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Editorial Comment

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

Over the past several decades, the hydrocarbon processing industry has invested heavily in new processing units to produce low-sulfur and ultra-low-sulfur (ULS) transportation fuels.

Innovations

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Rhodes, Mike

DeZURIK, a leading valve manufacturer in the industrial and municipal markets, offers a wide variety of valve solutions for environmental wastewater systems, including grey water intake, pump isolation, pump surge control and membrane bioreactor isolation.

Alarm management: A pillar of process safety management

QHSE Institute: Moreno, C. G.

The following describes how an adequate implementation of alarm management is a fundamental part in process safety management (PSM).

TOTAL refineries improve overhead systems corrosion and salting with amine-neutralizing technology

SUEZ Water Technologies & Solutions: Pothuaud, A.  |  Cross, C.

Weak organic amines are commonly used in crude unit overhead systems to prevent acidic corrosion from chlorides and other acidic contaminants via a neutralization reaction.

Determining the indeterminate

Fluor Daniel India Pvt. Ltd.: Chaudhuri, D.

Standards such as API, ASME and NFPA are applied widely in the refining industry.

Design considerations when flaring ethylene oxide

Gas Processing Consultant: Suares, D. A. G.

The flaring of gases released from normal process vents and safety valve discharges following an overpressure scenario is widely practiced in refineries, petrochemical and chemical plants.

A solution to the IMO 2020 MARPOL Annex VI requirement

Rigby Refining LLC: Klussmann, B.

On January 1, 2020, a new requirement limiting the sulfur content of marine fuel to a maximum of 0.5 wt% went into effect.

Meeting the Tier 3 challenge with ultra-clean alkylate

Exelus, Inc.: Mukherjee, M.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) introduced Tier 3 gasoline sulfur standards in 2017, requiring all U.S. gasoline producers to adhere to an annual 10-ppm average sulfur limit.

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.

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