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| Automating procedural operations for continuous processes |
Maurice Wilkins and Marcus Tennant, Yokogawa Electric Corporation
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2011 / Q3 |
Progress towards a standard for automating operational procedures in refinery operations
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| Naphtha to diesel via novel routes |
David Gibbons, Foster Wheeler
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2011 / Q3 |
An unconventional, synthetic approach to converting LPG and naphtha components could boost diesel production
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| Optimising hydrogen production and use |
Ronald Long, Kathy Picioccio and Alan Zagoria, UOP LLC, A Honeywell Company
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2011 / Q3 |
Knowledge of hydrogen producing and consuming process technologies, systems analyses and process controls can be leveraged to optimise hydrogen use
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| Improving residue hydrocracking performance |
Joni Kunnas, Neste Oil Lee Smith, HTI
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2011 / Q3 |
Trials with a catalyst system for enhanced transfer of hydrogen to asphaltenes show reduced sediment formation and fouling in ebullated-bed residue hydrocrackers
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| Industrial-scale production of renewable diesel |
Rasmus Egeberg and Kim Knudsen, Haldor Topsoe Stefan Nystrom, Eva Lind Grennfelt and Kerstin Efraimsson, Preem
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2011 / Q3 |
A revamp has made possible the large-scale production of clean diesel with a significant percentage of renewable content
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| Improving solids handling in a delayed coker |
Randy Hull, Steve Stewart and James Teets, Marsulex
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2011 / Q3 |
A reliability model applied to a coke handling system demonstrates the benefits of compliance with a preventive maintenance programme
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| Refinery configurations for maximising middle distillates |
Arun Arora and Ujjal Mukherjee, Chevron Lummus Global
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2011 / Q3 |
A comparison of configurations for upgrading residual oil products for the maximum production of diesel
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| Bitumen processing: crude unit revamps |
Mike Armstrong, Rob Henderson and Jon Moretta, Jacobs Consultancy
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2011 / Q3 |
The ability to process bitumen offers a competitive advantage, but revamps of crude and vacuum units to process bitumen require significant changes to equipment
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| Improving profitability despite lower utilisation |
Eric Streit and Robert Ohmes, KBC
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2011 / Q3 |
Alternative and novel strategies can maintain and improve profitability despite lower utilisation of individual process units
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| Multi-stage reaction catalysts |
J Mclean, Bram Hoffer, Gary Smith, David Stockwell and Alexis Shackleford, BASF
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2011 / Q3 |
Recently trialled manufacturing technology combines two or more FCC catalyst functionalities within the same catalyst particle
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| Preventing environmental excursions on the FCC unit |
Ray Fletcher and Martin Evans, Intercat
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2011 / Q3 |
Guidelines to enable the FCC engineer to identify and eliminate the root cause of unexpected flue gas emissions
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| Catalytic oxidation of spent caustic |
Vivek Rathore, Shalini Gupta, T S Thorat, P V C Rao, N V Choudary and G Biju, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd, India
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2011 / Q3 |
A process to oxidise spent caustic in an existing treatment plant by a catalytic route in the presence of air enhances the quality of wastewater releases
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