Pinch analysis provides techniques for heat integration to design the heat exchanger network (HEN), not only for grassroots design but also to retrofit an existing system and optimize the process.
Opportunities are always available to decrease energy consumption in process units.
Refinery hydrofining units must undergo planned and emergency shutdowns for catalyst changeover.
When it comes to cooling towers, when should modular be considered?
Hydrocarbon Processing, the downstream processing sector’s leading technical publication, has announced the finalists for its third annual awards.
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.
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.
Much has been written in recent years about the need for refineries to embrace the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).
The energy transition is gathering momentum as pressure from society leads policy makers and investors to demand faster and deeper cuts to carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from all industrial sectors.