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HP New Developments

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Aspen Technology’s aspenONE Engineering and aspenONE Manufacturing and Supply Chain Version 8.8 software was developed for firms in the oil, gas, chemicals, engineering and construction, and other process industries.

Improve relief-device sizing under supercritical conditions

Smith & Burgess LLC: Smith, D.
Smith and Burgess LLC: Burgess, J.

Properly sized relief devices under supercritical conditions are vital to processing natural gas and gas condensates into olefins. These processes operate near the critical locus of the process gases ..

Safety and environmental updates for HPI storage tanks

   © leungchopan—Shutterstock.com Storage tanks are common in any hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI) facility or receiving/shipping terminal. Crude oil, refined produc..

HP Reliability: The true cost of poor quality

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

Knoxville, Tennessee-based System Improvements, Inc., has been in the forefront of teaching structured root-cause analysis throughout the world. System Improvements, Inc. has used its proprietary soft..

Blast at Brazilian refinery burns three workers

HP Editorial Staff: HP Editorial Staff

The fire and explosion at Petrobras' 323,000-bpd Landulpho Alves (RLAM) complex is the second major accident to occur at Brazil's second-largest refinery within a week.

Without reliability, there can be no safety

Oil Industry Safety Directorate: Dutta, H.

Reliability and safety are complimentary concepts. For instance, unless process reliability at a plant is extraordinary, safety cannot be assured. Achieving the highest level of safety at a processing..

HP Innovations

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Blume, Adrienne

Conductivity meter resolves SDA dosingA major Asian refinery approached Stanhope-Seta and D-2 Technologies to assess its options for automatic dosing of static dissipater additive (SDA) in the jet fue..

Monitor safety with improved risk performance indicators

ACM Facility Safety: Fisher, P.

Using Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) and real-time operational data, statistical estimates of the frequencies of future hazardous events can be generated. Combined with a qualitative estimate of the severity of hazardous events and the tolerable frequency determined in the LOPA, an objective leading metric of hazardous events can be created.

Heater training improves safety and operations

John Zink Co. LLC: Baukal, C.  |  Luginbill, R.
HollyFrontier: Basquez, D.  |  Baker, M.

As a part of an initiative to conserve energy and other valuable resources, an independent petroleum refiner began a two-year training program in the summer of 2013 for more than 900 operators at six ..

Environmental regulations: How much do they really cost?

Kleinfelder: Allen, K.

Processors should instead grasp some understanding of the costs and benefits by asking themselves: “How much will these changes really cost, and what’s in it for me?”