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Editorial Comment: Sustainability: The latest creation in advancing ideas

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

Over the past few months, Hydrocarbon Processing’s editorial staff has traveled thousands of miles to attend numerous conferences, events, users’ groups, groundbreakings, etc.

Coke drum and blowdown system overpressure protection design—Part 2

ExxonMobil Rotterdam refinery: Geronimo, G. DI
ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Co.: Ceary, P. J.  |  Markham, N.

The blowdown (BD) system in delayed coking units (DCUs) receives waste streams generated during the coke drum (CD) decoking process to recover valuable hydrocarbons and water.

Digital: Cloud-based dynamic simulation models amplify operator training and safety programs

AVEVA: Lukman, M.  |  McMullen, J

International oil and gas (O&G) and hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI) companies are under great pressure to be profitable.

Engineering Case Histories: Case 106: Delayed fireball type explosions

Consulting Engineer: Sofronas, A.

When a vessel containing a flammable liquid under pressure (such as those in an LNG road tanker truck) ruptures and ignites, a vapor fireball explosion can occur.

Reliability: Safe fluid machines are our responsibility

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

Early in our training as engineers, we developed the ability to collect and evaluate data.

Editorial Comment: Where some see roadblocks, we see opportunities

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

In the January issue of Hydrocarbon Processing, the editorial comment focused on the roadmap to advancing ideas.

A cost-effective approach to monitoring dangerous hydrogen sulfide gas

Emerson Automation Solutions: Hernandez, J.

Hydrogen sulfide gas (H2S) is one of the most common hazards in the oil and gas industry.

Coke drum and blowdown system overpressure protection design - Part 1

The blowdown (BD) system in delayed coking units (DCUs) receives waste streams generated during the coke drum (CD) decoking process to recover valuable hydrocarbons and water. In recent DCU designs, the CD pressure relief valves (PRVs) also discharge to this system and then to the flare system via the BD PRVs.

Digital: Digitalization—Why now?

KBC, a Yokogawa Company: Micklem, D.

The process industries are under threat.

Reliability: Where asset reliability must begin in refineries and petrochemical plants

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

Numerous articles on asset reliability have been published in the decades since 1970.