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Advances in residue hydrocracking
Recent developments in ebullated bed hydrocracking technology target high residue conversion and high quality products.
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Optimising hydrotreating catalyst reuse with Excel rejuvenation technology (ERTC)
The refining industry is currently under pressure to optimise profit margins in challenging financial conditions while adapting to a changing global climate ...
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Consider multivariate statistical modelling to maximise FCC unit profitability
Process models(a) and simulation(b) can be used to simulate the fluidised-bed catalytic cracking (FCC) unit process, kinetic or multivariate statistical ...
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Evaluating hydrogen rich fuel gas firing
A sudden shift to hydrogen rich fuel gas firing may not be prudent if a fired heater is not designed for it.
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For us, re-inventing reliability is a critical mission that impacts technology and product development. The above concept is also reflected in ESD-valves ...
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There is a good economic case for petcoke slurry as a refinery fuel, but first you need to deal with the rheology
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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.
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Managing fouling in refinery networks
Modelling heat exchanger and other networks enables the use of dynamic fouling models in performance assessment and predictive studies
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Sour water strippers: design and operation
Simpler, more cost-effective sour water stripper designs can outperform more generally accepted designs in the refining industry
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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 ...
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Energy management and sustainability of the downstream industry
Energy management must feature in any strategy in the downstream industry for both environmental impact and economic competitiveness.
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Delayed coking as a sustainable refinery solution
Fuel grade coke is a serious environmental pollutant but the producer, the delayed coking process, can be a contributor to future sustainable development ...
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The role of biofuels in the energy transition
Overcoming the challenges of coprocessing renewables.
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Closing the sustainability cycle
Role of plastics recycling technologies in the future of the downstream industry.
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Profiting from the lubricants market
Pursuing a profitable and more sustainable purpose for crude oil through the lubricants market requires examination of lubricants production via hydro ...
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Steam methane reformer tube lifecycle improvement best practices
(White Paper) - Reformer tube life assessment can be done via online monitoring, non-destructive testing, and tube harvesting with historical operating, ...
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Custom catalysts: Key enablers to sustainable solutions for the petrochemical industry
Given the almost universal presence of petrochemicals as building blocks for goods of our everyday life, it is no surprise that there has been significant ...
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Maintenance and reliability for rotating equipment closing the loop
Maintenance of rotating equipment is a vast subject that could fill volumes.
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Emerging LOHC technology (TiA)
The use of liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHCs) is part of broader research into hydrogen as a clean and sustainable energy carrier.
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Innovative vessel internals for enhanced safety when changing media beds (TiA)
In our previous article (PTQ Q1 2024), we discussed the challenges inherent in performing scheduled inspections within confined spaces of fixed-bed downflow ...
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Sulphur reduction, sulphur removal, and spent caustic reuse
Demand for flexible sulphur recovery solutions is increasing, including wet air oxidation, deep neutralsation, incineration, and processes that need sustainable ...
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Steam methane reformer tube lifecycle improvement best practices
(White Paper) - Reformer tube life assessment can be done via online monitoring, non-destructive testing, and tube harvesting with historical operating, ...
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Beyond processbook & PI vision: Exploring today’s industrial analytics tools
(Webinar) - In the Manufacturing 4.0 era, industrial organizations have more data at their fingertips than ever, offering the promise of higher production ...
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The Progress of SAF solutions for the Decarbonisation of aviation
(Webinar) - As the world increasingly commits to steeper decarbonization targets, the aviation industry is determined to develop sustainable solutions ...
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Topsoe awarded contract to support FEED study for new low-carbon ammonia plant
Topsoe, a global leader in carbon emission reduction technologies, has signed a contract with CF Industries, the world’s largest producer of ammonia, ...
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ClearSign Technologies receives two purchase orders from California refinery
ClearSign Technologies Corporation, an emerging leader in industrial combustion and sensing technologies that improve energy, operational efficiency and ...
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Topsoe secures first SAF project in China
Topsoe, secures, first, Sustainable, Aviation, Fuel, Project, China,
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NextChem acquire HyDEP and Dragoni Group
Maire Tecnimont Spa announced Tuesday that NextChem, through its subsidiary NextChem Tech, has finalized the acquisition of 80 percent of HyDEP Srl and ...
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Topsoe awarded contract to support FEED study for new low-carbon ammonia plant
Topsoe, a global leader in carbon emission reduction technologies, has signed a contract with CF Industries, the world’s largest producer of ammonia, ...
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ClearSign Technologies receives two purchase orders from California refinery
ClearSign Technologies Corporation, an emerging leader in industrial combustion and sensing technologies that improve energy, operational efficiency and ...
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Topsoe secures first SAF project in China
Topsoe, secures, first, Sustainable, Aviation, Fuel, Project, China,
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Aker solutions to upgrade Mongstad refinery for Equinor
Aker Solutions has been awarded a substantial EPCIC-contract by Equinor to upgrade the wastewater treatment plant facilities and lower the environmental ...
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Baker Hughes to supply 17 centrifugal compressors to Saudi Master Gas System project
Baker Hughes, an energy technology company, announced Tuesday that it has received an order by Worley, for and on behalf of Aramco, to supply gas ...
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IndianOil selects Lummus/Versalis cumene technology
Lummus Technology, a global provider of process technologies and value-driven energy solutions, announced IndianOil Corp Ltd, selected the Lummus/Versalis ...
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Beyond processbook & PI vision: Exploring today’s industrial analytics tools
(Webinar) - In the Manufacturing 4.0 era, industrial organizations have more data at their fingertips than ever, offering the promise of higher production ...
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The Progress of SAF solutions for the Decarbonisation of aviation
(Webinar) - As the world increasingly commits to steeper decarbonization targets, the aviation industry is determined to develop sustainable solutions ...
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NextChem acquire HyDEP and Dragoni Group
Maire Tecnimont Spa announced Tuesday that NextChem, through its subsidiary NextChem Tech, has finalized the acquisition of 80 percent of HyDEP Srl and ...
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Merichem Technologies acquires Chemical Products Industries
Merichem Technologies, a portfolio company of Black Bay Energy Capital, announced today the closing of its acquisition of Chemical Products Industries, ...
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Sasol provides state of the art catalysts to INERATEC for the production of sustainable e-fuels
The catalysts will be used, among others, in the first large-scale industrial Power-to-Liquid (PtL) plant that INERATEC is currently building in Frankfurt, ...
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Honeywell Technology helping to produce SAF with lower cost and waste
Honeywell today announced its hydrocracking technology can be used to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from biomass, helping to make sustainable ...
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AMETEK® Level Measurement Solutions unveils BrightTEK™
AMETEK Level Measurement Solutions (LMS), a business of AMETEK Inc, announces the launch of BrightTEK, a state-of-the-art wireless Industrial Internet ...
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Aspen Technology introduces AspenTech Strategic Planning for Sustainability Pathways™
Aspen Technology Inc, a global leader in industrial software, today introduced AspenTech Strategic Planning for Sustainability Pathways™, a new and unique ...
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Clariant launches new CATOFIN® 312 propane dehydrogenation catalyst
Clariant, a sustainability-focused specialty chemical company, today announced the launch of CATOFIN 312, its latest propane dehydrogenation catalyst. ...
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Yokogawa upgrades the CENTUM VP Integrated Production Control System
Yokogawa Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6841) announces the May 31, 2024 release of CENTUM™ VP R6.11.10, an enhanced version of the CENTUM VP integrated ...
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Vanzetti Engineering releases ESK-IMO series of retractable submerged pumps
Vanzetti Engineering presents the new ESK-IMO series of retractable submerged pumps, which are used in Small-Scale LNG Terminals and as Emergency pumps ...
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Audubon launches vapor recovery & reuse system for EPA compliance
Audubon Engineering Company, a leading provider of engineering, procurement, construction, fabrication, and technical services, introduced its patented ...
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The TracercoTM Insights Platform provides fast, secure and convenient access to your process insights, allowing you to rapidly and confidently optimise ...
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Exchanger leak testing - chemical tracers
Tracerco has been at the forefront of the development of online leak detection for the last 40 years. The method allows the detection of leaks as small ...
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Sulzer Chemtech offers the largest tray portfolio on the market. Whatever the requirements, we have the right tray! Continuous innovations and improvements ...
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Valmet Flow control for delayed coking
Improving reliability and productivity of your process. The delayed coking unit is potentially one of the most profitable operations at any refinery. It ...
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NEKTOR™4G is the latest generation of Grace’s marketleading low coke NEKTOR™ for residue FCC feed applications. NEKTOR™ 4G is manufactured ...
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Advanced flare and flare system designs
UOP Callidus prides itself in providing economical high destruction efficiency, high smokeless, low noise, low radiation flares for a broad range of flare ...
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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 ...
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Crystaphase, there is no magic behind reactor performance
It’s not magic. It’s science. Hydroprocessors know the wall that lies between them and peak reactor performance. Fouling, pressure drop, ...
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Watlow Semiconductor Processing - Adaptive Thermal Systems
Watlow’s Adaptive Thermal Systems (ATS™) are a suite of technologies that combine sensing, heating and controlling in innovative ways to improve ...
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Cetek high emissivity coating for fired heater refractory
Is your fired heater limited by bridge wall temperature, or firing duty? Instead of a full scale revamp, we may address these issues may by the application ...
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OptiPMD: Micro-Distillation Analyzer
OptiPMD, our micro-distillation analyzer is compliant with: ASTM D7345, IP 596 and in perfect correlation to: ASTM D86, D1160, ISO 3405 & IP123.
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Gas Flow & Heat Transfer in Catalyst
Magcat spheres produce a more uniformed gas flow maintaining good gas-to-catalyst contact throughout the bed.
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Optimising the efficiency of shutdowns and turnarounds to improve processes
Tracerco’s diagnostic techniques provide you with the invaluable insights you need to reduce your turnaround times and costs by identifying operational ...
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Decarbonizing process heat with industrial heat pumps and steam compressors
Industrial energy consumption accounts for about 25% of energy demand and CO2 emissions worldwide, with process heat being the most common application. ...
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Proven decarbonisation pathway for sustainable biofuels and chemicals production from waste
The flexibility to make use of varying waste streams as feedstocks to replace primary fossil resources is a common goal in operations today. You may be ...
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Introduction to Sinopec Steam Cracking Technology
Sinopec has been committed to the development and application of steam cracking technology for almost 40 years, and has mastered advanced and complete ...
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Introduction to the Sinopec Closed Coke Handling System
The Sinopec Closed Coke Handling System (S-CCHS) is a safe and eco-friendly closed petroleum coke removal, conveying, and storage system with remote intelligent ...
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Innovative solutions to shape the hydrogen economy
View this webinar for an insightful journey into the future of sustainable energy with Honeywell H₂ Solutions. In this exclusive webinar, we'll delve ...
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Tube Tech increases thermal efficiency by 3% at Tupras Izmir refinery
In today's episode, explore the solution provided by Tube Tech (an IGS solution) that not only increased thermal efficiency by 3% at the Tupras Izmir Refinery ...
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How a pulp and paper CFB boiler mitigated extreme erosion and saved long-term costs
In this audio case study, we discuss a situation at a Gulf Coast chemical plant where an ethylene furnace encountered a hot spot challenge, requiring prompt ...
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HVTS eliminates waste heat recovery boiler corrosion at copper smelter
In this audio case study, we'll talk about the changing maintenance strategy of the power plant operating two Circulating Fluidized Bed boilers. In 2015, ...
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Global Business Development Manager Dr. Stephen Firth and General Manager for the Middle East Afzal Khan talk about the specific challenges facing industries ...
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Overcoming severe refractory failure in a Saudi Arabian refinery
Today, we'll delve into the case study of how IGS significantly helped improve the operational efficiency of a Saudi Arabian Refinery by addressing a critical ...
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Innovating Together For Climate Action
Honeywell President and Chief Operating Officer Vimal Kapur joins Honeywell Chief Marketing Officer Laura Kelleher on this episode of The Future Is… ...