Alkylation is a process used to produce highly branched isoparaffins from the reaction of lighter olefins and isobutane in the presence of sulfuric acid as a catalyst.
Over the past five years, the industrial evolution has been propelled by the same technologies that have dramatically changed our private lives.
For nearly a decade, capital investments in new petrochemical capacity have skyrocketed. This
The refining industry links the upstream production of crude oil with the end markets for fuel products, as well as for the petrochemical/chemical industry.
Refineries and chemical processing plants are complicated to model, control and optimize.
A common misconception in largescale process manufacturing is that minimizing downtime by increasing reliability is the key to increasing profitability.
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant, short-term disruption to the chemical industry, potentially leading to long-term impacts.
TechnipFMC has begun construction on Assiut National Oil Processing Co.’s new hydrocracking complex in Egypt.
With the increasing prominence of hydrogen technologies circulating into the global market, Gulf Energy Information—publisher of Hydrocarbon Processing and Gas Processing & LNG—has launched our latest publication: H2Tech.