Engineering & Design
Employing chemical engineers to make more money in refineries
Help these technical professionals in your plant establish the basics of a continuous improvement process
Increase gasoline production—a case study
Adjusting naphtha product cuts from the crude unit increased gasoline production without a major revamp
Rethink the handling of acid gases
Consider these guidelines to improve management of hydrogen sulfide in your refinery
Is nitrogen really inert as a blanketing medium?
New investigation finds that this gas is soluble in hydrocracker feed
Use of 3D scanning safely saves time, money for a Louisiana plant retrofitting
The technology facilitates design by enabling interference checking, accurate parts prefabrication and visualization of results
Quantifying the benefits of virtual plant modeling
As with any new and significant development, plant managers may eventually wonder how they were able to effectively perform their work before this technology existed
Distillation column relief loads—Part 2
The conventional method is expanded and a series of guidelines are developed
Improve crude oil fractionation by distributed distillation
Heat-integrated distributed distillation in crude oil fractionation can reduce energy consumption and emissions
Employing chemical engineers to make money in refineries
Here are suggestions on how plant owner/operators can get more value out of these technical professionals
In pursuit of flawless project execution
Using a main automation and electrical contractor approach can provide predictable costs, consistent results, standardized and scalable designs, and lower risk of unexpected scope growth
- XRG to expand its global chemicals reach with takeover of Covestro 11/21
- thyssenkrupp Uhde selected by Dangote Fertilizer Ltd. to license four urea granulation units in Nigeria 11/21
- Indian and Chinese refineries are moving to comply with U.S. sanctions on Russia 11/21
- China's first coal-to-chemicals project with green hydrogen starts commercial operations 11/20
- Norsk e-Fuel and Braskem partner to turn captured carbon into long-lasting products 11/20
- Nigeria's Dangote refinery delays CDU maintenance to end of January 2026 11/20
