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| Gasoline and diesel imbalances in the Atlantic Basin: part II |
Sebastien Fraysse and Seba Stien Huchette, Axens
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2011 / Q4 |
Options to re-orientate a refinery's production towards middle distillates
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| Future of opportunity crudes processing |
Brett Goldhammer, Claire Weber, Patrick Christensen, Serena Yeung, Thomas Garrett and Thomas Yeung, Hydrocarbon Publishing Company.
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2011 / Q4 |
Five critical drivers help refiners remain profitable and sustain long-term business goals while processing relatively inexpensive, low-quality crudes.
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| FCC catalyst optimisation in response to rare earth prices |
Solly Ismail, BASF Refining Catalysts
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2011 / Q4 |
Lower levels of rare-earth catalyst formulations offset higher raw material costs, but refiners must consider the effects on catalyst performance and overall profitability.
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| Thermal maintenance in delayed cokers |
Thomas Willingham, Controls Southeast Inc
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2011 / Q4 |
An engineered approach to line heating avoids plugging in a delayed coker's residuum lines
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| Evaluating tank farm capacity |
Alastair Painter, DNV
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2011 / Q4 |
Stochastic simulation provides a refinery operator with the information needed to optimise storage in the tank farm.
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| Optimal tonnage industrial gas plants |
Wolfgang Schoerner and Goutam Shahani, Linde Engineering
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2011 / Q4 |
Detailed examination of industrial gas needs is required to develop the most cost-effective industrial gas plant configuration
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| Fast turnaround for a SRU tail gas scrubber |
Steven Meyer and Andrea Trapet, MECS
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2011 / Q4 |
Reuse of groundwork and equipment, as well as previous experience in meeting permitting regulations enabled an 18-week turnaround of a tail gas scrubber.
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| Continuous removal of contaminants from amine solutions |
Sunil Dandekar and Jenny Shao, Eco-Tec
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2011 / Q4 |
A continuous purification system overcomes amine degradation and the formation of corrosion promoting heat stable amine salts
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| FCC air/steam rings |
Clint Cooper, Shaw's Energy & Chemicals Group
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2011 / Q4 |
Ring distributors are a simple yet effective means of improving air/steam distribution within the FCC unit.
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| Diesel hydrotreating and mild hydrocracking |
Andrew Tyas, DuPont Sustainable Solutions Clean Technologies
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2011 / Q4 |
Increased hydroprocessing capability must provide an acceptable long-term return on capital, while producing the desire product yields and qualities.
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| Zero and low rare earth FCC catalysts |
Colin Baillie and Rosann Schiller, Grace Davison
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2011 / Q4 |
Blends of rare earth-free and rare earth-based catalysts for resid feed FCC applications have maintained and even improved performance.
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| Assessment of crude oil blends |
Vivek Rathore, Rajiv Brahma, Tushar S Thorat, P V C Rao and N V Choudary, Bharat Petroelum Corporation
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2011 / Q4 |
A refiner's assessment of the compatibility of opportunity crudes in blends aims to avoid the processing problems introduced by lower-quality feedstocks
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| Flow metering vacuum tower bottoms |
Rainer Wetzel, Flexim
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2011 / Q4 |
A clamp-on ultrasonic flow meter can make flow measurement at the bottom of vacuum distillation towers more reliable.
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| Options for lower-sulphur marine fuels |
Karl Bartholomew and Antonios Panagiotopoulos, KBC
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2011 / Q4 |
Adjusting to new sulphur specifications for bunker fuel requires careful planning, taking into account market dynamics
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| Crude column relief mitigation |
Mohamed Abouelhassan, Simply Simulation Inc
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2011 / Q4 |
Mitigation of plant-wide relief loads can greatly improve the safety of the plant, reduce flaring and be used as the basis for building smaller relief systems
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