Process Optimization
HP Water Management: Understanding the utility side of reboilers
Reboilers use steam to provide heat transfer in a variety of distillation, purification and separation processes in refinery units such as gas plants, alkylation, sulfur recovery, aroma..
HP Impact: Protect processing catalysts from feedstock contaminants
Effective feedstock filtration can extend service life for catalytic systems and optimize reactor performance
Glycol dehydration
Proper adjustments will reduce initial investments and operating costs
Are you handling sulfur safely?
Through open and frank discussions, refiners and industry consultants endeavor to resolve problems and questions commonly encountered with sulfur recovery units
Consider physical solvents to treat natural gas
New solvent systems cost-effectively remove high-CO 2 concentrations from natural gas to meet pipeline specs
Visualize facility storage tank capacity
Maximize your ability to safely store products
Consider a utility-savvy refinery to reduce capital investment
New refining concept encapsulates future capacity expansion for developing markets with least cost
Successful multivariable control without plant tests
First-principles dynamic simulation models can be used instead
Optimize sour water treatment
This checklist details several common problems associated with sour-water strippers and the workarounds to correct them
Crude oil blend scheduling optimization: an application with multimillion dollar benefits – Part 1
The ability to schedule the crude oil blendshop more effectively provides substantial downstream benefits
- Opinion: Opening Hormuz is the easy part—restoring oil flows isn’t 4/20
- ABB enhances AI capabilities of flagship industrial device digital solutions 4/17
- XCF, DevvStream, Southern Energy Renewables partner to bring transferable 45Z clean fuel credits to market 4/17
- HyOrc completes independent process and technology verification for waste-to-methanol platform 4/17
- Bottled lightning makes a cleaner fuel: Research shows how bursts of plasma convert methane into methanol without high heat and pressures 4/17
- Evonik launches high performance isodewaxing catalysts for fuels and lubricants production 4/16
