Maintenance & Reliability
Business Trends
Across the hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI), executives are buzzing about operational excellence.
Maintenance: Improving plant performance by changing a maintenance culture
Over the last 2 yr, the plant maintenance department (PMD) at Eastman Chemical Co.’s Longview, Texas site produced these significant improvements to plant performance.
Engineering Case Histories: Case 103—Addressing heat exchanger tube leaks
Heat exchangers have multiple tubes with fluid passing through and over them that either heats or cools another fluid.
Amine pumps upgraded for improved operations and reliability
A gas processing plant in Malaysia eliminated a source of expensive failures in its acid gas removal unit (AGRU).
Importance of welding procedure software
Welding is an ocean of substance, a technique without which the joining of metals is impossible.
Fouling mitigation strategies for process gas compressors in olefins plants
Indorama Eleme Petrochemicals’ olefins plant in Port Harcourt, Nigeria is designed to produce 300,000 tpy of polymer-grade ethylene and 126,000 tpy of polymer-grade propylene through the pyrolysis or thermal cracking of natural gas liquids (NGL).
Reliability: How application engineers add value
Making the vendor-manufacturer your technology provider has been our consistent advice to the user industries; we have recommended this highly effective approach for many decades.
Editorial Comment: The reemergence of a collaborative platform
Readers have witnessed that throughout the life of the publication, <i>Hydrocarbon Processing</i> has always published information on new technologies to increase efficiency, safety and profitability in downstream processing operations, while introducing techniques to decrease environmental footprint and emissions and produce high-quality, clean fuels and petroleum products for consumers around the world.
Process safety as a profit center?
In today’s economic environment, new capital spending is harder to find than loose change buried under the couch cushions.
Hydrocarbon Processing Awards
<i>Hydrocarbon Processing,</i> the downstream processing sector’s leading technical publication, has announced the winners for its second annual awards.
- SIBUR develops new polyethylene grade for FMCG packaging 8/13
- L&T Energy GreenTech partners with Japan’s ITOCHU for 300,000-tpy green ammonia project 8/13
- VINCI wins major contract for innovative biofuels plant in Spain 8/13
- Orlen Unipetrol to shut ethylene unit at Litvinov plant for several days 8/13
- Dangote Refinery cuts fuel price before planned sales to local Nigerian market 8/13
- Chevron Phillips Chemical completes low-viscosity PAO expansion in Belgium 8/12
