Maintenance activities and turnarounds often prove challenging to a facility’s electrical power system.
To push the project schedule, plant owners sometimes proceed the boxing up of columns without approval of the tray designer.
Rémy, S.,
Seyfried, L.,
Scappazzoni, E., Total;
Lukman, M.,
McMullen, J, AVEVA
International oil and gas (O&G) and hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI) companies are under great pressure to be profitable.
Two transformative drivers—global economic growth averaging more than 3%/yr and the world population expanding to more than 9 B by 2040—will have the net effect of adding another India and China to today’s global energy demand.
Early in our training as engineers, we developed the ability to collect and evaluate data.
In the January issue of Hydrocarbon Processing, the editorial comment focused on the roadmap to advancing ideas.
Hundertmark, T.,
Mayer, M.,
McNally, C.,
Simons, T. J.,
Witte, C., McKinsey & Co.
If plastics demand follows its current trajectory, global plastics-waste volumes would grow from 260 MMtpy in 2016 to 460 MMtpy by 2030, taking what is already a serious environmental problem to a new level.
With major projects (FIG. 1), alternatives are generally considered in overall project execution and in construction.
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.