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Designing a crude unit heat exchanger network

Tony Barletta and Steve White, Process Consulting Services

Krishnan Chunangad, Lummus Technology Heat Transfer

2012 / Sour/Heavy

Preheat train design for heavy Canadian crudes can be very challenging, requiring an approach not normally required with other crudes
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Vacuum unit performance

Scot Golden, Tony Barletta and Steve White, Process Consulting Services

2012 / Sour/Heavy

Inaccurate feed characterisation and process modelling errors are major contributors to poor performance in a vacuum unit as refiners switch to heavier crude types
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Designing the CDU/VDU for opportunity crudes

Scott Golden, Tony Barletta and Steve White, Process Consulting Services

2012 / Sour/Heavy

New units for processing heavy crudes should not be designed using conventional practices or run length will be short, and product yields and quality poor
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Desalting heavy Canadian crudes

Tom Collins, Forum Energy Technologies

Tony Barletta, Process Consulting Services

2012 / Sour/Heavy

Effective desalting requires large desalters and attention to all variables associated with good desalter performance.
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Challenges of heavy crude processing

Maria Aldescu, KBC Advanced Technologies

2012 / Sour/Heavy

A review of upgrading options and refinery configurations to process heavy crudes profitably
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