Engineering & Design
Circular Economy: Innovative recycling, driving circularity while decarbonizing the petrochemical industry
Plastic pollution’s environmental challenges, as well as new government legislation, are having a significant impact on the plastics industry.
Reliability: Consider packaged twin-screw compressors
Compressors are widely used in the process industries to move fluids and gases within and outside the boundary of a process.
Plastics circularity: How to solve the challenge of retaining quality in recycled polymers
Businesses and governments around the world have united behind the vision of a circular economy for plastics.
Mechanical impact of rerating process equipment
Process equipment operating in a brownfield environment is often rerated pertaining to the changes in process parameters during debottlenecking.
Air-cooled heat exchanger operation under emergency cooling service
One of the challenges in the operation of air cooled heat exchangers (ACHEs) is to decide whether or not to operate under natural convection.
Combating naphtha reflux section corrosion mechanism and production losses in a CDU
Corrosion is one of the most important challenges that refineries face (FIG. 1).<sup>1</sup>
Industry Pioneers: Cracking technology, catalysts, polymers and zeolites
Donald Campbell, Eger Murphree, Homer Martin and Charles Tyson—often called the ‘Four Horsemen’—are credited with the landmark invention of fluid catalytic cracking (FCC).
HP Flashback: Excerpts from the 1950s: Capacity expands after WW2 and technologies and maintenance mature
The following is a mixture of technical articles, columns and headlines published in the 1950s by <i>Petroleum Refiner,</i> the forerunner to <i>Hydrocarbon Processing</i>.
History of the HPI: The 1950s: Capacity expansion, HDPE/PP, polycarbonate, computers and rocket science
The 1950s marked an evolution in the use of oil by nations around the world.
Accelerating and expanding process control benefits
Advanced industrial data analytics has a prominent role to play in process control and automation.
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