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Environment & Safety

HP Innovations

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Blume, Adrienne

Modular generator creates precision gas mixturesKIN-TEK’s FlexStream Modular Gas Standards Generating System (Fig. 1) creates precise gas mixtures. The FlexStream system dilutes emissions from pe..

Achieve excellence and sustainability in your next turnaround

Project Assurance, Inc.: Singh, B.

To consistently achieve pacesetter results on plant shutdowns and turnarounds, it is imperative that companies have a systematic turnaround management process (TMP).

AFPM ’14: BNSF executive outlines rail safety priorities to handle volatile crude

HP Editorial Staff: HP Editorial Staff

Rose said BNSF and railroads across the country are concerned with three critical safety components: preventing derailments, mitigating their severity and mobilizing response measures effectively.

Foster Wheeler to buy Siemens environmental services business

Combined, these businesses design, engineer, retrofit and service a broad range of clean air technologies for power and industrial plants including: wet and dry flue gas desulfurization (FGD) and particulate control, acid gas control, mercury control, NOx reduction and combustion optimization systems.

Scott Safety unveils new universal gas detector

Meridian features hot-swappable plug-and-play sensors that make it easier to replace parts in hazardous locations, without the need to power down the instrument. The toxic and oxygen sensors are range-agnostic, allowing for a change in sensor range, without recalibration.

Linde buys Quebec safety equipment distributor

Linde Canada is adding Quebec-based Distribution Equiprotek to its portfolio. Linde specializes in industrial and specialty gases, as well as welding and cutting equipment and safety supplies.

Continuous corrosion monitoring enhances operational decisions

Permasense: Clarke, K.

Operators with permanently-installed continuous corrosion monitoring systems have better understanding of the corrosion and erosion rates occurring within their facility.

Address inlet pressure loss concerns with restricted lift relief devices

Smith & Burgess LLC: Smith, D.
Bechtel Corp.: Yoram, S.

For the past 30 years, standard-sized relief devices have been sized such that it is difficult to meet the installation criteria in American Petroleum Institute (API) standard (STD) 520. This problem ..

Convert heavy oil residue into synthetic fuel

Expander Energy: Kresnyak, S.  |  Price, S.  |  Wagner, J.

Over the past several decades, oil extractors and refiners have been maximizing the production of easy-to-drill, high-quality light sweet oil, mostly concentrated on the Arabian Peninsula. With “..

HP Editorial Comment: The silent assassin: Corrosion

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Romanow, Stephany

This month’s special report focuses on corrosion. Often, uncontrolled corrosion undermines the mechanical integrity of process equipment and infrastructure. It is often identified as the root cau..