January 2010

Cost-effective expansion created high reliability operations

Pursue these guidelines to understand solubility

New technologies can cost-effectively treat 'wet' and 'dry' natural gas while protecting cryogenic equipment

Following these protocols will enhance sulfur recovery efficiency

It's not always the motor causing the vibration

Here are several options in which carbon capture can provide cost-effective solutions

Novel tuning method enables a conventional PI controller to explicitly handle the three important operational constraints of a liquid level loop in an optimal manner as well as copes with a broad range of level control from tight to averaging control

  Advocating the abandonment of MPC Regarding Zak Friedman's three "HPIn Control" columns on APC designs for minimum maintenance in the June (p. 90), July (p. 13) and August (p. 13) 2009 issues o..

Use this method to allogate limited maintenance resources to the most critical equipment

Use this rigorous method to prevent over-sizing

A simple, explicit and high-accuracy equation is presented

We quite obviously believe that reading is the key to professional growth and that Mark Twain was right in stating that the man who refuses to read is no different from the illiterate person who canno..

Title IV, Permits and Licenses, of the Federal Water Protection Control Act, also known as the Clean Water Act (CWA) created the system for permitting wastewater discharges, known as the Nati..

According to the US Department of Energy, industry accounts for about a third of all energy used in the US. Despite the recent drop in energy prices, energy remains the second leading cost pressure (b..

Where the common ground between my best friends in engineering and I becomes a parkland with fireworks is when we share the "aha moments." I suspect it's from that curious, excited child in my friends..

Pressure-relief software awarded first US patent Farris Engineering Services, a business unit of Curtiss-Wright Flow Control Company, has announced that its iPRSM product, claimed to be a revolutionar..

Compressors offer lowest total cost of ownership Redesigned 200 HP compressors are said to combine reliability with innovative technology. They are offered with a choice of constant-speed drive models..

  BG Group has a joint venture agreement with Petroleo Brasileiro SA focused on developing floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) as an additional option to commercialize the associated natural ga..

  ABB has an order worth $26 million from Hellenic Petroleum SA to provide an integrated power and automation system for the upgrade of Hellenic Petroleum's Elefsina refinery, west of Athens, G..

  Samsung Engineering has a $2.73 billion contract from Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Co. for utilities and offsite work on the Ruwais refinery expansion project (RRE). Samsung's work is set for mechani..

  Shell Chemicals Ltd. recently had a successful startup of its new monoethylene glycol (MEG) unit at the Shell Eastern Petrochemicals complex in Jurong Island, Singapore. The capacity is 750,000..

Instrumentation calibration services ABB Instrumentation's new brochure explains its extensive calibration offerings and why they are important to ensure equipment performance. The br..

In a recent refining industry piece, Deutsche Bank analysts took a gander at the US refining industry and wondered if the worst has passed for refiners. In short, they think not. ConocoPhillips CEO Ji..

Carbon trading, carbon taxing and other forms of regulating greenhouse gases have been hot topics of conversation of late. Since it appears that these concepts will be dominating thought and affectin..

IEA speaks up in Copenhagen During the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, the International Energy Agency shared its ..

Billy Thinnes, News editor       Comments? Write: editorial@HydrocarbonProcessing.com In early December, Hydrocarbon Pro..