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Maintenance & Reliability

Executive Viewpoint: Trends in the global process furnace market

Axens: Grimaud, T.  |  Mustafa, N.

Whether it is heating process fluids to achieve enough temperature in crude atmospheric and vacuum distillation units, or reaction temperatures inside furnace tubes to produce ethylene, vinyl chloride monomer, synthetic gas and continuous catalytic reformer reactors, or simple process heating (thermal fluid), process furnaces play a critical role in refineries and petrochemical complexes.

Engineering Case Histories: Case 107: Weld failures in vibrating equipment

Consulting Engineer: Sofronas, A.

Vibrating equipment can be machines, such as vibrating screens, conveyor pans or a combination of both, that are designed to transport, sort or dry materials.

Reliability: Know the pitfalls of excessively high oil viscosity

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

Since its inception in June 1990, more than half of the 347 “HP Reliability” columns published in Hydrocarbon Processing have incorporated consulting experiences and communications that span the globe.

Editorial Comment: The true essence of optimization

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

What is the first thing that comes to mind when we hear the word optimization?

Industry Perspectives: What topics do you want to hear about?

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

Throughout Hydrocarbon Processing’s 97 yr of publishing technical material for the refining and petrochemical industries, the journal has focused on numerous topics to optimize downstream processing facility operations.

Equipment life assessment—An exercise to help ensure plant equipment integrity and reliability

Contributing Editor: Anwer, A.

Numerous plants around the world operate with hazardous oil and gas, petrochemicals and refining fluids that have surpassed their design life.

Raman spectroscopy for the optimization of hydrogen usage in refineries

SpectraSensors: Sutherland, S.

Approximately 700 refineries are in operation worldwide, producing a range of petroleum products including gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, liquified petroleum gas (LPG) and fuel oils.

Mitigating corrosion challenges from opportunity crudes

Emerson Automation Solutions: Wold, K.

High-quality crudes are not always readily available, or at a price that is acceptable to the producer’s budget.

The benefits of automatic batch distillation

Chevron: Ingham, H.  |  Sverdlov, G.

Process control methods have been applied to batch distillation of crude oil and intermediate oils performed in the Chevron DPST labs in Richmond, California.

Welded plate heat exchangers cut refinery process costs—Part 2

GESMEX Exchangers GmbH: Broad, R.
CDE Projects Ltd.: Kauders, P.

Plate-and-frame (P&F) heat exchangers were first manufactured 100 yr ago for use in the dairy industry.