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Process Optimization

Foster Wheeler to supply CFB steam generators for 'green' power project in Korea

Global contractor Foster Wheeler said it was given a limited notice to proceed by Hyundai Engineering and Construction to design and supply four supercritical circulating fluidized-bed (CFB) steam generators for the Samcheok Green Power project of Korea Southern Power Co. (KOSPO).

India refiner touts Honeywell wireless technology in FCC expansion

Hindustan Petroleum (HPCL) has implemented wireless mobile stations from Honeywell Process Solutions as part of its $200mn fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) project at its Mumbai refinery, officials said on Thursday.

Update your reliability performance to meet process safety expectations

Flint Hills Resources, L.P.: Bloch, K.  |  Bertsch, J.
Western ROPE, LLC: Dunmire, D.

Better risk assessment can identify root causes for potential site catastrophes before they occur

Optimize design for distillation feed

GTC Technology US, LLC: Lee, S. H.  |  Binkley, M. J.

Use these steps for enhanced performance

Fine-tune ethylene unit startups

Lamar University: Yang, X.  |  Li, K.  |  Xu, Q.

Advanced modeling methods provide useful information on operating main compressor system and feeds

HP Viewpoint: Why technology choice does matter

These days, the idea of optimizing comes up everywhere. We personally optimize our time, our retirement portfolio, our route to work, our diets, our energy use at home, and a host of other things. In ..

HP Construction: North America

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

KBR has been awarded a $65 million contract by Chevron Products Co. to execute a base-oil expansion project at Chevron’s refinery in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The construction project includes bui..

HP Construction: South America

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Technip, in consortium with Tomé Engenharia, was awarded a lump-sum turnkey EPC contract by Petrobras for five new units at the Presidente Bernardes Refinery in Cubatão, state of São Pa..

HP Construction: Europe

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Evonik Industries has started up a new facility to produce high-purity isobutene at its site in Antwerp, Belgium. The new plant, which involved investment of tens of millions of euros, can produce up ..

HP Construction: Middle East

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

GS Engineering & Construction Corp. has signed a $556 million deal to build a gas storage facility in Kuwait. Under the deal with the state-run Kuwait National Petroleum Co., GS Engineering will compl..