Improving preventive maintenance using equipment criticality

Case study demonstrates the importance of rating equipment criticality in an effective preventive maintenance plan while reducing overall cost.

Steam methane reformer tube lifecycle improvement best practices

Reformer tube life assessment can be done via online monitoring, non-destructive testing, and tube harvesting with historical operating, monitoring, and ...

Conversion to a green refinery configuration: Assessing options, risks, and viability (ERTC 2023)

In order to meet the mandates of the Paris Agreement, as well as carbon intensity and greenhouse gas emission reductions, fossil fuel-based transportation ...

How to keep your risk-based inspection program functioning efficiently (RI 2023)

As owner-users continue to rely on existing risk-based inspection (RBI) programs, the question of how to keep an RBI program functioning and compliant ...

Evaluating purchased feedstocks for hydrocrackers and hydrotreaters

Over the years in my career, I came to respect traders who could locate, negotiate, and purchase cheap feedstocks. The good traders seemed like sharks ...

Proactively preventing reactor runaway events

A quantitative method for selecting emergency actions could prevent hydrocracker reactor temperature excursion and runaway while avoiding flaring.

Reactor runaways - automatic or manual depressuring?

Recently, I have had several discussions and inquiries regarding reactor runaway events and whether automatic depressuring systems are needed for hydroprocessing ...