Pumps
Process design consideration for a deep-cut vacuum distillation unit—Part 2
Recently, many US refineries have been reconfigured to process heavy opportunistic sour crudes.
Conceptualizing a mega-integrated refinery and petrochemical complex: A case study
<i>Integration</i> is the new keyword for sustainability and profit in today’s oil and gas market scenario.
Understand API and ASME standards to prevent oversizing PSVs
If you have ever sized or selected a pressure safety relief valve (PSV) using vendor sizing programs or hand calculations, you have probably run into a strange anomaly.
Improve refinery production and efficiency with asset monitoring
The sheer volume of equipment in a refinery—from vessels, columns, huge structures and mazes of pipes to pumps, valves, controllers and instruments—is staggering.
Reconstruct a vacuum column injector system using computer modeling—Part 1
Steam ejector vacuum systems are the most common means of creating and maintaining a vacuum in the process units of oil and gas processing facilities.
Amine pumps upgraded for improved operations and reliability
A gas processing plant in Malaysia eliminated a source of expensive failures in its acid gas removal unit (AGRU).
Software: Operations intelligence software for real-time visibility
The tiny company town of Sinclair sits in south-central Wyoming.
Process safety as a profit center?
In today’s economic environment, new capital spending is harder to find than loose change buried under the couch cushions.
Hydrocarbon Processing Awards
<i>Hydrocarbon Processing,</i> the downstream processing sector’s leading technical publication, has announced the winners for its second annual awards.
Technical considerations for the Heydar Aliyev refinery revamp
The following case study describes the early development phases of SOCAR’s ongoing major revamp project at the Heydar Aliyev Refinery (HAR) in Baku, Azerbaijan, and its interface with the associated Azerikimya (AZK) steam cracking complex near Sumgait. References are made to the related SOCAR polymer project in Sumgayit, as well.
- Honeywell to supply integrated automation systems for flagship UK carbon capture projects 12/4
- Aduro Clean Technologies collaborates with ECOCE to advance plastics recycling in Mexico 12/4
- FincoEnergies launches GoodFuels B15: A reliable and compliant drop-in biofuel for inland shipping 12/4
- DevvStream, Southern Energy Renewables target low-cost, carbon-negative SAF and green methanol 12/4
- AFPM: Revised fuel economy standards would put CAFE back on solid legal footing 12/4
- ITT introduced a secondary containment system for its ICM metallic magnetic drive process pump 12/4
