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Maintenance & Reliability

Operating philosophy can reduce overhead corrosion

GE Water & Process Technologies: Dion, M.  |  Payne, B.  |  Grotewold, D.

Boost refinery reliability by controlling potential amine recycle loops

Avoid stress corrosion cracking of stainless steel

Reliance Ports and Terminals Ltd.: Jain, A. D.

This case history investigates equipment failure in a glycol unit

Case 67: Extruder blowback

Consulting Engineer: Sofronas, A.

Understanding what is happening can lead to a solution

Executive leadership—essential to ensure world-class turnarounds

Project Assurance, Inc.: Singh, B.

Many factors are involved in achieving ‘safe, reliable and cost-efficient’ turnarounds

HP Reliability: Consider procedure cards, technical books and maintenance conferences for training

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

Because our memories are imperfect and we don’t want to risk making mistakes, we learned to jot down brief reminder notes on paper. Some people call it a cheat sheet, or a checklist. An airline p..

Understand multi-stage pumps and sealing options: Part 1

AESSEAL plc: Gooch, L.

Service life and cost impact what seals to use on your heavy-duty pump

HP Reliability: Selecting steam turbines in a ‘lean’ environment

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

We received a nice compliment recently from a reader in South America. He wrote: “I am a mechanical engineer working on power plant designs at a major corporation and admire your work as a writer..

HP Impact: European pipeline performance

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Thinnes, Billy

European oil industry group CONCAWE has collected 40 years of spillage data on European cross-country oil pipelines with particular regard to spillages volume, cleanup and recovery, environmental cons..

Praxair sells US advanced components unit to NGK

Praxair has sold its advanced components business to Fremont, Calif.-based FM Industries, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Japan’s NGK Insulators. The advanced components business designs, engineers, manufactures and supplies electrostatic chucks (ESCs) and critical chamber components for semiconductor processing equipment.

Maintenance continues at BP Texas City refinery alkylation unit - source

Routine maintenance at an alkylation unit is ongoing at BP’s oil refinery in Texas City, Texas, a person familiar with operations at the plant said on Monday. The refinery is able to process up to 406,570 bpd of crude oil.