Q4 2020

03-10-2020

Q&A, FCC catalyst boosts bottoms upgrade ... Halide corrosion in hydroprocessing Mitigating corrosion with a digital twin ... Should you rely on your simulation results? ... Process safety time for fired heaters ... The hazards of fired heater flooding ... Realities of heat flux in fired heaters ... Recovering hydrogen and LPG from off-gases ... IIoT in energy optimisation ... SMR for fuel cell grade hydrogen ... Column revamp boosts diesel production ... Raising diesel yield by chemical treatment ... Selecting turboexpanders for PDH ... Digitalisation for improved operations ... Furnace cleaning by robots ... Technology In Action.

Revamps 2020

02-10-2020

Effective preparation for turnarounds ... Hydrocracker revamp lifts product flexibility ... High performance internals in severe service ... Start-up and shutdown issues in sulphur processing ... Modelling ensures a successful revamp ... lanning a turnaround that fits ... Revamping an integrated hydrocracker and lube base oil unit.

Q3 2020

01-07-2020

Spending your way out ... Q&A ... Capturing carbon dioxide from refinery streams ... Heat exchanger fouling analytics ... Planning to counter economic turbulence ... IMO 2020: meeting the challenge ... Protect control valves when production slows ... Real-time crude and desalter monitoring ... Improving turnarounds and operations with online cleaning ... Molecular management for refinery-petrochemical complexes ... Remote management of hydrogen production ... More petrochemicals with less capital spending ... Types of corrosion and materials to combat them ... Boosting mild hydrocracking performance ... Troubleshooting premature tower flooding ... Managing the life cycle of coke drums ... Technology In Action.

Q2 2020

02-04-2020

Duel dilema ... Q2 Q&A ... Evolution of a digital twin. Part 2: Use of the digital twin ... Improving hydrotreater performance with welded plate heat exchangers ... Cross-unit APC boosts downstream performance ... Steam reforming catalysts raise production efficiency ... Oil-to-chemicals: new approaches ... Model predictive control in a lube oil complex ... When excess air becomes too much ... Increase hydrogen production during a turnaround ... Managing a control system migration ... Increase duty in tube side condensers ... Downtime damages environmental performance too ... Back-up for water treatment ... Petrochemicals from refinery intermediates — beyond polyolefins.

Gas 2020

01-04-2020

To flare or not ... Gas Q&A ... Contamination in gas compression: causes, effects, and solutions ... Amine cleaning in gas treating ... Revamping the sulphur plant ... Efficiency factors in natural gas fired steam boilers ... Gas analysis in petrochemical production ... Growth by association ... Technology In Action.

Catalysis 2020

24-03-2020

It's all in the pores ... Catalysis Q&A ... FCC catalyst accelerates bottoms upgrading ... Developments in refining catalysts ... Boosting hydrocracker heavy feed conversion ... Pilot plant studies of hydrotreating catalysts ... Resid to propylene: the two-step approach ... FCC equilibrium catalyst analysis ... Pre-reformer catalyst in a hydrogen plant.

Q1 2020

01-01-2020

Evolution of a digital twin. Part 1: the concept ... Dividing wall technology in distillation columns ... SMR integration with increased CO2 production ... Dealing with more sulphur post-IMO 2020 ... How refiners can optimise for IMO 2020 ... Preparing for the energy transition ... Cleaning heater convection tubes ... Revamping a crude distillation unit ... Estimating delayed coker yields ... High octane isomerates from light naphtha ... Chloride management in reformer product streams ... Developing a modular SAGD design ... Value from data.

2019 ERTC Newspaper

03-11-2019

Arkema achieved its 6000th sulphiding job in September 2019 -- Sabin Metal Corp. announces capacity expansion project -- Renewables: four options for greater market share and profitability -- Introducing FUSION – the best of both worlds -- Implementing advanced technologies for crude to chemicals projects -- Case study: How Shell is navigating the energy transition -- The future is now -- Celebrating women in the downstream industry -- Be future forward -- Refineries with challenges -- Will electrification trump CCS as a decarbonisation pathway?......