In late June, Hydrocarbon Processing announced the finalists for its third annual awards.
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.
Relief calculation is one of the most discussed aspects of chemical engineering design.
Process industries across the globe grapple with producing dozens or even hundreds of different products.
Soare, M.,
Minea, I-S.,
Predoi, M. V.,
Bunesco, C.,
Diba, C., Nuclear NDT Research & Services Srl
Coke drums are expensive equipment with a long manufacturing cycle, so a realistic and accurate life prediction can save significant time and money.
Pyne, T., Reliability and Asset Strategy Specialist
Asset life assessment (ALA) has become a strategic tool for process plants (e.g., petrochemical, chemical, and oil and gas) to determine the extent of degradation and the ability of assets to bear static and dynamic loads while sustaining the desired production processes.
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.
Some basic, yet insightful, machinery reliability tracking tools are introduced here that can be developed with common spreadsheet applications, such as Excel.
It seems that all software initiatives in the energy and chemical industries are now tagged with the name “digitalization.”