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Heat Transfer

Conserve energy for fired heaters

SK Innovation Co. Ltd.: Yoon, H.

Advanced ceramic fiber veneer insulation reduces heat losses and is more resilient

Fine-tune relief calculations for supercritical fluids

Jacobs Engineering: Nezami, P. L.
Jacobs Consultancy: Price, J.

Improvement in process simulation can assist in relief load and valve sizing.

Alfa Laval wins order to supply heat exchangers for Saudi gas processing plant

Alfa Laval has won an order from a Korean engineering company to supply heat exchangers for a natural gas project in Saudi Arabia. The Alfa Laval heat exchangers will be used in a new major gas processing facility in Saudi Arabia where they will be recovering energy in the gas cleaning process.

Air Products to supply LNG heat exchangers for Ichthys project in Australia

Air Products has signed an agreement with JKC and INPEX, under which it will supply liquefaction technology and main cryogenic heat exchangers for two process trains to produce 8.4 million tpy of LNG. The LNG units will process natural gas from reserves located in the Browse Basin offshore Western Australia.

Alfa Laval to supply heat exchangers for Morocco fertilizer producer

Heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling company Alfa Laval has won an order to supply Alfa Laval plate heat exchangers to a fertilizer producer in Morocco. Delivery is scheduled to start during 2012 and be finalized in 2014. The plate heat exchangers will be used in a cooling process.

Optimize olefin operations

Pequiven S. A.: Romero, K.

This operating company used process models to find solutions to poor separation performance

Operational optimization for mixed-refrigerant systems

Lamar University: Li, K.  |  Xu, Q.
Dan F. Smith Department of Chemical Engineering, Lamar University: Zhang, J.

Use rigorous simulation to improve process efficiency

Use better designed turboexpanders to handle flashing fluids

Energent: Kaupert, K.

New models eliminate vibration problems and improve process reliability

Alfa Laval to supply plate heat exchangers for Brazil oil company

Sweden-based Alfa Laval has won a plate heat exchanger order from a major oil company in Brazil. The Alfa Laval plate heat exchangers will be installed at offshore production platforms where they will be used for heat recovery in the main separation process, the company said.

Russia refiner taps Foster Wheeler for fired heater

Foster Wheeler has been awarded a contract by CJSC Antipinsky Refinery for the engineering and material supply of a new fired heater and air preheating system for the Antipinsky refinery in Tyumen. Foster Wheeler’s scope of work is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2012.