Piping
Improving pH control mitigates corrosion in crude units
Equipment and pipe failures can be avoided through better desalting practices and inhibitor injections
HP Water Management: Passivation in cooling water circuits
Passivation—the formation of a corrosion-resistant oxide on a clean metal surface—is the key to optimizing system reliability on the waterside of heat exchangers. Most plant personnel are aw..
What are the ‘magnificent seven’ elements to successfully pick a contractor?
Valuable pointers help industrial plant managers minimize downtime, maintain quality and safety to improve operations
HP Reliability: Alignment choices have consequences
Optimists tell us about steady industry trends toward reliability-imparting procedures and work processes, while realists continually make us aware of pressures to reduce expenditures. As outside obse..
Avoid condensation-induced transient pressure waves
Case studies give an indication as to probable causes for water hammer
Case 60: Socket-weld failures
A risk analysis can determine which critical welds to repair
Safe detection of small to large gas releases
Look at these advantages in using ultrasonic leak detectors
Genesis Energy grabs a 50% interest in Cameron Highway Oil Pipeline
Genesis Energy has executed a definitive agreement to purchase Valero Energy’s indirect 50% equity interest in Cameron Highway Oil Pipeline, a partnership, for $330 million in cash.
Innovations in plastic gas piping being put to good use
Officials from George Fischer Central Plastics (GFCP) and Arkema Inc. announced that the Mid-Tex Division of Atmos Energy Corp. has recently completed a 10.5-mile installation of 4-inch, DR-11, Hyperplast polyamide-11 pipe. This
Spiral-wound or kammprofile gaskets?
There appears to be a shift toward the latter, but the choice isn’t always clear. Here’s where best to apply each type.
- AFPM/API: President Trump officially overturns California (U.S.) gas car ban 6/12
- Decision on oil refiner Italiana Petroli's sale expected around end-June 6/12
- EIA: U.S. crude stocks fall, gasoline and distillate inventories rise as refining activity increases 6/12
- AB Foods holds off bioethanol plant closure decision until June 25 6/12
- EU to subsidize high volume of greener aviation fuel to boost airline demand 6/12
- Solvay, Veolia inaugurate new unit for recycling industrial flue gas treatment residues in Meurthe-et-Moselle, France 6/12
