Q1 2013

01-01-2013

Refinery design in China ... Maximising ethane in liquids crackers ...Tracking performance degradation in a debutaniser column ... Operator training similar for a multi-product fuels pipeline ... Refinery operations gain from advances in digital automation ... Controlling film temperature in fired heaters ... High-capacity tray for debottlenecking a crude distillation unit ... Steam reformers for hydrogen and synthesis gas ... VDU vacuum system revamp ... Reducing carbon emissions with antifoulants ... Towards a zero (net) carbon refinery ... Modular design of smaller-scale GTL plants ... Starting up hydrotreating units with cracked feeds ... Optimising a process scheme for platforming heaters ... Improved hydrogen yield in catalytic reforming

Revamps 2012

01-10-2012

Updating plant information ... Hydroprocessing to maximise refinery profitability ... Fast-Track FCC installation ... Revamp of Slovnaft’s hydrocracking unit ... Performance audits for burners and flares ... Platformer debutaniser revamp and optimisation ... Planning for revamps

Q4 2012

01-10-2012

Challenges and opportunities of 10 ppm sulphur gasoline: part 2 ... Dynamic simulation: a tool for engineering problems ... Exploiting opportunities with challenging Crudes ... Valuable liquids from refinery gases ... Thermal oxidiser waste heat recovery ... Simulating and monitoring H2 plant Operations ... RFCC units set new standard for propylene production ... Value of monitoring exchanger networks ... FCC catalysts and additives for cost and emissions control ... Stripping sour water: the effect of heat stable salts ... Production of biolubricant base stock ... Mitigation of heat exchanger fouling ... Innovations in wastewater treatment ... Optimising sweep gas flow in a flare header

Sour & Heavy 2012 - Processing Opportunity Crudes

01-07-2012

Designing a crude unit heat exchanger network ... Vacuum unit performance ... Designing the CDU/VDU for opportunity crudes ... Desalting heavy Canadian crudes ... Challenges of heavy crude processing ...

Q3 2012

01-07-2012

Process and catalysis factors to maximise propylene output ... Challenges and opportunities of 10 ppm sulphur gasoline: part 1 ... Natural gas fuels the integration of refining and petrochemicals ... Offline tools for on-site control implementation ... APC2: aligning people with control ... Alarm floods and plant incidents ... Minimise corrosion while maximising distillate ... Reliable design of sour water strippers ... Monitoring and treatment to maximise light cycle oil ... Monitoring and diagnostics for reciprocating compressors ... Catalyst stripper improves FCC unit performance ... Gasifying coke to produce hydrogen in refineries ... High-quality products from heavy sour crudes ... Removing fines from gas scrubbing liquids

Gas 2012

01-04-2012

 A new approach to treating shale gases ... Heat exchange reforming in gas synthesis ... Micromachined gas chromatography for gas plants ... GTL adds value to gas production ... Using physical solvent in multiple applications ... Solutions for the treatment of highly sour gases ... Combating the threat of mercury

Q2 2012

01-04-2012

 Optimising pumparound reflux for zero-cost energy savings … Crude preheat fouling control helps reduce CO2 emissions … A novel investigation approach linking to risk assessment … Improved heat recovery from a hydrotreater … Column preheat improvement to debottleneck furnace operation … Useful tips for fired heater optimisation … High-purity propylene from refinery LPG … Assessing the impact of carbon pricing on refinery profitability … Carbon capture options for refiners … High-performance trays alone do not guarantee performance improvements … Combination mechanical slurry conditioning and filtration … Optimised hydrocracking for maximum distillates yield … Optimised reactor internals for a hydroprocessing unit … Accurate quality checks in catalyst regeneration

Catalysis 2012

01-03-2012

Evaluation of a low rare earth resid FCC catalyst ... Refinery fuel gas in steam reforming hydrogen plants ... Estimating silicon accumulation in coker naphtha hydrotreaters ... FCC catalyst coolers in maximum propylene mode ... Decrease catalyst costs by regeneration, analysis and sorting ... Optimisation of integrated aromatic complexes ... Troubleshooting a FCC unit