Compressors
Hydrocarbon Processing Awards
<i>Hydrocarbon Processing,</i> the downstream processing sector’s leading technical publication, has announced the finalists for its third annual awards.
Case study for a high-performing refinery loss control program
Most refineries have some sort of mass balance and loss control program in place for accounting, planning and scheduling, as well as for financial and operational evaluation purposes.
Innovations
Alfa Laval has introduced wide-opening design plates in its Packinox heat exchangers.
Understand net gas compressor control logic from a process engineering standpoint
In a refinery or petrochemical plant, certain equipment can create “gray areas” between process engineers and instrument engineers.
Resolving vibration problems in a crude booster pump
The pumps referred to in this article are 2,600-HP vertical pumps utilized as booster pumps for the shipment of crude oil.
Confirm best practices for compressed air in refineries
Within a refinery, four main utilities are considered essential to operations: electricity, natural gas, water and compressed air.
Maintenance and turnaround planning critical to successful ejector vacuum system operation
Steam ejector vacuum systems are generally considered to be reliable and require little maintenance.
Fouling mitigation strategies for process gas compressors in olefins plants
Indorama Eleme Petrochemicals’ olefins plant in Port Harcourt, Nigeria is designed to produce 300,000 tpy of polymer-grade ethylene and 126,000 tpy of polymer-grade propylene through the pyrolysis or thermal cracking of natural gas liquids (NGL).
Selecting flare gas recovery system for a greenfield refinery
Overall energy management and operational conservation have become crucial factors for profitability in today’s refining segment.
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