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| Determining safety distance in process design |
Renato Benintendi, Angela Deisy Rodriguez Guio and Samuel Marsh, Amec Foster Wheeler |
2015 / Q1 |
Safety distance determination is a key design issue that may have a dramatic impact on a refinery construction project
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| Troubleshooting a C3 splitter tower Part 2: root cause and solution |
Henry Z Kister, Fluor
Brian Clancy-Jundt and Randy Miller, PetroLogistics |
2015 / Q1 |
Distillation trays are prone to channelling and multi-pass maldistribution in large diameter towers. Multichordal gamma scanning is used for solving such problems
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| Optimisation of a diesel hydrotreating unit |
Jose Bird, Valero Energy Corporation |
2015 / Q1 |
A model based on operating data is used to meet sulphur product specifications at lower DHT reactor temperatures with longer catalyst life
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| Monitoring and controlling emissions in Europe |
Stephen Harrison, Linde Gas |
2015 / Q1 |
Implementing the EU's Industrial Emissions Directive calls for quality and consistency in technologies for monitoring and controlling emissions
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| High sulphur recovery with ease of operation |
Michael Heisel, ITS Reaktortechnik
Frank Bela and Jorge Pena Lopez, Worley Parsons
Aurelio Sagardi-Rivera and Miguel Rendon-Sagardi, Pemex |
2015 / Q1 |
A process performing sulphur recovery and tail gas treatment in two catalytic reactor units exceeded guaranteed recovery limits from start-up
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| Safe removal of polymeric desposits |
Marcello Ferrara, Taeyong Kim and Cristina Ferrara, ITW Technologies |
2015 / Q1 |
Damaging polymeric fouling of internals can be cleaned in situ by safe chemical treatments
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| Hydrotreating challenges and opportunities with tight oil |
Bob Leliveld and Hiroshi Toshima, Albemarle Catalysts |
2015 / Q1 |
Tight oil's contaminant and cold flow challenges require appropriate catalyst treatment systems
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| Reducing reactor turnaround time |
Josef Felser and George Karl, Bayernoil Refinery GmbH
Ian Baxter and Gary Welch, CatTech International Ltd |
2015 / Q1 |
A refinery uses catalyst passivation technology for safer and more efficient turnarounds
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| Monetise off-gases for low cost ammonia |
V K Arora, Kinetics Process Improvements |
2015 / Q1 |
Cheaper ethane supplies present an opportunity for ammonia production using cracker off-gases
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| Business value of hydrocarbon production accounting |
Luis Rodriguez, ANCAP |
2015 / Q1 |
The gains that a refiner made by implementing an enterprise-wide hydrocarbon accounting system were both financial and cultural
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| Interface measurement for product quality |
Ingemar Serneby, Emerson Process Management |
2015 / Q1 |
Refinery product quality often depends on how products separate. Accurate gathering of data about the interface levels within vessels is therefore crucial.
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| Zeolite membranes for xylenes separation |
Rakan Bilaus, Saudi Aramco |
2015 / Q1 |
Zeolite membrane separation in p-xylene production exhibits low energy demand, low capital cost and compact unit size
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| Catalyst testing for hydrocracking and hydrotreating |
Jochen Berg, Tilman Sauer, Christopher Federsel, Sascha Vukojevic, Philipp Hauck, Florian Huber and Alfred Haas, hte GmbH |
2015 / Q1 |
High throughput experimentation techniques enable performance testing of commercial catalysts with real feedstocks such as deasphalted oil
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| Dynamic simulation of process controls |
Sepehr Sadighi and S Reza Seif Mohaddecy, RIPI |
2015 / Q1 |
Simulation of a catalytic naphtha reformer confirmed the accurate performance of control instrumentation
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