Refineries and petrochemical plants are comprised of a series of crucial processes to produce transportation fuels, products and chemicals demanded by the global market. These processes consist of capital-intensive units that must be maintained to provide reliable performance. Failure to adequately maintain these assets can have a detrimental effect to not only operations and profit, but also to worker safety.
Alkylation is a process used to produce highly branched isoparaffins from the reaction of lighter olefins and isobutane in the presence of sulfuric acid as a catalyst.
Over the past five years, the industrial evolution has been propelled by the same technologies that have dramatically changed our private lives.
For nearly a decade, capital investments in new petrochemical capacity have skyrocketed. This
The refining industry links the upstream production of crude oil with the end markets for fuel products, as well as for the petrochemical/chemical industry.
Refineries and chemical processing plants are complicated to model, control and optimize.
A common misconception in largescale process manufacturing is that minimizing downtime by increasing reliability is the key to increasing profitability.
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant, short-term disruption to the chemical industry, potentially leading to long-term impacts.
TechnipFMC has begun construction on Assiut National Oil Processing Co.’s new hydrocracking complex in Egypt.