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Reliability: When slow-rolling machines can cause failures, and how to avoid them

Hydrocarbon Processing / December 2019
Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.
Maintenance & Reliability / Refining / Equipment / Furnaces / Pumps / Rotating Equipment / Turbines

All the book learning in the world will fail if we do not use common sense. We could also say that we need to think things through and should recognize that intuitive logic can lead us astray. If that sounds like semantic banter, let us zero in on three practical field examples that illustrate the issues at hand.

Consider installing a VFD to increase reliability and savings

Hydrocarbon Processing / December 2019
Petronor: Vila Forteza, M.
Maintenance & Reliability / Turbines / Drivers

The Petronor oil refinery is in the north of Spain and is part of REPSOL Group. In 2019, the facility upgraded the driver of a reformer’s draft fan from a general-purpose steam turbine and gearbox to a variable frequency drive (VFD) electric motor.

Hydrocarbon Processing Awards Winners

Hydrocarbon Processing / November 2019
Environment & Safety / Gas Processing/LNG / Maintenance & Reliability / Petrochemicals / Process Control / Process Optimization / Project Management / Refining / Analyzers / Aromatics / Biofuels / Carbon Management / Catalysts / Construction / Corrosion / Diesel / Distillation / Economics / Engineering & Design / Environment / Equipment / Gasoline / Greenhouse Gases / Heat Transfer / Hydrocracking / Hydrogen / Hydrotreating / Information Systems / Loss Prevention / Management / Natural Gas / Octane / People / Polymers / Products / Pumps / Reactors / Rotating Equipment / Safety / Sulfur / Treating / Turbines / Valves / Americas / Asia/Pacific / Europe / Middle East

<i>Hydrocarbon Processing,</i> the downstream processing sector’s leading technical publication, has announced the winners for its third annual awards. The <i>HP</i> Awards celebrate innovative technologies and people that have been instrumental in improving facility operations over the past year.

Hydrocarbon Processing Awards

Hydrocarbon Processing / September 2019
Petrochemicals / Refining / Management / Information Systems / Acid Gas Removal / Africa / Americas / Analyzers / Aromatics / Asia/Pacific / Biofuels / Boilers / Carbon Management / Catalysts / Cetane / Corrosion / Construction / Compressors / Crude oil / Desulfurization / Diesel / Distillation / Drivers / Drying / Economics / Engineering & Design / Environment / Environment & Safety / Equipment / Europe / Gas Processing/LNG / Gasification / Gasoline / Greenhouse Gases / Heat Transfer / Hydrotreating / Loss Prevention / Maintenance & Reliability / Middle East / Motors / Naphtha / Natural Gas / Octane / People / Piping / Polymers / Process Control / Process Optimization / Products / Project Management / Pumps / Reactors / Rotating Equipment / Safety / Sulfur / Treating / Turbines / Utilities / Valves

<i>Hydrocarbon Processing,</i> the downstream processing sector’s leading technical publication, has announced the finalists for its third annual awards.

Separate fine solid particles from dusty air with a uniflow cyclone

Hydrocarbon Processing / May 2019
TATA Consulting Engineers Ltd.: Sakthivel, S.
Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi: Pitchumani, B.
Process Optimization / Environment / Rotating Equipment / Turbines

Fine particles are usually collected by dry collectors, wet collectors, electrostatic precipitators and filters, at the commercial level.

Understand net gas compressor control logic from a process engineering standpoint

Hydrocarbon Processing / March 2019
GS Engineering and Construction: Hong, R.  |  Chang, G. S.
Petrochemicals / Process Control / Process Optimization / Refining / Compressors / Engineering & Design / Pumps / Turbines

In a refinery or petrochemical plant, certain equipment can create “gray areas” between process engineers and instrument engineers.

Improve refinery production and efficiency with asset monitoring

Hydrocarbon Processing / November 2018
Emerson Automation Solutions: Donnangelo, M.
Analyzers / Economics / Engineering & Design / Environment / Equipment / Information Systems / Loss Prevention / Management / Motors / Products / Pumps / Rotating Equipment / Safety / Turbines / Utilities / Valves / Refining / Process Control / Maintenance & Reliability

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.

Hydrocarbon Processing Awards

Hydrocarbon Processing / September 2018
Acid Gas Removal / Africa / Americas / Analyzers / Aromatics / Asia/Pacific / Catalysts / Construction / Corrosion / Desulfurization / Distillation / Economics / Engineering & Design / Environment / Environment & Safety / Equipment / Information Systems / Gas Processing/LNG / Maintenance & Reliability / Loss Prevention / Management / Natural Gas / Octane / People / Process Control / Process Optimization / Project Management / Products / Pumps / Reactors / Refining / Rotating Equipment / Safety / Sulfur / Treating / Turbines / Valves / Middle East / Europe

<i>Hydrocarbon Processing,</i> the downstream processing sector’s leading technical publication, has announced the winners for its second annual awards.

Business Trends: A strategic energy solution

Hydrocarbon Processing / August 2018
Foster Wheeler: Giglio, R.
Environment & Safety / Biofuels / Corrosion / Distillation / Economics / Engineering & Design / Environment / Equipment / Greenhouse Gases / Products / Process Optimization / Refining / Turbines / Utilities / Americas / Middle East

Refining is the process of separating crude oil into different hydrocarbon groups through distillation.

Hydrocarbon Processing Awards

Hydrocarbon Processing / August 2018
Acid Gas Removal / Analyzers / Catalysts / Cetane / Construction / Corrosion / Crude oil / Desulfurization / Diesel / Distillation / Economics / Engineering & Design / Environment / Environment & Safety / Equipment / Gasoline / Gas Processing/LNG / Greenhouse Gases / Heat Transfer / Hydrocracking / Hydrogen / Information Systems / Loss Prevention / Maintenance & Reliability / Management / Middle East / Europe / Africa / Americas / Asia/Pacific / Natural Gas / Octane / People / Process Control / Process Optimization / Polymers / Products / Pumps / Reactors / Refining / Rotating Equipment / Safety / Sulfur / Treating / Turbines / Utilities / Valves

<i>Hydrocarbon Processing</i>, the downstream processing sector’s leading technical publication, has announced the finalists for its second annual awards.