Most refineries have some sort of mass balance and loss control program in place for accounting, planning and scheduling, as well as for financial and operational evaluation purposes.
Over the past few months, Hydrocarbon Processing’s editorial staff has traveled thousands of miles to attend numerous conferences, events, users’ groups, groundbreakings, etc.
In the January issue of Hydrocarbon Processing, the editorial comment focused on the roadmap to advancing ideas.
Hundertmark, T.,
Mayer, M.,
McNally, C.,
Simons, T. J.,
Witte, C., McKinsey & Co.
If plastics demand follows its current trajectory, global plastics-waste volumes would grow from 260 MMtpy in 2016 to 460 MMtpy by 2030, taking what is already a serious environmental problem to a new level.
Genç, M.,
Gul, A.,
Avcilar, S.,
Öztürk, B.,
Önen, M. F.,
Akkuş, E., TÜPRAŞ
The fluid catalytic cracking unit (FCCU) is one of the main units providing gasoline with high-octane numbers to the refinery gasoline pool.
Europe’s refiners, through their industry organization Fuels Europe, have set out their long-term ambitions in a new program called Vision 2050.
Refineries and petrochemical plants contain some of the harshest environments on the planet.
Refineries cannot afford a sudden boiler failure (FIG. 1). Regularly assessing the condition of boilers is vital.
According to the editors of Hydrocarbon Processing, the downstream processing industry will witness substantial growth in new refining, petrochemical and gas processing/LNG capacities over the next several years.
Claroty has made several significant enhancements to its Continuous Threat Detection product.