With an increase in concern for the environment, countries around the world are implementing stringent environmental regulations and are continuously pressuring refiners to reduce the amount of sulfur in transportation fuels—primarily gasoline and diesel—to combat airborne pollution caused by vehicles.
In the absence of vendor quotations or detailed engineering, preliminary dimensions of skids or packages can be estimated quickly using the ratio method.
In the February issue of Hydrocarbon Processing, our editors provided the results of Hydrocarbon Processing’s survey on the challenges that the downstream processing industry may face this year.
Romano, R.,
Cortesi, M.,
Magarotto, A.,
Minnucci, C.,
Pinto, A., Baker Hughes;
Zannori, R.,
Tittobello, A.,
Semeraro, G., TechnipFMC
Digital transformation offers the chance to reorganize and develop new models of collaboration that fully leverage the opportunities offered by digital technologies and their benefits across the oil and gas business—particularly for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractors.
Larger plants typically have planners and maintenance supervisors onsite, as well as operations personnel.
Shargay, C.,
Carmona, R. K.,
Daru, K.,
Desai, J.,
Irfan, M., Fluor;
Panchal, A., Reliance Industries Ltd.
For pressure vessels, heat exchangers and piping in corrosive services, the materials in contact with the process are often required to be high alloys to provide a reliable service life.
Design guidelines for rigging and transporting large process columns are outlined in this article, along with the various aspects that should be considered during the initial design phase of equipment.
When contractors, engineers and operations teams at downstream processing plants do not work together at optimal efficiency, it can present serious problems.