Refining
HPIn Europe: Duh! Business as usual will not be good for the HPI
Where the common ground between my best friends in engineering and I becomes a parkland with fireworks is when we share the "aha moments." I suspect it's from that curious, excited child in my friends..
Advanced hydrocracking technology upgrades extra heavy oil
New hydrogen-addition process yields middle distillates while zeroing fuel oil and coke production from vacuum residue
HPIn Europe: Forecast for Europe: Bankers get richer as old refiners fade away
It may have been the banking industry that paved the way into the present global downturn. But it is European refineries that will be shutting up shop, and there's no government rescue waiting in the ..
Hydrocracking solutions squeeze more ULSD from heavy ends
New processing alternatives enable upgrading vacuum residuals into higher-value products
HP Viewpoint: Forecast for process safety in the 21st century
The 20th century was a time of great technological change. Such changes that have forever altered how we live and work. The 1970s brought the creation of the US Environmental Protection Agency and the..
Ozone destruction major cause of warming! - Part 2
Robert A. Ashworth, Guest Columnist Comments? Write: editorial@HydrocarbonProcessing.com Warming of the stratosphere is caused by the reaction of ultra..
Consider advanced multi-promoted catalysts to optimize reformers
Improved catalyst systems strike a new balance to increase yields with greater selectivity for end-products
HPIn Europe: NOC megaprojects, not climate policies, will be closing your local refiner
Some 800,000 bpd (800 Mbpd) of refinery expansion capacity, which faded and disappeared from the radar of the OECD's energy forecasts last year, is now back. There was quite a fanfare over capacity re..
Ozone destruction major cause of warming!-Part 1
Robert A. Ashworth, Guest Columnist Comments? Write: editorial@HydrocarbonProcessing.com Some say human-made (anthropogenic) carbon dioxide (CO2) emiss..
Maximize liquid yield from extra heavy oil
Next-generation hydrocracking processes increase conversion of residues
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