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Maintenance & Reliability

HP Reliability: Selecting steam turbines in a ‘lean’ environment

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

We received a nice compliment recently from a reader in South America. He wrote: “I am a mechanical engineer working on power plant designs at a major corporation and admire your work as a writer..

HP Impact: European pipeline performance

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Thinnes, Billy

European oil industry group CONCAWE has collected 40 years of spillage data on European cross-country oil pipelines with particular regard to spillages volume, cleanup and recovery, environmental cons..

Praxair sells US advanced components unit to NGK

Praxair has sold its advanced components business to Fremont, Calif.-based FM Industries, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Japan’s NGK Insulators. The advanced components business designs, engineers, manufactures and supplies electrostatic chucks (ESCs) and critical chamber components for semiconductor processing equipment.

Maintenance continues at BP Texas City refinery alkylation unit - source

Routine maintenance at an alkylation unit is ongoing at BP’s oil refinery in Texas City, Texas, a person familiar with operations at the plant said on Monday. The refinery is able to process up to 406,570 bpd of crude oil.

Case history: Replacement of existing pressure vessel

Fluor Canada Ltd.: Fearn, D.  |  McKay, J.

Installing new equipment involves more processes to ensure safety and to meet new codes

Consider lobe blowers combined with compressors

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

New blower meets low-pressure applications cost-effectively

Case 66: Fiberglass mixing tank flexing vibration

Consulting Engineer: Sofronas, A.

The design of fiberglass and polymer tanks had many problems in the 1980s. Most of these problems were resolved with experience, new materials and manufacturing techniques, along with new national con..

HP Reliability: Dealing with asset management and life extension

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

The business manager for an asset management solutions (AMS) firm in the Middle East faced a big task. He had been asked to execute a major project for an oil and gas producer and wanted to have his q..

HP Innovations: HPInnovations

New diode laser caters to range of applicationsServomex Group’s SERVOTOUGH LaserCompact 2900 (Fig. 1), a tuneable diode laser (TDL), is designed to deliver true continuous in-situ monitoring acro..

Consider these guides for stress relieving of vertical towers

Ultragen Ltd.: Ayari, H.  |  Truong, K.T.  |  Truong, D.

This case history investigates all required post-weld heat treatment for an existing column