG plant

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.: Roberts, M . J.  |  Schmidt, W. P.  |  Gripp, S.

Many natural gas liquefaction plants with production capacities ranging from 0.5 MMtpy to 8 MMtpy use mixed refrigerants to cool and liquefy the feed.