Engineering & Design
Consider a new monitoring system to prevent corrosion
This innovative, continuous supervising method collects real-time data on important asset health
Choose a facility configuration based on financial metrics
Linear program (LP) modeling can provide an unbiased, cost-based preview of a refinery or petrochemical plant design
Case 67: Extruder blowback
Understanding what is happening can lead to a solution
HP Reliability: Consider procedure cards, technical books and maintenance conferences for training
Because our memories are imperfect and we don’t want to risk making mistakes, we learned to jot down brief reminder notes on paper. Some people call it a cheat sheet, or a checklist. An airline p..
HP Water Management: Water is the next oil
In the future, increased demands for high-quality fresh water supplies will translate into voluntary and, ultimately, regulatory mandates. These constraints will require facilities to limit or to redu..
HP Construction: North America
UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, will provide technology to produce propylene at Dow Chemical Co.’s production site in Texas. Dow Texas Operations will use Honeywell UOP C3 Oleflex technology in a n..
HP Construction: South America
Exterran Holdings, Inc., has a contract from Petrobras for the design, fabrication and sale of a major natural gas processing and treating facility in Itau, Bolivia. The facility is a dew-point gas pr..
HP Construction: Europe
BASF will build a single-train 300,000 metric-tpy production plant for toluene diisocyanate (TDI) at its site in Ludwigshafen, Germany. It will also expand additional plants for TDI precursors by cons..
HP Construction: Middle East
Qatargas has signed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with Samsung Engineering Ltd. for a diesel hydrotreater (DHT) unit that will treat 54,000 bpsd of diesel, from high-sulf..
HP Construction: Asia Pacific
Total is consolidating its positions in petrochemicals in Asia with a new expansion and upgrading project for the Daesan complex in South Korea, which the group owns with Samsung as part of the Samsun..
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