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| Process and catalysis factors to maximise propylene output |
Takuya Amano, Jack Wilcox and Carel Pouwels, Albemarle Corporation
Takakazu Matsuura, Taiyo Oil Co |
2012 / Q3 |
Catalyst selection and process design enable a new RFCC unit to maximise propylene production from a range of feeds
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| Challenges and opportunities of 10 ppm sulphur gasoline: part 1 |
Delphone Largeteau, Jay Ross, Marc Laborde and Larry Wisdom, Axens |
2012 / Q3 |
Prospect of a worldwide standard for ULSG and the challenges of increased heavy crude supplies demand careful considerationa and selection of refinery configuration
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| Natural gas fuels the integration of refining and petrochemicals |
Tanmay Taraphdar, Praveen Yadav and M K E Prasad, Technip KT India |
2012 / Q3 |
Maximising the use of natural gas in a refinery-petrochemicals complex offers higher margins and lower carbon emissions
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| Offline tools for on-site control implementation |
Ken Allsford, Bhaskar Iyer and Aric Tomlins, Advanced Solutions, Honeywell International |
2012 / Q3 |
Application of productivity tools and work process changes can expedite advanced control projects and reduce effort in refining applications
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| APC2: aligning people with control |
Raymond Coker, BP Texas City refinery |
2012 / Q3 |
A lead practitioner explains how refinery-wide involvement of people underpins a major advanced process control programme
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| Alarm floods and plant incidents |
Dustin Beebe, Steve Ferrer and Darwin Logerot, ProSys Inc |
2012 / Q3 |
Alarm floods and their contribution to industrial incidents can be controlled succesfully through all process states
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| Minimise corrosion while maximising distillate |
Brandon Payne, GE Water & Process Technologies |
2012 / Q3 |
Reducing atmospheric fractionator overhead temperatures to maximise middle distillate production requires a full understanding of resulting corrosion mechanisms
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| Reliable design of sour water strippers |
Nathan Hatcher and Ralph Weiland, Optimized Gas Treating |
2012 / Q3 |
A simulation model aims to raise confidence in the reliability of sour water stripper design
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| Monitoring and treatment to maximise light cycle oil |
Greg Savage, Nalco |
2012 / Q3 |
Fouling control, simulation software and tower scanning can improve operations and reliability when maximising middle distillate and propylene production
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| Monitoring and diagnostics for reciprocating compressors |
Jost-A Anderhub, Prognost Systems |
2012 / Q3 |
A guide to the purpose and terminology of monitoring systems than ensure effective operation of reciprocating compressors
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| Catalyst stripper improves FCC unit performance |
Rama Rao Mari and Dalip Soni, Lummus Technology, a CB&I Company |
2012 / Q3 |
Stripper internals with improved mass transfer characteristics improve the performance of an FCC unit
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| Gasifying coke to produce hydrogen in refineries |
Tek Sutikno and Kevin Turini, Fluor Enterprises |
2012 / Q3 |
Coke gasification to produce hydrogen for hydroprocessing is more capital intensive than steam methan reforming, but not so vulnerable to natural gas price variations
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| High-quality products from heavy sour crudes |
Maria Aldescu, KBC Advanced Technologies |
2012 / Q3 |
Application of current and emerging technologies will determine the potential of poor-quality crudes as sources of high-quality products
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| Removing fines from gas scrubbing liquids |
Barry Perlmutter, BHS- Filtration |
2012 / Q3 |
Think cake candle filter technology can be applied to a range of refining and gas processing applications to remove fines from circulating scrubbing liquids
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