Environment & Safety
Prevent hydrocarbon leaks in cooling water
Microbes cause problems in plant condensers and coolers
Improve waterside operation for waste-heat boiler
Better water chemistry practices can increase reliability of sulfur recovery units
Troubleshoot reverse osmosis units online
Identifying the root causes for poor performance saves operating costs and improves water quality
Consider membrane technologies to treat oily wastewater
Advanced methods enable recycling process water for plant applications
What can you do to enhance the safety of operations?
The US Chemical Safety Board's fatal blast report makes it imperative to take a serious look at your plant's loss prevention practices, particularly the instrumentation and sensors that provide critical information for prompt action
HP Automation Safety: Still not using a safety PLC?
The concept of using a special-purpose programmable logic control (PLC)/controller designed for fail-safe operation started over 25 years ago. The early programmable machines were designed applying th..
Choosing the wrong flame arrestor can prevent capacity enhancement
This Iranian gas facility debottlenecked its process and increased production
Clean fuel trends in Asia: Contribution of MTBE
Growing vehicle population requires innovative solutions to curb air emissions
Improve prediction of cetane index and smoke point
New correlations more accurately estimate properties for conventional and oil sands-derived middle distillates
New power approach reduces air emissions
Integrating binary power plants conserves heat energy and generates electricity for bitumen extraction site
- Malaysia plans to produce sustainable jet fuel in 2027 11/27
- ADNOC launches $80-B low-carbon energy and chemicals investment company 11/27
- Chevron sees California's fuel inventory law raising prices for customers 11/27
- Clariant’s MegaMax™ catalysts to power China’s first biomass-to-green methanol project 11/27
- easyJet, Renavia and WFS sign MoU for long-term supply of SAF 11/27
- Dow, Ambipar partner to promote plastics recycling in South America 11/26
