March 2016

Enhancing regeneration in amine treating systems has proven beneficial in many applications by improving operations and relieving design limitations via reduced steamrates and/or improved treating performance.

This article will examine the impact of Tier 3 regulations on gasoline blending at refineries and terminals, and illustrate options that can contribute to compliance while keeping costs under control.

As awareness of environmental issues increases to new levels, all emissions sources in industrial facilities are falling under more scrutiny than ever before.

The fuel gas mixing drum is an integral part of many plants, especially LNG plants.

In a Saudi International Petrochemical Co. petrochemical plant, fired heaters are designed to supply heat duty at 7 MW and are one of the major consumers of energy.

There are many potential “rules,” or guidelines, for the safe operation of process heaters.

This example shows a simple method by which boiler leaks can be detected before it is too late.

Today’s industrial process control applications increasingly use automated systems to optimize operations and ensure a safer, more productive process.

   Methanex’s methanol facility in Trinidad.

Corrosion is a major maintenance and reliability concern because it has the potential to impact not only plant operations and costs, but also the environment and worker health and safety.

We welcome and thrive on questions from reliability engineers and try to answer some as best we can.

Process plants collect enormous amounts of data, both from the sensors connected to the control system and from other sources, including edge devices in the plant and remote devices in the cloud.

The final investigation report on the massive West Fertilizer Co. fire and explosion in 2013 serves notice to the chemical industry that, while progress has been made, significant gaps often still remain within site safety protocols.

The oil and gas sector is under pressure to maintain operating margins. Although oil prices have stabilized in recent months, they have, nonetheless, fallen dramatically in the last year. This has bee..

Pressure vessels, piping and fabricated structures adhering to recognized welding codes rarely fail in static loading, unless they are damaged or severely overloaded.

As the exclusive show daily provider for the AFPM Annual Meeting, Hydrocarbon Processing will be live at the meeting in San Francisco with full coverage of all conference presentations.

This month’s Business Trends focuses on five major trends affecting the downstream industry. These include: a forecast on global demand for industrial valves to 2020, how the approval of Chinese teapot refinery crude import licenses could lead to a fuel supply glut, the surge in US ammonia and urea plant construction, the start of Nigeria’s DSDP program and the consolidation of Japan's refining industry.

Refinery margins weakened in the US due to lower winter demand.

Presently, Hydrocarbon Processing’s Construction Boxscore Database is tracking over 2,100 projects around the world.

Clariant has appointed Britta Fuenfstueck as a new member of its executive committee.