October 2009

Here are several useful examples

Providing a common workspace improves data integration

Here's how the approach helps refinery scheduling and also contributes to business-wide SOA adoption

The ANN models were more accurate than regression models

The primary benefit was an increase in reformate octane barrel yield from operating the plant at its economic constraints

Improved catalyst systems strike a new balance to increase yields with greater selectivity for end-products

Understanding the root causes of time delay

Consider this "integrity-only-specific" innovative methodology

First, thanks to Dr. Y. Zak Friedman1 for referencing my July 1997 HP editorial.2 I commend him for using HP publications from more than a decade ago in his editorial. While I appreciate Dr. Friedman'..

Some multistage centrifugal pumps are designed with relatively slender shafts and operate at speeds above the so-called rotor critical. When that is the case and as the pump comes up to operating spee..

Some 800,000 bpd (800 Mbpd) of refinery expansion capacity, which faded and disappeared from the radar of the OECD's energy forecasts last year, is now back. There was quite a fanfare over capacity re..

The Aker Solutions and IHI partnership has received a "signed notice of substantial completion" for the Cameron LNG liquefied natural gas receipt terminal near Lake Charles, Louisiana. The Cameron LNG..

  Alfa Laval has received an order for compact heat exchangers from one of the major refineries in Russia. The order value is about SEK 110 million and delivery is scheduled for 2010. The Alfa La..

KBR has a contract with ConocoPhillips and Saudi Aramco to provide detailed engineering and procurement services for the utilities package and the interconnecting systems and pipe racks for the compan..

Toyo Engineering Corp. has a contract with BASF-YPC Co. Ltd. for works related to the construction of a petrochemical plant in Nanjing, China. This project aims to meet the increasing demand in China ..

Oil demand up in 2010 Global oil demand will grow next year for the first time since 2007, says a recent report from IHS Cambridge Energy Research ..

In advance of the US Senate's debate on climate change legislation, two studies have been commissioned to emphasize the contributions the natural gas industry makes to the US economy. The first, produ..

Within the last decade, Iran has proposed a number of LNG projects that were targeted to supply 73 million tpy of new LNG into the global market. However, a new analysis from FACTS Global Energy (FGE)..

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) are issuing a joint proposal to establish a program consisti..

ISA Expo 2009 The International Society of Automation (ISA) has announced the co-location of several events throughout the week at ISA Expo 2009 be..

JOHN CUSIMANO, Guest Columnist       Comments? Write: jcusimano@exida.com         Thanks to IEC 61511 ..

Robert A. Ashworth, Guest Columnist    Comments? Write: editorial@HydrocarbonProcessing.com Some say human-made (anthropogenic) carbon dioxide (CO2) emiss..