In late June, Hydrocarbon Processing announced the finalists for its third annual awards.
Hydrocarbon Processing sat down with senior-level executives of Merichem Company, Cyndie Fredrick (CF) and Kathy Young (KY), Senior Vice Presidents and General Managers of Merichem’s two business units, to discuss the state of the downstream industry, where it is heading in the future and how their company is helping operators meet their sustainability goals.
Oil refineries and petrochemical plants rely on steam systems to maintain utility and process unit operations.
From refining to chemical production processes, heaters play an essential role in hydrocarbon processing applications.
Process industries across the globe grapple with producing dozens or even hundreds of different products.
The plate-and-shell (P&S) heat exchanger has three significant advantages over the shell-and-tube (S&T) type traditionally used in refinery processes.
It is always a challenge to reconfigure and resize existing reboilers, especially vertical thermosiphon ones, for the revised design and operating conditions of a brownfield project, since hydraulics external to the reboiler must match the reboiler hydraulics under the revamped conditions to ensure trouble-free operation.
The chemical industry uses flush rings for diaphragm seals.
How would you measure the volume of a can of soup? The height should work, but what about diameter? Or, you can possibly just trust what the manufacturer has told you on the label.
Pump lubrication deficiencies are often denied, and the outstanding reliability performance of oil mist is vastly underreported.