Environment & Safety
Editorial Comment: Embracing uncertainty for a better tomorrow
The downstream processing industry is changing.
Clearing the way for China’s petrochemical growth: Efficient catalytic VOC emissions control
The growth of China’s chemical industry over the past 30 yr has been truly astonishing.
Support robust process safety management platforms with less reliance on incident investigations
Accepting that incidents are inevitable can be considered a form of institutionalized normalization of deviance.
An evolving approach to digitalization
Much has been written in recent years about the need for refineries to embrace the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).
Our waste is our resource—An initiative to turn all plastics bio-based
The vision is fully fossil-free plastics production.
Adapting and prospering in the energy transition
The energy transition is gathering momentum as pressure from society leads policy makers and investors to demand faster and deeper cuts to carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from all industrial sectors.
The greening of the downstream industry: A carbon investment case for clean refining
<i>Hydrocarbon Processing</i> was pleased to speak recently with Mark Fonda, Executive Vice President, Engineering and Chief Technical Officer for Meridian Energy Group, which is building two grassroots refineries in the US.
Electric vehicles are coming, but their impact will be evolutionary, not revolutionary
Alternatively fueled vehicles (AFVs) are getting plenty of press these days, but their market penetration is still a long way from critical mass.
To reduce security vulnerabilities in downstream facilities, try unikernels
Unfortunately, but unsurprisingly, oil and gas facilities have joined financial, government, hospitality and other companies as tempting targets for cybercriminals.
Executive Viewpoint: Trends in the global process furnace market
Whether it is heating process fluids to achieve enough temperature in crude atmospheric and vacuum distillation units, or reaction temperatures inside furnace tubes to produce ethylene, vinyl chloride monomer, synthetic gas and continuous catalytic reformer reactors, or simple process heating (thermal fluid), process furnaces play a critical role in refineries and petrochemical complexes.
- Corteva and bp launch biofuel feedstock joint venture Etlas™ 1/7
- BASF starts up 1-MMtpy ethane cracker at Verbund site in Zhanjiang, China 1/7
- Larsen & Toubro delivers first feed to HPCL's 3.55-MMtpy LC-Max residue upgrading facility 1/7
- Borouge advances industry-first AI autonomous operations at Ruwais facility 1/7
- Valero to keep importing gasoline after Benicia (U.S.) refinery closure 1/7
- Chinese refiners expected to replace Venezuelan oil with Iranian crude 1/7
