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Engineering & Design

Spot energy-savings opportunities in your plant

Petro-Canada: Patel, S.

Choosing the appropriate equipment design and other system components can improve system reliability and save money

Eliminating the risks to starting up your plant right the first time

Fluor: Leitch, J.

The ability to bring a new facility online sooner and minimize trips or faults that reduce production volume yields significant financial benefits

Digitize your plant using laser scanning for easier access to information

Quantapoint: McGill, J.

Integration of facility documentation and laser models enables a single entry point for data

Engineering and economics of CO2 removal and sequestration

Consultant: Flintoff, W.
Global Machinery Consultants Pty Ltd.: Saxena, M. N.

Using this technology will help facilities meet environmental regulations

Enhance mercury removal from naphtha

Taiyo Techno Service Co., Ltd: Akihisa, N.  |  Ikushima, K.
Consultant: Mokhatab, S.

Improved activated carbon provides adsorption of various mercury species

Consider using flowsheet simulators for reactor system design

Jacobs: Zhang, A.

Rigorous simulation methods assist engineers to develop accurate material/ energy balances for hydrotreating operations

Consider the 'inside-out' approach to optimize distillation operations

Koch-Glitsch Canada LP, University of Calgary: Remesat, D.

Economic value can be obtained by involving heat exchanger and tower internal experts in the initial design development

Comparing historical and laser scan surveys to identify discrepancies

Quantapoint: Hoffman, E.  |  Persi, F. M.

Here's a straightforward technique that enables plant personnel to compare the two data-gathering methods and address variances

Estimate equilibrium flash vaporization curves accurately

Jordan Petroleum Refinery Co.: Dokhkan, A.

A computer program simplifies methods of true boiling point curves in design applications

Use micrographs to diagnose FCC operations

Wuhan Petrochemical Works: Liu, C.  |  Liu, J.  |  Shu, S.
Honeywell Co. Ltd.: Zhou, H. J.

New analytical methods explore processing problems at the catalyst particle level