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Weirauch, Wendy

<i>Hydrocarbon Processing</i> Staff, Houston, Texas

HP Impact: Executive offers outlook for ‘global gas economy’

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Weirauch, Wendy

John A. Manzoni, Chief Executive Gas, Power&Renewables for BPspoke at the CERAWEEK Conference, Houston, Feb. 13, 2002. He sharedhis perspective on what he believes is an emerging global gaseconomy. Hi..

HP Impact: New projects to yield more efficient separations

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Weirauch, Wendy

"Petroleum refining is a series of separation steps," explains theOffice of Industrial Technology's petroleum team leader Jim Quinn."Energy can be saved in many of those steps." Each of five recentR&D..

HP Impact: Fuels combination to run engines of future?

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Weirauch, Wendy

Is zero pollution an objective that can be reached in five yearsusing available technologies? Yes, say the automakers and engineR&D centers meeting at an international conference on newcombustion proc..

HP Impact: U.S. water management trends to 2005

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Weirauch, Wendy

Demand for water management chemicals in the U.S. is forecast toincrease 5%/yr to $4.3 billion in 2005. Volume growth will average1.6%, to 15.8 billion pounds. In most major product types and innearly..

HP In Brief: HPIn Brief

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Weirauch, Wendy

Growth is forecast in safety systems despite a generalslowdown in the process automation market. An increased awarenessof safety standards and environmental concerns is fueling theupswing, says a new ..

HP Impact: Revised EU directive poses plant upgrade challenges

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Weirauch, Wendy

The EU oil refining industry is being presented with majorchallenges due to a new revision to the original 1988 LargeCombustion Plant Directive (88/609/EEC), which limits certainemissions. It will sig..

HP Impact: U.S. process catalysts demand to grow 4.4%/year

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Weirauch, Wendy

Demand for process catalysts (which exclude environmentalapplications) is forecast to increase 4.4%/year to $3.3 billion in2005. This increase is being driven by accelerating growth in thepetroleum re..

HP Impact: Gas partners save $102 million by reducing methane emissions

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Weirauch, Wendy

Annual results from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's(EPA's) Natural Gas STAR Program show that its industry partnersreduced methane emissions from unit operations and equipment leaksby 34 bi..

HP Impact: Air pollution declines as energy use climbs

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Weirauch, Wendy

New analysis of three decades of U.S. government data finds thatAmericans don't have to choose between healthier air and energyconsumption. A recent study of data collected since 1970 reveals "drama..

HP Impact: Forecast: record year ahead for NOx control equipment

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Weirauch, Wendy

Sales of NOx control equipment in the U.S. in 2002 willexceed $4 billion. This is a significant jump from $2.7 billionlast year. According to a recent forecast by the McIlvaine Company,"despite the ra..