Businesses and governments around the world have united behind the vision of a circular economy for plastics.
Process equipment operating in a brownfield environment is often rerated pertaining to the changes in process parameters during debottlenecking.
One of the challenges in the operation of air cooled heat exchangers (ACHEs) is to decide whether or not to operate under natural convection.
To operate reliably and profitably, oil refineries, petrochemical plants and gas processing facilities must avoid equipment failures.
Oil and gas companies are finding creative ways to look for solutions to new problems in the face of climate change and growing environmental awareness.
Donald Campbell, Eger Murphree, Homer Martin and Charles Tyson—often called the ‘Four Horsemen’—are credited with the landmark invention of fluid catalytic cracking (FCC).
The following is a mixture of technical articles, columns and headlines published in the 1950s by Petroleum Refiner, the forerunner to Hydrocarbon Processing.
Advanced industrial data analytics has a prominent role to play in process control and automation.
As refineries and petrochemical complexes worldwide are moving toward more automated operations, plant operators are increasingly becoming dependent on process alarms for safe, smooth and continuous operation.