Procuring equipment, materials and services are very important to a project’s financial success.
Hydrocarbon Processing, the downstream processing sector’s leading technical publication for nearly 100 yr, has announced the finalists for its fifth annual HP Awards, which celebrate innovative technologies and people that have been instrumental in improving facility operations over the past year.
In downstream processing facilities, such as refineries and chemical plants, downtime is a significant source of lost revenue.
As a veteran of many capital projects once observed, “All projects execute materials management—those that do so without a plan and the appropriate resources just do it very poorly.”
As part of the global campaign to reduce CO2 emissions, carbon capture and reduction are receiving increased attention from a variety of process industries, especially power generation and oil and gas exploration and production.
Intrusive and non-intrusive diagnostic tools and techniques for fluidized bed reactors are discussed here, with a focus on chemical synthesis catalytic reactions.
Furnaces, or fired heaters, provide the source of heat required for major industrial processes.
Dınçer, A. R.,
Özsağiroğlu, E.,
Iseri, F.,
Dogan, G.,
Yavuz, G. D.,
Andaş, G. Ş.,
Aka, O.,
Mutlu, S., TÜPRAŞ İzmir Refinery
The project detailed here was carried out on a vacuum distillation unit (VDU) in the TÜPRAŞ İzmir refinery.
Catalytic reforming processes produce olefin contaminants in aromatics streams via paraffin dehydrogenation side reactions.