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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

 

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

 

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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