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Technip forms technology partnership with French atomic energy group

France-based engineering major Technip has signed a strategic partnership agreement for innovation and technology development with the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA). The agreement is valid for an initial period of three years.

Spent caustic management: Remediation review

Understanding of waste components needed for proper spent caustic disposal

Improve material balance in high-purity distillation control

Summa Control Solutions Inc.: Nino, S.

Using dual-composition conserved energy efficiency, reduced reprocessing and allowed higher throughput

Investigation: Failure of a steam generator

SABIC R&T: Babakr, A.  |  Bairamov, A.

In case history, engineers search for root cause of water-side tube failures for a 23-year-old boiler

HP Reliability: One pump fire per 1,000 pump repairs

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

While performing reliability audits decades ago, pump-failure statistics were made available or could be recovered with relative ease. But even then, the sources were usually kept confidential because..

HP Water Management: Don’t let water be the reason for a turnaround

MarTech Systems, Inc.: Huchler, L. A.

Several years ago, while arriving onsite during another unit turnaround, I joked to a process engineer at the refinery “I get it. . . every time I ‘turn around,’ you have a turnaround.&..

HP Integration Strategies: Aging HPI workforce drives need for operator training systems

ARC Advisory Group: Abel, J.

As a leading research and consulting organization focused on the process industries, manufacturing, infrastructure and other industrial sectors, ARC Advisory Group has been closely following the emerg..

HP Construction: North America

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Eastman Chemical Co. has announced a second expansion of its Benzoflex plasticizer line at the Kohtla-Järve, Estonia, site. The expansion will increase Benzoflex capacity by an additional 11,000 ..

HP Construction: South America

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Technip, within the framework of a cooperation partnership with Haldor Topsøe, was awarded a contract to provide basic- and front-end engineering services on a Petrobras grassroots fertilizer com..

HP Construction: Europe

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Navum Energy Ltd. has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Turkmenistan state-owned gas concern, Turkmengas, which will lead to the construction of a series of gas-to-liquids (GTL) and ..