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| Optimising safety relief and flare systems |
Alban Sirven, Julien Grosclaude and Guillaume Fenol, Technip France Jeremy Saada, Invensys Operations Management
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2011 / Q2 |
Understanding the behaviour of refinery units by dynamic modelling of emergencies enables the prediction of realistic relief loads
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| Energy performance monitoring |
Robert Chares, Herve Closon and Hugues Stefanski, Belsim Jean-Claude Noisier, SIR
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2011 / Q2 |
A integrated energy management system supports improvements to a refinery's performance in energy consumption and emissions control
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| SO2 emission control for resid combustion |
Rick Birnbaum, Cansolv Technologies
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2011 / Q2 |
Regenerable and non-regenerable SO2 scrubbing systems for high-sulphur residuum combustion are compared.
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| Bulk separation of gas-liquid mixtures |
Giuseppe Mosca, Pierre Schaeffer and Bart Griepsma, Sulzer Chemtech Harry Kooijman, Shell Global Solutions International
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2011 / Q2 |
Effective gas-liquid separation is increasingly important to produce high-quality products from feedstocks of decreasing quality.
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| Diverting low-sulphur heavy stocks for fuel oil production |
Rajeev Kumar, Chithra V, Peddy V C Rao and N V Choudary, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd, India
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2011 / Q2 |
Studies enabled a refinery to divert low-value product stocks into higher-value products and preserve crude throughput levels.
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| Reducing carbon footprint |
Tanmay Taraphdar, Technip KT India
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2011 / Q2 |
An integrated programme of process integration techniques lowers CO2 emissions levels in refineries through energy savings.
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| A promoter for selective H2S removal: part II |
Gerald Vorberg, Ralf Notz and Torsten Katz, BASF SE Wieland Wache and Claus Schunk, Bayernoil Raffineriegesellschaft
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2011 / Q2 |
Refinery trials of an MDEA promoter demonstrate low H2S lean loadings and the option for enhanced process stability during high-sulphur operation.
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| Main fracionator revamp |
John Payne and Dan Darby, Foster Wheeler
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2011 / Q2 |
Space restrictions on site called for an innovative solution to replace a refinery's main fractionator mid-section
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| Small-scale gas to liquids |
Andrew Holwell, Oxford Catalysts Group
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2011 / Q2 |
Microchannel reactor technology is on trial for the small-scale production of liquids from stranded gas.
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| Simulation of a visbreaking unit |
S Reza Seif Mohaddecy, Sepehr Sadighi, Omid Ghabuli and Mahdi Rashidzadeh, Research Institute of Petroleum Industry
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2011 / Q2 |
Simulation of a commercial visbreaking unit supports optimisation of the unit's performance
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| Modelling for ULSD optimisation |
Klas Dahlgren, Apex Optimisation/Dynaproc An Rigden, Chevron Henrik Terndrup, Apex Optimisation
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2011 / Q2 |
On-line coordination and optimisation of refinery process units led to a 10% increase in middle distillate production.
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