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| Revamping crude and vacuum units to process bitumen |
Tek Sutikno, Fluor Enterprises |
2015 / Q2 |
Revamping crude and vacuum units to process dilbit can involve extensive equipment replacement as well as major changes to the crude preheating scheme.
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| Tube alloy degradation in a steam cracking furnace |
Glen A Hay and Ghoncheh Rasouli, Virtual Materials Group Inc
Toshiharu Morishita and Jinichiro Usami, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation |
2015 / Q2 |
Understanding catalytic coke growth mechanisms to better predict and optimise furnace service times with tube alloy degradation
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| Overcoming the effects of ammonia in heat exchangers |
Marcelo Senatore, Sandvik Materials Technology |
2015 / Q2 |
Forensic testing revealed the mechanism of under-deposit corrosion in exchanger tubes, a problem solved by replacement with hyper-duplex steel
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| Enhancing energy efficiency in the CDU |
Osman Kubilay Karan and Cansu Iner, Tupras Kirikkale Refinery |
2015 / Q2 |
Revisiting your crude distillation unit may expose hidden potential for major energy savings
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| Improving energy efficiency in furnaces |
Steve Chernack, Morgan Advanced Materials |
2015 / Q2 |
Developments in refractory materials and design can contribute to reduced heat waste and higher energy savings
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| Heat recovery from corrosive flue gas |
Bart Van Den Berg, HeatMatrix |
2015 / Q2 |
For improvements to energy efficiency in the petrochemical industry, waste heat recovery from corrosive flue gas is the most cost effective source to exploit
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| Best practice in energy efficiency |
Ron Beck, AspenTech |
2015 / Q2 |
Energy management software tools provide solutions for energy savings from design through operation
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| Advanced process control in FCC and hydrocracking units |
Grzegorz Oleszczuk and Marta Dylewska, Honeywell Advanced Solutions |
2015 / Q2 |
Implementation of advanced process control of two major units produced significant savings with short payback times
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| Increasing distillate production at least capital cost |
Joe Musumeci, Steven W Stupin, Brandon Olson and Carlos Wendler, Ascent Engineering |
2015 / Q2 |
Investing in improvements to the atmospheric crude unit can deliver increased distillate yields with short payback times
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| Advances in processing high naphthenic acid crudes |
Parag Shah, Mahesh Subramaniyam, James Ondyak, James Noland and India Nagi-Hanspal, Dorf Ketal |
2015 / Q2 |
High naphthenic acid crudes are cheaper and calcium removal aids and corrosion protection methods allow refiners to increase margins with better crude treatment
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| Seven rules of sedimentation in hydrocracking |
Scott Sayles, Robert Ohmes and Rick Manner, KBC Advanced Technologies |
2015 / Q2 |
Guidelines to mitigate sedimentation fouling in heavy sour crude processing together with case studies illustrating how the improvements are captured
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| Catalytic strategies to meet gasoline sulphur limits |
Patrick Gripka, Opinder Bhan, Wes Whitecotton and James Esteban, Criterion Catalysts & Technologies |
2015 / Q2 |
Stricter regulations reducing average gasoline sulphur content will require further reduction of FCC gasoline sulphur
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| Reducing vacuum tower pressure |
Norman Lieberman, Process Improvement Engineering |
2015 / Q2 |
To create a better vacuum the vapour load to the ejector has to be reduced
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