The world is increasingly turning its attention to alternative fuels in the quest for net-zero emissions, and hydrogen (H2) is at the forefront of this transformative shift. This article will discuss the benefits of H2, comparisons to alternative energies, sustainability and environmental implications, and H2’s potential.
This article examines the application of solvent absorption-based post combustion capture for refinery/site-specific factors and quantifies the impact this will have on CCS CAPEX/OPEX. This analysis helps to determine the optimum approach for any individual refinery site.
Traces of particulate mercury sulfide (HgS) in stabilized crude oils transform to elemental mercury below 400°C in refinery distillation units. The authors evaluated this transformation and measured reaction rates and activation energies in crude oil and Hg-spiked mineral oil, using glass vessels at atmospheric pressure and a microunit at 1,000 psig.
Refiners have used offline process models for decades. The next generation of solutions is anticipated to operate automatically, integrate with legacy systems and provide transparency site-wide.
Prompt engineering is an emerging discipline at the intersection of AI and process engineering and will undoubtedly contribute to the hydrocarbon and green molecules processing industries. Parts 1 and 2 (October 2024) of this article explore and provide a glimpse of how this technique can help process engineers and operators to manage the power of advanced AI models to optimize processes, contribute to solve complex problems, and improve operational efficiency in refineries and petrochemical plants.
The authors’ company has developed a novel approach with a digital algorithm to effectively estimate the current cyclone erosion and predict future erosion based on operating conditions. With this approach, refiners get an automatic way to better predict abrasion lining erosion for both reactors and regenerator cyclones daily from digital analytics, thus helping refiners quantify their monitoring.
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Project: | Long Son Petrochemicals Complex |
Location: | Long Son, Vietnam |
Operator: | Siam Cement Group |
Cost: | $5.4 B |
Capacity: | 1.65 MMtpy |
Completion date: | completionDate |
Status: | Under Construction |
Project: | Huizhou Petrochemical Complex |
Location: | Huizhou, China |
Operator: | ExxonMobil |
Cost: | $10 B |
Capacity: | 1.6 MMtpy |
Completion date: | completionDate |
Status: | Under construction |
Project: | Visakh Refinery |
Location: | Visakhapatnam, India |
Operator: | Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd. |
Cost: | $3.1 B |
Capacity: | 134,000 bpd |
Completion date: | completionDate |
Status: | Under Construction |
Project: | LyondellBasell PO/TBA Complex |
Location: | Channelview, Texas (U.S.) |
Operator: | LyondellBasell |
Cost: | $2.4 B |
Capacity: | 1.47 MMtpy |
Completion date: | completionDate |
Status: | Under Construction |
Discover how several global impacts—such as Russia’s war in Ukraine, supply chain crises and inflation—have and will impact spending and business activity in the global petrochemicals, refining and natural gas/LNG industries. HPI MARKET DATA 2023 is the processing industry’s most trusted forecast of capital, maintenance and operating expenditures.
This handbook-type industry reference source is produced by the staff of Hydrocarbon Processing. It contains flow diagrams and descriptions of more than 170 commercially viable gas processing processes from 25 licensors. Included are drying, treating, dehydrogenation, effluent cleanup, hydrogen, liquefied natural gas, syngas, sulfur, liquid treating, etc. Each process description includes a flow diagram as well as application, economics and licensor information. The processes are indexed by process and contributing company.
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