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Environment & Safety

HP Automation Safety: Using the safety life cycle

exida LLC: Goble, W.

IEC 61511, Functional safety: Safety instrumented systems for the process industry sector, was recently released and is available on the IEC Website (www.iec.ch). This standard is well ..

Effectively guard a complex against a terrorist assault

Citadel, LLC: Ready, V.

Turn your facility assets from soft into hardened targets

Human factors analysis for process safety

Primatech, Inc.: Baybutt, P.
Pennsylvania State University Park: Haight, J.

Apply LOPA-HF to a fired furnace

HP Automation Safety: Beware of trip point negative creep

exida LLC: Marsza, E. M.

I recently rediscovered a curious phenomenon that affects SIS shutdown settings: trip points. This malady is particularly problematic for flow measurements in plants that have gone thro..

Noncapital intensive technologies reduce FCC sulfur content – Part 2

Davison Catalysts: Lesemann, M.  |  Schult, C.

Using novel membrane technology, refiners have new solutions to treat gasoline for sulfur and olefins content

Inherently safer design

Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center, Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University System: Gentile, M.  |  Mannan, M. S.  |  Rogers, W. J.  |  O'Connor, T. M.

Implementation challenges faced by new and existing facilities

Refinery hydrogen management – the big picture

UOP N.V.: Huycke, R.
UOP LLC: Zagoria, A.

Hydrogen network operating decisions affect the bottom line every day, but most refineries do not apply the tools that could dramatically increase profitability

Protect desulfurization catalyst with prefiltration systems

Pall Corp.: Cathcart, N.  |  Lindstrom, T. H.
Pall Canada: Levesque, F.

Suspended solids in refinery feeds foul critical desulfurization catalysts and heat exchange equipment and rob refiners of potential profits

The ultimate 'clean' fuel – Gas-to-liquid products

Davy Process Techonology: Ashley, M.  |  Gamlin, T.

New reforming technology enables converting stranded natural gas into low-sulfur syngas

Consider onsite gas supply to meet processing needs

Linde AG: Heisel, M.
Linde AG, Gas and Engineering: Scholz, G.  |  Schweer, D.

By outsourcing industrial gas sources, refiners can focus resources – capital and manpower – on upgrading crude oil into higher-value products