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Leveraging digital technologies to create the smart renewable diesel facility

OSIsoft: Harclerode, C.

Many companies are modifying existing crude refineries or building grassroots renewable diesel facilities to produce drop-in, green renewable diesel from a variety of agriculturally derived triglyceride feedstocks.

Reducing acid consumption: Maximizing sulfuric acid alkylation unit profitability

DuPont Clean Technologies: Peterson, J. R.  |  Rana, D.  |  Ewing, R.

Alkylation is a process used to produce highly branched isoparaffins from the reaction of lighter olefins and isobutane in the presence of sulfuric acid as a catalyst.

Converting a petroleum diesel refinery for renewable diesel

Burns & McDonnell: Chan, E.

As refiners consider renewable, low-carbon alternatives, renewable diesel—refined from agricultural products using petroleum refinery processes—is gaining traction.

Global Project Data

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

After a tumultuous year, many active capital projects have been deferred, delayed or even abandoned.

Industry Perspectives

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

The hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI) is steadily advancing through the energy transition.

Editorial Comment: Petrochemicals: Changing technologies and configurations to satisfy future demand

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

For nearly a decade, capital investments in new petrochemical capacity have skyrocketed. This

Down with downtime: Repair complex petrochemical components with selective electroplating

SIFCO ASC: Arana, T.

The volatile impact of the coronavirus pandemic hit at the same time the petrochemical industry was entering a downcycle.

Double-suction centrifugal compressor in ethylene plant inlet piping design

TurboTech Consulting Corp.: Zardynezhad, S.

Centrifugal compressors are designed with different suction nozzle orientations and impeller layouts in casing.

Optimizing failure data analysis

exida LLC: Stewart, L.  |  Statham, S.

A critical objective of engineers who design an automatic protection system is to lower the false trip rate and to lower a key metric called average probability of failure on demand (PFDavg).

Best practices for pygas-based styrene extraction

Sulzer GTC Technology: Liu, Z.  |  Joshi, S.  |  Ma, H.  |  Zhang, R.

Pyrolysis gasoline (pygas) is a by-produced fraction of hydrocarbons generated from a steam cracker.

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