Panchal, D.
Dharmesh Panchal is a Service Fellow and a member of Honeywell UOP’s FCC/Alkylation/Treating Technology Services group based in the UK. Currently, Panchal has responsibility for providing troubleshooting, unit optimization, projects, engineering and start-up support for new and revamped FCCUs, and turnaround support for the EMEA/FSU/Asia regions. He has 30 yr of experience in the industry focused on commissioning, startup, operations, optimization, revamp and troubleshooting of FCCUs, including 5 yr as a Senior Staff Consultant working on a range of design projects, simulations, unit optimization and troubleshooting. Panchal is a Chartered Chemical Engineer and holds several patents with Honeywell UOP.
Monitoring cyclone reliability in fluid catalytic crackers
The authors’ company has developed a novel approach with a digital algorithm to effectively estimate the current cyclone erosion and predict future erosion based on operating conditions. With this approach, refiners get an automatic way to better predict abrasion lining erosion for both reactors and regenerator cyclones daily from digital analytics, thus helping refiners quantify their monitoring.
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