HDXRF vs ICP for nickel and vanadium in crude oil

(White Paper) - Technology introduced over the last decade, such as horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, has led to new sources of light tight ...

Enable cost savings and optimise production with real-time sulphur results

The demand for biofuels has increased in recent years, with the EU requiring that 10% of the total transport fuel in its member countries to come from ...

Improving turnarounds and operations with online cleaning

Case histories illustrate the financial and operational gains achieved by replacing mechanical cleaning with online, closed-loop operations. The conventional ...

Heat exchanger fouling analytics

Modelling the effects of fouling on the performance of heat exchangers and its impact on product values as well as energy losses

Planning to counter economic turbulence

Synchronising engineering and planning models should be a key aim to support the resilience and agility needed for economic recovery

Managing the life cycle of coke drums

Coke drums have finite lives. Understanding where they are in their life cycle is key to managing spending on repair or replacement

IMO 2020: meeting the challenge

Developments in fuel additive technology address challenges and uncertainties raised by the IMO 2020 regulations

Real-time crude and desalter monitoring

An analyser array supports corrosion management through continuous insights into changes in crude quality

Managing fouling in refinery networks

Modelling heat exchanger and other networks enables the use of dynamic fouling models in performance assessment and predictive studies

Experimental phase balance assessment for duplex stainless steel welded pipe

This paper discusses the assessment of weld metal ferrite content in duplex stainless steel pipe welded at a 45˚angle

Computation of heat conduction in welding of thick wall reactor vessels

The welding of reactors in refinery is complex due to various phase formation during and after welding. Each phase was unique with success of welding lies ...

CCS from refinery emissions: CO2 purity must be analysed and controlled

One of the most promising measures to decarbonise refinery operations is carbon capture and storage (CCS) from existing combustion processes, such as process ...

IMO 2020 - Maritime CEMS and refinery changes

For several years, the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has stipulated low levels of sulphur emissions close to densely populated coastal areas, ...

More petrochemicals with less capital spending

Even in nations with exceptional dependence on transportation fuels like Brazil, better integration with petrochemicals production is essential for re ...

Hydrogen SMR energy efficiency optimisation

Steam methane reformers (SMR) are the most common hydrogen production technique in the oil and gas industry.

Environmental monitoring and management in the downstream oil and gas sector

Keeping it clean, keeping it green. Ground water, rain water run-off and effluent. Contaminated soil replacement in spillage areas, excavated soil disposal ...

Managing fouling in refinery networks

Modelling heat exchanger and other networks enables the use of dynamic fouling models in performance assessment and predictive studies

Understanding basic principles of flow calculations

Valve size often is described by the nominal size of the end connections, but a more important measure is the flow that the valve can provide.

Spent sulphuric acid regeneration (SAR) process

Several chemical processes utilise concentrated sulphuric acid as a catalyst or dehydrating agent, in which the acid becomes “spent”; ie, weakened ...

Processing high TAN crude: part I

Huizhou, which is the first refinery for processing 100% high TAN crude, started up in 2009. This article describes the challenges of an opportunity crude ...

Hydrogen generation for modern refineries

With increasing demand for diesel, more stringent product specifications for cleaner fuels, reduced fuel oil demand and the economic advantages in processing ...

Sour water strippers: design and operation

Simpler, more cost-effective sour water stripper designs can outperform more generally accepted designs in the refining industry

Naphtha catalytic cracking for propylene production

Investment in on-purpose propylene production technology based on 
naphtha-based feedstock is taking on various process configurations

Gasifying coke to produce hydrogen 
in refineries

Coke gasification to produce hydrogen for hydroprocessing is more capital intensive than steam methane reforming, but not so vulnerable to natural gas ...

HDXRF vs ICP for nickel and vanadium in crude oil

(White Paper) - Technology introduced over the last decade, such as horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, has led to new sources of light tight ...

Senex to supply natural gas to Southern Oils Northern Oil Refinery

Senex Energy Ltd today announced a domestic gas sales agreement (GSA) for up to 2.5 petajoules (PJ) of natural gas with Southern Oil Refining’s Northern ...

Honeywell UOP Polybed™ PSA units supplying high-purity hydrogen for Hengli Petrochemical

Honeywell UOP announced today that Hengli Petrochemical Co. Ltd. successfully started up seven UOP Polybed™ pressure swing adsorption (PSA) units supplying ...

Axens will supply technology for Alpha-Olefins production to Baltic Chemical Plant

Baltic Chemical plant LLC, JSC RusGazDobycha subsidiary and Axens signed an agreement for the supply of alpha-olefins production technology for a project ...

Braskem selects UNIPOL® PP process technology from Grace

W. R. Grace & Co, the leading independent supplier of polyolefin catalyst technology and polypropylene (PP) process technology, congratulates its UNIPOL® ...

Listening to customers and learning from Covid-19

Covid-19 and the recent soft crude oil price prompted a slowdown in some markets for ABB Measurement & Analytics. Division President, Sabine Busse ...

Zhenhua Petrochemical selects Oleflex™ technology from Honeywell UOP

Honeywell today announced Zhenhua Petrochemical Co. Ltd will use Honeywell UOP’s C3 Oleflex™ technology for propane dehydrogenation to process 1 million ...

LG Chem selects crystallization technologies from Sulzer

As the global demand for acrylic acid is increasing rapidly, manufacturers need to choose advanced processing equipment that can deliver high quality compounds. ...

Uzbekneftegaz revamps Bukhara refinery with Honeywell UOP technology

Honeywell today announced Bukhara Refinery LLC, a subsidiary of JSC Uzbekneftegaz, will use UOP technology to increase crude oil conversion and produce ...

Lukoil licenses polypropylene technology from Lummus

Lummus Technology today announced that its Novolen business has been awarded a contract by Lukoil NNOS for a petrochemical facility in Kstovo, Russia. ...

How to achieve operational excellence with safe and profitable operating windows

(Webinar) - Plant of the Future’ is making headway towards operational excellence using technologies that enable safe and efficient operations to improve ...

Clariant to build new production site for CATOFIN™ catalysts in Jiaxing

Clariant, a focused, sustainable and innovative specialty chemical company, today announced the construction of a new state-of-the-art catalyst production ...

Burckhardt Compression to acquire the remaining 40% of Shenyang Yuanda Compressor

Burckhardt Compression has entered into a memorandum of understanding to acquire the remaining 40% of Shenyang Yuanda Compressor. Burckhardt Compression ...

Fluor JV successfully starts up boilers at New Al-Zour refinery in Kuwait

Fluor Corporation announced today that its joint venture with Daewoo Engineering & Construction and Hyundai Heavy Industries, FDH JV, has successfully ...

US refiners behind schedule to meet Tier 3 gasoline standard face costly adaptations

At recent industry forums, refining process expert, George Hoekstra, presented a detailed argument that much work remains for US refiners to profitably ...

MAN Energy Solutions and Wasco to drive Power-to-Gas Technology in South-East Asia

MAN Energy Solutions and Wasco have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to promote and commercialize Power-to-X (PtX) projects in South-East Asia. ...

Clariant announces new R&D partnership with Tianjin University

Clariant Catalysts and Tianjin University (TJU) put the spotlight on the future development and commercialization of new catalytic solutions to better ...

Wood and Aspen Technology partnership to deliver asset performance management solutions

Aspen Technology, Inc. and Wood today announced a new partnership that will offer Wood’s clients Aspen Mtell® asset performance management  (APM) ...

ADNOC to upgrade main oil lines and Jebel Dhanna terminal

ADNOC Onshore, a subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), announced today, the award of two Engineering, Procurement, and Construction ...

Emerson launches the Rosemount™ 700XA gas chromatograph

Emerson today introduced the Rosemount™ 700XA gas chromatograph (GC), the industry’s first single-analyzer solution to provide measurement of sulfur ...

FLIR Systems introduces Vue TZ20 dual thermal camera drone payload

Plug-and-Play Gimbal System for the DJI Matrice 200 Series and Matrice 300 Offers High-Definition FLIR Thermal Imaging with Zoom Capabilities to Improve ...

REMBE® Q-Ball® E guarantees maximum venting efficiency with minimum weight

As a pioneer in developing flameless explosion venting systems, REMBE® has fundamentally changed the world of explosion protection.  With the Q-Ball® ...

KBC releases value chain optimization manifesto

KBC (A Yokogawa Company) has released its Value Chain Optimization Manifesto to help asset owners and operators in the Energy and Chemicals industry drive ...

McConnell Dowell awarded civil works on Thai Oil's Clean Fuel Project

McConnell Dowell is pleased to announced the award of the contract for civil works on the Thai Oil Clean Fuel Project in Sriracha, Thailand by UJV, the ...

BASF introduces ZEAL™ FCC additive to deliver more propylene for refiners

BASF announces the commercial launch of ZEAL™ which is a new Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) additive product designed to enhance the production of light ...

BASF SE and ExxonMobil introduce OASE sulfexx

BASF SE and ExxonMobil Catalysts and Licensing LLC have released a new highly energy efficient amine gas treatment technology named OASE® sulfexx™. ...

Yokogawa releases IIoT predictive asset management solution in North America

Yokogawa Corporation of America announces the release in North America of its Sushi Sensor, an OpreX™ Asset Management and Integrity wireless solution, ...

Dow and Shell team up to develop electric cracking technology

Dow Inc and Shell today announce a joint development agreement to accelerate technology to electrify ethylene steam crackers, which supply chemicals used ...

ULTIMet™ high-activity catalyst hydroprocessing

Introducing Honeywell’s newest hydrotreating catalyst, ULTIMet™ .The latest addition to Honeywell UOP’s vast lineup of Unity catalysts, ...

Blasch Split Flow, 2 Zone Furnace

Senior Market Manager Jeff Bolebruch discusses the process improvements that can be expected when adding our VectorWall mixing system to your reaction ...

John Cooper, Director General of FuelsEurope and Concawe

We had a conversation with John Cooper, Director General of FuelsEurope and Concawe about how they are working with the European Commission and putting ...

Sulzer Chemtech automated weld overlay

In order to repair cracks and bulging in coker drums, they need to be preheated. This poses major challenges to the weld overlay equipment, as it has to ...

Introducing Sindie +Cl

Exciting news here at XOS, we’ve just launched Sindie +Cl! Sindie +Cl is a sulfur and chlorine analyzer delivering two critical measurements with ...

UOP XCeed™ bioreactor for industrial wastewater treatment

UOP’s proven XCeed™ bioreactor system helps solve contaminant removal challenges, meet wastewater regulation requirements and improve process ...

Separators - real time information on bulk level, phase heights and internal hardware

Our solutions help you to optimise your separator operation and maintenance by providing accurate, real time information on bulk level, phase heights, ...

5th opportunity crudes conference

Consider joining us for the 5th Opportunity Crudes Conference, to be held in Houston, Texas in Oct. 2016. The theme is "Effective Ways to Evaluate, ...

KBC Petro-SIM

Petro-SIM is the leading process simulation and optimization platform for driving excellence in facility performance and organizational productivity. At ...

Learn how to build refinery models quickly and easily to support your LP model

In this webinar we will present refinery modelling workflows, features and functionalities, which showcase Honeywell Forge Process Simulation’ refinery-wide ...

Ensuring business continuity in industrial operations

Join this webinar to discover the multiple areas in your organization where Honeywell Forge can help ensure the reliability, efficiency, and safety of ...

A layered approach to achieving plant-wide optimization goals

Join this webinar to discover the multiple areas in your organization where Honeywell Forge can help ensure the reliability, efficiency, and safety of ...

Driving machine learning through fundamental machinery diagnostics

Join Honeywell’s APM specialist, Ben Berwick, as he discusses how Honeywell leverages Asset Performance Management technology to recognize the earliest ...

High-Performance Tail-Gas Treating

Discover the benefits of applying the latest technology in modern, low-temperature Shell Claus offgas treating (SCOT™) units. See how next-generation, ...

Digital Reliability: 24/7 Real-time Machinery Diagnostics

Dynamics SPC discusses our turnkey solution we call COMPACS. COMPACS monitors the health of your equipment in real-time. We’ve spent close to three decades ...

Simplify crude assay importing in UniSim design by utilizing H/CAMS

Haverly H/CAMS is the industry leading assay crude management software with over 2000 assays. Honeywell's UniSim Design software links to Haverly H/CAMS ...

Intelligently predict and manage sour water corrosion in refinery applications

One of the primary concerns in refinery operations, especially when processing sour crudes, is management and mitigation of NH4HS (Sour Water) corrosion ...

Understanding the financial impact of a collapsed flue gas tunnel in your SMR

The overall influence of tunnels on the flue gas flow in a steam methane reformer has been modeled and documented, and the concept that running a reformer ...