Engineering & Design
New methodology enhances planning for refined products
A unique analytical tool collectively applies value information from various end-product and intermediate streams and identifies the best profit-making operation
HP Impact: Protect processing catalysts from feedstock contaminants
Effective feedstock filtration can extend service life for catalytic systems and optimize reactor performance
Glycol dehydration
Proper adjustments will reduce initial investments and operating costs
Are you handling sulfur safely?
Through open and frank discussions, refiners and industry consultants endeavor to resolve problems and questions commonly encountered with sulfur recovery units
Consider physical solvents to treat natural gas
New solvent systems cost-effectively remove high-CO 2 concentrations from natural gas to meet pipeline specs
Visualize facility storage tank capacity
Maximize your ability to safely store products
Consider a utility-savvy refinery to reduce capital investment
New refining concept encapsulates future capacity expansion for developing markets with least cost
Successful multivariable control without plant tests
First-principles dynamic simulation models can be used instead
Optimize sour water treatment
This checklist details several common problems associated with sour-water strippers and the workarounds to correct them
Crude oil blend scheduling optimization: an application with multimillion dollar benefits – Part 1
The ability to schedule the crude oil blendshop more effectively provides substantial downstream benefits
- INEOS receives €300-million grant to rejuvenate and decarbonize its Lavera plant 2/19
- AGC Vinythai commissions expanded chlor-alkali plant and e-BiTAC electrolyzers from thyssenkrupp nucera 2/19
- BASF launches AdBlue GE (green electricity) to decarbonize mobility value chain 2/19
- Carbon Neutral Fuels select Johnson Matthey, bp and Honeywell UOP technologies for UK SAF plant 2/19
- Orlen plans maintenance at Polish, Czech refineries in 2026 2/19
- India's Bharat Petroleum, HPCL Mittal buy Venezuelan oil 2/19
