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HP Reliability: Consider suspended-access scaffolding

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

You may always have left scaffolding and access-to-work questions to an outside contractor to make the final decisions. But plant safety and timely work completion are everybody’s business. As a ..

HP Innovations

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Blume, Adrienne

Boron technology mitigates metals contaminationAlthough tight oil has changed the landscape of North American refining, resid-type feeds continue to play a key role in the global FCC market, with arou..

HP News

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Thinnes, Billy

IChemE awards highest professional honor to Shell The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) awarded its highest honor to Shell in recognition of the company’s worldwide skills and profession..

Innovative modeling of heavy crudes provides competitive advantages

Aspen Technology Inc.: Beck, R.  |  Ajikutira, D.  |  Ye, V.
Aspen Technology: Rumyantseva, I.

The increase in heavy crude production, together with the diversity of heavy crude characteristics and sources, leads to technical challenges in accurately predicting production and refining process performance.

Use information management tools to support best practices and increase reliability

AVEVA Solutions Ltd.: Standish, R.

The recently published ISO 55000 series of standards aims to promote best practices in asset management. Other goals of this standard include: achieving tangible benefits through the effective managem..

HP Automation Strategies: Energy management lessons from Europe

ARC Advisory Group: Güldner, F.

ARC Advisory Group research indicates that, by applying appropriate energy management measures, energy-intensive companies can reduce their energy consumption by 30% to 40% over a 15-year timespan. Th..

HP Project Management: What skills will project managers need in the next decade?—Part 2

Del E. Webb School of Construction, Arizona State University: Badger, W.

The role of the PM is evolving as new HPI projects are constructed across the world and enlist engineers and service companies scattered in different countries and regions. As discussed in Part 1, new..

HP Innovations

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Blume, Adrienne

Small-capacity SRUs available for petchemsPrincipal Technology offers sulfur recovery units (SRUs) (Fig. 1) specifically designed for small-capacity petrochemical plants. The SRUs are available in nam..

HP People

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Thinnes, Billy

Energy Recovery has promoted Joel Gay to CFO, replacing Alex Buehler. Mr. Gay joined Energy Recovery in January 2012 and has held several positions at the company, serving as vice president of finance..

Consider high-fidelity online motor fuel characterization

Yokogawa Corp. of America: Trygstad, M.

Motor fuels are complex products. Various diesel fuel and gasoline grades are prepared from a large range of individual blending components whose individual properties may be extremely variable over t..