Environment & Safety Gas Processing/LNG Maintenance & Reliability Petrochemicals Process Control Process Optimization Project Management Refining

Maintenance & Reliability

Consider closed–loop oil-mist lubrication

Lubrication Systems Company: Ehlert, D.

A growing trend is migrating to this new lubricating system for rotating equipment

HP Reliability: How do you size expansion chambers (assuming it is needed)

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

Expansion chambers (Fig. 1) are designed to restrict pressure increase in closed volumes. From basic physics, we, of course, know that the pressure in a closed volume increases as temperature goes up...

Bayer invests $120mn in environmental, safety upgrades at Texas chemical site

Bayer MaterialScience will invest $120mn into environmental and safety improvements at its Baytown chemical site in Texas – the company’s largest US manufacturing facility.

Deferred maintenance causes upsurge in pump failures

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

Not addressing the root cause of a failure puts resources and employees at risk

Avoid costly engineering faults, missteps and miscalculations

Alon USA: Sanghavi, K.

Experience does count, especially in achieving success in capital and revamp projects

Nickel recycle: Extending service life for reformer tubes

Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd.: Kunte, S. B.

Case studies investigate methods to conserve high-nickel tubes for fertilizer facilities

Consider new materials for ethylene furnace applications

Manoir Industries: Verdier, G.  |  Carpentier, F.

An innovative metallurgy solves maintenance issues

Testing and repair options for critical dry-gas seal: Updates

AESSEAL plc: Carmody, C.

Do your research when sending compressor seals out for renovations

How to justify root-cause failure analysis for pumps

Flint Hills Resources, L.P.: Perez, R. X.

New method uses annualized risk to determine RCFA analysis levels

Optimize reordering of critical raw materials and parts

University of Mondragon: Goti, A.  |  Zabaleta, N.
Polytechnic University of Madrid: Garcia, A.  |  Ortega-Mier, M.
Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava: Uradnicek, J.

New models evaluate the ‘total’ costs in receiving and storing materials for a refinery