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Safety around oxygen - Spare parts in air separation plants
Jun-2017
A blue liquid races through the network of pipes in an air separation plant. It is high-purity oxygen, cryogenically frozen to a liquid at -183°C.
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Development tools to improve plant design
Apr-2000
New tools are available today to improve LNG process, plant safety and overall efficiency. At the same time, advancing computer technology is enabling ...
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Oct-2013
Efficient project workflow in a revamp can be achieved using 3D design technology that integrates with laser scan and engineering data sources
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Managing a control system migration
Jul-2020
Overcoming the inherent risks of a control system upgrade relies heavily on collaborating and sharing information transparently with a systematic, integrated ...
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Advanced high alloy stainless steels
Dec-2016
The real solution to guard equipment against environmental stresses like corrosion is use of advanced high alloy stainless steels.
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Oxygen for mega GTL and CTL plants - Cutting-edge multi-train solutions
Jun-2017
Conversion processes such as coal to liquids (CTL) and gas to liquids (GTL) require vast amounts of oxygen. More than can be provided by one plant alone. ...
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Leading mega projects 
and revamps
Oct-2008
How to effectively lead a mega project, turnaround or revamp in a highly constrained resource environment. The leadership approach for successfully delivering ...
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3D metal printing in plant engineering
Jun-2017
A tailor-made spare part, produced just a few minutes ago by a 3D metal printer, fits seamlessly into the natural gas liquefaction plant. Now, the plant ...
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How ceramic solutions simplify field installation and address skilled labor gap
Oct-2018
Innovative ceramic designs simplify field installation and address critical manufacturing skills gap.
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Automated welding restores boiler performance (TIA)
Nov-2019
Biomass is becoming an increasingly popular fuel for power generation. It is one of several technologies being implemented to improve the sustainability ...
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Planning to counter economic turbulence
Sep-2020
Synchronising engineering and planning models should be a key aim to support the resilience and agility needed for economic recovery
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Value engineering: a continuous front-end process (ERTC)
Dec-2021
The concept of front-end loading of projects is not new, where robust planning and design early in a project’s lifecycle helps to influence changes in ...
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Dec-2022
A project management team was tasked with speeding up the installation of a large number of high-return opportunities by altering their current work p ...
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Advanced high alloy stainless steels
Dec-2016
The real solution to guard equipment against environmental stresses like corrosion is use of advanced high alloy stainless steels.
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3D metal printing in plant engineering
Jun-2017
A tailor-made spare part, produced just a few minutes ago by a 3D metal printer, fits seamlessly into the natural gas liquefaction plant. Now, the plant ...
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Managing heat efficiently - The manufacture of plate-fin heat exchangers
Jun-2017
The most complex task for manufacturers of plate-fin heat exchangers is the process of brazing. Millions of brazing joints are required to ensure that ...
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Oxygen for mega GTL and CTL plants - Cutting-edge multi-train solutions
Jun-2017
Conversion processes such as coal to liquids (CTL) and gas to liquids (GTL) require vast amounts of oxygen. More than can be provided by one plant alone. ...
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Safety around oxygen - Spare parts in air separation plants
Jun-2017
A blue liquid races through the network of pipes in an air separation plant. It is high-purity oxygen, cryogenically frozen to a liquid at -183°C.
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How ceramic solutions simplify field installation and address skilled labor gap
Oct-2018
Innovative ceramic designs simplify field installation and address critical manufacturing skills gap.
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Automated welding restores boiler performance (TIA)
Nov-2019
Biomass is becoming an increasingly popular fuel for power generation. It is one of several technologies being implemented to improve the sustainability ...
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Comparison of ideal stage and mass transfer models for separation processes
Apr-2012
The design and optimisation of separation processes is carried out using process simulators that utilise various calculation approaches. Two techniques ...
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Engineering gas-to-liquids projects — Part 2
Oct-2004
How GTL projects have evolved, from their inception through the various stages of engineering and study to the award of an EPC contract
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Are there alternatives to an expensive overhaul of a bottlenecked flare system?
Jan-2010
Changes in regulation or the revamp of an existing plant need not require an upgrade to a refinery’s flare system configuration
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Hydrocracker revamp for Grangemouth refinery
Jul-1998
BP Oil’s Grangemouth refinery has completed an extensive revamp of its hydrocracker and FCC, reducing production of fuel oil and upgrading to middle ...
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Engineering gas-to-liquids projects — Part 1
Jul-2004
An insight into the R&D, optimisation and engineering activities needed to take Fischer-Tropsch pilot plant data through all development stages
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Understanding basic principles of flow calculations
Mar-2008
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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Improved predictions for amine sweetening facilities
Oct-2001
A review of the work that has been done to avoid the severe problems that benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene can impose on sulphur recovery ass ...
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Working with an extractive distillation process
Jul-2001
A cost comparison between progressive extractive distillation of aromatics versus a more conventional technology has shown there can be considerable savings ...
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Cost efficient revamps in hydrogen plants
Jul-2001
Revamping of existing equipment is often seen as the cheapest and most cost effective solution, but this calls for a thorough knowledge of the plant, its ...
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Advanced recycle paraffin isomerisation technology
Apr-2001
An examination of how combining chlorinated catalyst, molecular sieves and well designed process configurations can maximise the value of C5/C6 strea ...
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Beating pressure drop with a trash baskets redesign
Jan-2001
Unscheduled turnarounds of hydrotreaters can be expensive in terms of catalyst and manpower costs, as well as the value of lost production
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Divided-wall columns — a novel distillation concept
Oct-2000
The technology of divided-wall columns using a single distillation tower, described in this article, is claimed to have investment and operating advantages ...
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Hydrogen: innovative business solutions
Oct-2000
A systematic approach to the problems that follow from the increasing demand for hydrogen in the search for clean, low sulphur fuels
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Improved reactor internals for HGO hydrotreaters
Oct-2000
Reactor internals of a plant’s heavy gasoil hydroprocessing units, which became inadequate for the operations they were originally designed for, have ...
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Cost effective revamps to meet the environmental challenge
Jul-2000
Expected legislation in Asia for cleaner transportation fuels face refiners there with a challenge to stay profitable. The new laws can be met in a way ...
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Development tools to improve plant design
Apr-2000
New tools are available today to improve LNG process, plant safety and overall efficiency. At the same time, advancing computer technology is enabling ...
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Hydrocracker revamp for Grangemouth refinery
Jul-1998
BP Oil’s Grangemouth refinery has completed an extensive revamp of its hydrocracker and FCC, reducing production of fuel oil and upgrading to middle ...
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Claus sulphur recovery options
Apr-1997
This article examines some Claus modifications which can alleviate operational difficulties and improve overall sulphur recovery
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Removal of NOx from FCCU regenerator vent gases
Apr-1997
Design of FCCUs has traditionally been aimed at optimising process yields and heat recovery, but legislation on emissions from refineries requires changed ...