January 2003

Better design practices can enhance process performance

Include these vital design characteristics for improved project costs

New simulation techniques can clearly define sulfur reactions and processes for TGTUs

New processing developments are overcoming operational obstacles of older units

Follow these guidelines to avoid leaks

Production-centered design improves, sustains total plant performance

All-electric-driven plants can offer many benefits

Centrifugal pumps and most other dynamic fluid machines incorporate impellers and similar rotating elements that generate axial thrust. This thrust must be taken up by a suitably dimens..

An Internet forum is a discussion area where folks with similar concerns get together to share their thoughts and questions on a topic of mutual concern. This site hosts virtual forums ..

It is the beginning of 2003, a good time for improving process safety. The new IEC 61511 standard for the process industries has passed voting on part 1 (the meat!). Most in the U.S. ex..

The process industries face enormous challenges such as cyclical markets with increasing volatility, an extraordinarily high distribution of manufacturing capital assets with their asso..

Ethanol blending methods receive patents Chevron U.S.A. Inc., a subsidiary of ChevronTexaco Corp., has received company patents on low-emissions gasolines containing ethanol and methods..

New company With the acquisition of DSM Petrochemicals by SABIC, all DSM Petrochemicals activities will continue under the company name - SABIC Euro Petrochemicals. All relevant l..

Snap-on root-cause, plugged-line and quick-check diagnostics Four new advanced diagnostics SNAP-ON applications have been added to the AMS predictive maintenance software. This reported..

FEEP contract in China Foster Wheeler Ltd.'s UK subsidiary has a contract for a front-end loading and engineering package (FEEP) with BASF Aktiengesellschaft and Huntsman International ..

Strategies for cost-effective H2S removal Full-color brochure from Gas Technology Products LLC highlights its liquid- and solid-media desulfurization technologies to sweeten gas strea..

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Here is a brief excerpt from remarks given by Paul Skinner, Managing Director, Royal Dutch / Shell Group. Speaking at an energy conference in London, he shared his candid insights into ..

A new study identifies the U.S., UK and Canada as the nations with the best overall environments for e-commerce. Sustained policy initiatives and inherent environmental factors are keys..

The most recent changes of the top leadership in China will not lead to any immediate major policy changes in the country, say analysts with FACTS, Inc., Honolulu, Hawaii. Hu Jintao is ..

Hiring may be down as the economy slows, but leading engineering, construction and architecture firms say they're spending more to train their senior executives. Respondents from 782 in..

Over 260 attended the EPA/NPRA Clean Diesel Implementation Workshop held in Houston Nov. 20 - 21, 2002, to discuss the fuels industry concerns about supply and distribution of ultra-low..

The technology can be used on any valve without shutting down the process

Within 30 months, the U.S. refining industry is expected to be producing ultra-low-sulfur diesel (ULSD) - 15-ppm sulfur. According to the ULSD rule, this fuel product has several import..