August 2010

Here are the reasons and remedial actions

The goals were achieved by using alloys with superior corrosion resistance

It facilitates predicting compressor system performance

Upgrades substantially increased MTBR

Take a look at these environmental and economic paybacks

Better recovery definition of C3s and C4s from gas absorber/stripper can lower costs

In revamp projects, better energy integration provides more benefits with less capital investment and lower operating costs

Use these calculations for a specific tank calibration

The United Steelworkers Union (USW) issued a press release chastising the oil industry for the series of fires and explosions that keep happening at US refineries. USW pointed out that there has been ..

In April 2010, I followed Allan Kern’s automation reassessment editorial1 with a call to renew the practice of process control and IT in the HPI. Now I follow his thoughtful July 2010 editorial2 ..

In most small machines there is a need to limit both contaminant ingress and oil leakage. Inexpensive lip seals are sometimes used for sealing at the bearing housing, but lip seals typically last only..

Hydrocarbon Processing’s International Refining Conference (IRC) debuted June 21–23 in Rome, Italy. Hosted by eni, the event included a two-day, two-track technical conference as well as an ..

Enterprise Products Partners’ refined products storage facility in Port Arthur, Texas, which was built to support the expansion of a nearby refinery, has commenced commercial operations and recei..

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Foster Wheeler AG&#146;s Global Engineering and Construction Group has a feasibility study and front-end engineering design (FEED) contract with the Iraqi Ministry of Oil for a new grassroots refinery..

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Technip has three lump sum turnkey contracts from Mangalore Refinery & Petrochemicals Ltd. (MRPL). The contracts are worth a total value of approximately &#128;25 million. They are for an expansion pr..

Natural gas will play a leading role in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions over the next several decades, largely by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with highly efficient combined-cycle gas ge..

The global programmable logic controller (PLC) and PLC-based programmable automation controller (PAC) market declined significantly across all regions of the world in 2009. The market declined in emer..

The stackable structural reactor (SSR) from Catacel Corporation is a direct replacement for the loose ceramic catalyst media traditionally used in the stationary steam-reforming process by industrial ..

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Carbon Sciences, Inc., the developer of a breakthrough technology to transform greenhouse gases into gasoline and other portable fuels, announced the filing of the first of a series of patent applicat..

Visionary Industrial Insulation recently announced that it has commenced sales as the master distributor what is claimed to be a revolutionary new insulation product (Fig. 2), high-temperature layered..

A diamond in the roughAlthough problem-free pump operation is the primary goal of all pump operators, achieving that goal is not a simple matter. The key components of a pump&#151;mechanical seals, im..

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Chemical process safety chatThank you for publishing the process safety-related article by Mr. Shah about layers of protection (p. 67, April 2010). I am a long-time reader and have seen very few, if a..

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