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Process Optimization

Improve haze removal for FCC gasoline

Pall Corp.: Wines, T. H.
Pall Europe, Saint Germain-en-Lage: Darde, T.
Mol-RT Refinery: Katona, A.

This refinery used advanced coalescer techniques to separate very stable emulsions and dispersions by mechanical means

Anatomy of a capacity increase, maintenance project for an ethylene unit

Technip Upstream: Girodet, F.

Revamp work is achieved both cost-effectively and safely

Hydrogen generation – a brief review

Consultant: Khanna, V. K.

Project manager discusses vital design features

HP Water Management: What are the guidelines for boiler feedwater, boiler water and steam quality?

MarTech Systems, Inc.: Huchler, L. A.

Several industrial guidelines address the quality of boiler water and steam. These standards were developed to provide guidance to designers and operators of steam-generating equipment...

Developments in the ammonia process

To meet rising demand, producers seek methods to conserve energy and increase plant efficiencies

Developments in the ammonia process Fig 1

Fig. 1. Typical ammonia process flow sheet for a gas-reforming unit. ..

Determine the optimum crude intake level - a case history

Consultant: Hartmann, J.C.M.

When using LP models, users must be fully aware of what data is important and discard the rest

Improve tray operations

CH2M Hill: Sloley, A. W.

How failure occurs from blowing and what can be done to prevent it

Predict contaminant concentrations in deaerator-vent emissions

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.: Baade, W. F.  |  Kunz, R. G.

Here is a tool to estimate maximum concentrations of contaminants in hydrogen-plant condensate

Crude distillation unit online optimization

Tsinghua University: Hou, K.  |  Hu, S.  |  Li, Y.  |  Shen, J.

A stochastic model provides optimal results to the advanced control system