Digital transformation is a broad term that can mean vastly different things to different people.
Russia hopes to become one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of petrochemicals and LPG by 2025 by doubling its domestic output and exports.
In the practice of engineering, we sometimes wish for better hindsight or foresight.
By universal agreement, the safety and reliability of facilities in the hydrocarbon processing industry—and most other industrial plants—are of highest importance.
The volatile impact of the coronavirus pandemic hit at the same time the petrochemical industry was entering a downcycle.
Where process fluid must be maintained within a certain operating temperature window, the piping will likely require the application of a thermal maintenance system.
A critical objective of engineers who design an automatic protection system is to lower the false trip rate and to lower a key metric called average probability of failure on demand (PFDavg).
In 1896, Whitham1 reported the successful use of twisted tapes (originally called retarders, and now also called turbulators) to increase heat transfer in boiler fire tubes—their effectiveness in increasing heat transfer is well known.
It is often incorrectly assumed that the burner tile is simply a piece of refractory or firebrick. Nothing could be further from the truth.