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.
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.
The chemical industry uses flush rings for diaphragm seals.
Three primary drivers exist for recycling polyethylene terephalate (PET) bottles.
IMO 2020 is posing big questions about significant issues, and clear answers are proving difficult to find.
The growth of China’s chemical industry over the past 30 yr has been truly astonishing.
Accepting that incidents are inevitable can be considered a form of institutionalized normalization of deviance.
Much has been written in recent years about the need for refineries to embrace the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).