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| Refinery design in China |
Sun Lili, Sinopec Engineering Incorporation |
2013 / Q1 |
Poor-quality crude oils and strict environmental regulations promote the use of technologies that favour energy savings and environmental protection.
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| Maximising ethane in liquids crackers |
Muhammad Imran, Technip Stone & Webster Process Technology |
2013 / Q1 |
Economics for energy and feedstock supply favour ethane feed cracking, but plant constraints must be examined rigorously before maximum ethane feeds are pursued.
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| Tracking performance degradation in a debutaniser column |
Ali Abdulal, Vinod Ramaseshan and Stanley Gustas III, Saudi Aramco
Horia Orenstein, Mohammad Kurdi and Andrey Gaskov, SAS Middle East |
2013 / Q1 |
A project applying statistical and data mining techniques to historical operating data identified the root causes of a debutaniser's poor performance.
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| Operator training simulator for a multi-product fuels pipeline |
Santosh Alladwar, Cordell Chapman, Billy Mayo, Surajit Dasgupta and Javier Vazquez-Esparragoza, KBR
Daniel Vogt, Krohne Oil & Gas
Keone Jackman, Petroleum Company of Trinidad and Tobago Ltd
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2013 / Q1 |
An operator training simulator for a fuel products pipeline system was developed and delivered before the pipeline was completed to train personnel in operations
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| Refinery Operations gain from advances in digital automation |
Tim Olsen, Emerson Process Management |
2013 / Q1 |
Advances in digital automation can better enable the next generation of refinery workers to operate more efficiently, reliably and safely
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| Controlling film temperature in fired heaters |
Jinyu Jiao, Yuriy Morayko, Morten Theilgaard and Michael Ho, Worley-Parsons Canada |
2013 / Q1 |
Film temperature control is critical to the successful design of fired heaters, especially for heaters employed in upgrading heavy feedstocks
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| High-capacity tray for debottlenecking a crude distillation unit |
Kaushik Majumder, Shell Projects & Technology
Giuseppe Mosca, Sulzer Chemtech
Kent Mahon, Refining NZ
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2013 / Q1 |
Use of ultra-high-capacity trays in the most constrained section of a CDU enabled over a 50% increase in throughput at less cost than other debottlenecking options
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| Steam reformers for hydrogen and synthesis gas |
Norm Pelletier and Goutam Shahani, Selas Fluid Processing Corporation, a division of Linde Engineering |
2013 / Q1 |
Modern steam methane reformer design is a complex process that needs to be carefully optimised in terms of capital and operating costs
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| VDU vacuum system revamp |
Ahmet Bebek, Turkish Petroleum Refineries Corporation |
2013 / Q1 |
Revamping a VDU's vacuum system delivered operational improvements in a refinery, but also led to safer and more efficient handling of non-condensed gases
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| Reducing carbon emissions with antifoulants |
India Nagi-Hanspal, Mahesh Subramaniyam, Parag Shah and James Noland, Dorf Ketal Chemicals |
2013 / Q1 |
Carbon emission regulations make refinery operation more costly, but appropriate antifoulant treatment and monitoring can reduce these costs substantially
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| Towards a zero (net) carbon refinery |
Michael Stockle, Foster Wheeler |
2013 / Q1 |
Review of options for refiners to reduce the carbon emissions from their refineries. The technologies already exist to develop a refinery that has zero net emissions
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| Modular design of smaller-scale GTL plants |
Kenneth Roberts, Velocys |
2013 / Q1 |
Modularisation is opening up opportunities for GTL plants to monetise small-scale natural gas deposits both on- and offshore
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| Starting up hydrotreating units with cracked feeds |
Randy Alexander, Reinder Van Bruggen and Pierre Dufresne, Eurecat US |
2013 / Q1 |
A catalyst sulphiding process enables the introduction of cracked or heavy feeds to HDS units without the recommended three-day delay following changeover
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| Optimising a process scheme for platforming heaters |
Adil Rehman, Suman Pachal, Shyam K Choudhary, Ugrasen Yadav and M K E Prasad, Technip KT India |
2013 / Q1 |
Thermal imbalance resulting from an existing process scheme for CCR platforming furnaces is addressed by process schemes for distributing heat load more uniformly
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| Improved hydrogen yield in catalytic reforming |
Roberto Amadei, Chemical & Energy Development |
2013 / Q1 |
A process step that sends higher-boiling C6 hydrocarbons to light tops isomerisation delivers an increase in hydrogen production from naphtha catalytic reforming
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