Flare systems are used in refineries and chemical plants as a last line of defense for the plant by burning all unwanted gases and liquid during any upset or emergency condition.
Staffers in many plants in modern industry are assigned to job functions related to reliability assessment and implementation.
A previous survey identified installation mishaps to be one of the top five causes of tower malfunctions.
Given increasingly stringent automotive specifications and the advent of the International Maritime Organization’s 2020 sulfur regulations, the continued decrease in Group I base stocks demand should come as no surprise for anyone in the industry.
PricewaterhouseCoopers reports that, since 2014, the oil and gas industry has put off noncritical spending to reduce costs.
In the February issue of Hydrocarbon Processing, the editors asked our global readership what topics they would like to hear on the publication’s new podcast series: The Main Column.
Chung, W., Well Resources Inc.;
Zhang, R., Beijing Zhongshi Aojie Petroleum Technology Co.;
Song, D., PetroChina Harbin Petrochemical Co.
Market and regulatory factors are pressuring refiners to adopt safe and sustainable processes for the production of clean-burning and environmentally friendly fuels.
A catastrophic failure is defined (for this article) as a failure where lives have been lost and human causes have been a factor.
The world population is expected to reach 9.2 billion people by 2040,1 and the global GDP is also likely to double over that same period.
Weeks before a planned overhaul of its coker unit, a synthetic crude plant’s main air blower for the furnace failed, throwing the engineers’ plans into disarray.