Maintenance & Reliability
Consider a new monitoring system to prevent corrosion
This innovative, continuous supervising method collects real-time data on important asset health
Operating philosophy can reduce overhead corrosion
Boost refinery reliability by controlling potential amine recycle loops
Avoid stress corrosion cracking of stainless steel
This case history investigates equipment failure in a glycol unit
Case 67: Extruder blowback
Understanding what is happening can lead to a solution
Executive leadership—essential to ensure world-class turnarounds
Many factors are involved in achieving ‘safe, reliable and cost-efficient’ turnarounds
HP Reliability: Consider procedure cards, technical books and maintenance conferences for training
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
Service life and cost impact what seals to use on your heavy-duty pump
HP Reliability: Selecting steam turbines in a ‘lean’ environment
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
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.
- Methanol Reformer to supply Mitsubishi Gas Chemical with L18 methanol reformer technology 12/10
- Clariant’s CATOFIN™ catalyst innovation boosts performance in Ningxia Runfeng’s PDH operations 12/10
- Opinion: Trump sanctions on Lukoil, Rosneft could reshuffle global oil map 12/10
- HF Sinclair forecasts lower CAPEX in 2026 on reduced maintenance costs 12/10
- Aster to carry out further upgrades at Singapore Bukom refinery 12/10
- EIA: U.S. crude stocks fall, fuel inventories rise on robust refining 12/10
