Heat Transfer
Alfa Laval to supply Australia LNG heat exchangers
The Alfa Laval compact heat exchangers will be used in a new major gas processing facility in Australia, where they will recover and reuse heat in the gas cleaning process, prior to the liquefaction. By reusing heat, the heat exchangers will contribute to bringing down energy consumption and CO2 emissions.
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Invensys acquires Spiral SoftwareInvensys Operations Management has acquired Spiral Software, a privately held company headquartered in Cambridge, UK. Spiral Software provides integrated solutions ran..
DuPont acquires KVT wet gas sulfuric acid process
DuPont says the acquisition of the technology demonstrates a commitment to the wet gas marketplace, where the company is currently executing projects with feed gas sources ranging from coal gasification to viscose production to nonferrous metallurgical off-gas processing.
HP Integration Strategies: The energy water nexus
Whether or not you subscribe to the global warming and “peak oil” arguments, it is clear to almost everyone in the industrial world that “business as usual” is not sustainable inde..
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Neste Oil makes progress on microbial oil plantFinland’s Neste Oil recently completed the first phase of a pilot plant for producing microbial oil. The €8 million plant is expected to be com..
Optimize desulfurization of gasoline via advanced process control techniques
This case history describes the development of the inferential models used in open-loop and closed-loop applications, laboratory and analyzer update mechanisms, and APC model generation.
Identify and control excess air from process heaters
Process heaters are the largest consumers of energy in most plants. A refinery, on average, burns approximately 2 billion Btu/hr of fuel in fired heaters. The total quantity of fuel burned (heat relea..
Foster Wheeler to design Korean steam generator
A subsidiary of Foster Wheeler AG's Global Power group has been awarded a contract by Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co. Ltd. for cooperation in the design of a circulating fluidized-bed steam generator for Korea South East Power Co. Ltd.
Foster Wheeler to supply heat recovery steam generators in Mexico
Foster Wheeler will design, supply and provide advisory services for erection and start-up of the two HRSGs, which will be coupled to two LM 6000PF combustion turbines. Delivery is scheduled for mid-2013.
Upgrade heavy oil more cost-efficiently
A new technology can economically upgrade and significantly improve the properties of heavy oil by reducing viscosity, increasing gravity and removing contaminants.
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