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Maintenance & Reliability

Reliability: Valuable trends combine innovation and time management

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

These days, regrettably, it is not unusual to encounter shallow thinkers.

Editorial Comment: Advancing maintenance ultimately leads to increased reliability

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

This year, <i>Hydrocarbon Processing</i> is celebrating its 100th anniversary. Throughout this year, the editors are publishing excerpts from past issues.

Business Trends: The big data tools and related professional competencies required in the chemical industry

Saudi Aramco: Khan, A.  |  Manzoor, M.

Big data is making tremendous changes in various sectors of the economy, and chemical industries can now leverage these new advancements.

Reliability: Use available database to assist in compressor design audits and selection

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

Over the last 40 yr, centrifugal compressor manufacturers have compiled a vast array of impellers and associated stationary components, allowing for higher efficiency staging.

Rotating equipment oil systems optimization guideline

Saudi Aramco: Almousa, M.  |  Al-Hamoud, A.  |  Al-Gofili, A.

The industry is moving away from oil shaft seals and hydraulic speed control for turbines to advanced alternatives.

Cleaning mud oil incineration offgases

Elessent Clean Technologies: Herssens, Y.  |  Safariyeganeh, S.

The sustainable management of petroleum exploration and refining requires appropriate treatment and disposal of the oily waste generated.

HP Flashback: Operations expand and technologies advance during global conflict: Excerpts from the 1940s

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

This articles details several case studies on the use of x-ray technology for inspection purposes. This includes for the inspection of casings, forgings and welded structures, among others.

Industry Pioneers: Polymer science, catalytic cracking, petrochemicals and EPC

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Sharma, Sumedha

Waldo Semon was an American chemist whose detour with assigned laboratory research at B. F. Goodrich led to the development of vinyl—the second best-selling plastic in the world.

How hydroprocessing feed filtration system design impacts process reliability and efficiency

Filtration Technology Corporation: Worrell, J.  |  Clements, M.  |  Echeto, S.

Oil refining is an exceptionally complex industry, with much of the inherent complexity stemming from wide regional variances in crude quality and composition, plant capabilities and the types of products produced.

Enhanced reboiler for C3 splitter heat pump improves energy efficiency and reduces CO2 footprint

Borealis: Rönkä, M.
Technip Energies: Ramdin, Z.  |  Provost, J.
Wieland Thermal Solutions: Lang, T.  |  Knöpfler, A

Energy efficiency, carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) footprint reduction and the minimization of material requirements are becoming key drivers of our daily decisions in all industry sectors.