August 1999

Operating scenarios provide insights into predicting behavior during changes

Calculations apply to a wide range of Reynolds numbers

Editorial Staff       Comments? Write: editorial@HydrocarbonProcessing.com Industrial facilities have been dedicating tremendous effo..

Reliability professionals attending one of HP's recent International Process Plant Reliability Conferences were briefed on the improvement approach taken by a large U.S. organization. This forward-loo..

A recent study by NEC Research Institute revealed an alarming fact about the Internet – search engines cannot keep up with its dynamic growth, in fact, they are losing ground. Search engines are ..

Recently, I paid a return visit to a site where I had conducted an intensive hazard study about five years previously. Sadly, not much had changed. Security had improved; they now had a guard on the b..

Fisher-Rosemount, Austin, Texas, has formed a worldwide strategic alliance with Elcon Instruments, Atlanta, Georgia, to combine the power of asset management solutions (AMS) software and Elcon Instrum..

Domnick Hunter Group plc, Tyneside, England, a world-leading manufacturer of high-efficiency filtration and purification equipment, has agreed to acquire the industrial products division of HIROSS SpA..

BP Amoco purification plant to come onstream this year BP Amoco will become one of the first producers of acetonitrile to have plants on two continents when its first European purification plant comes..

The Oxygenated Fuels Association (OFA) expresses 'concern'. . . over the "mixed message" conveyed by the Blue Ribbon Panel on Oxygenates in Gasoline. This panel was convened by the U.S. Environmental ..

A new report assesses the impact that emerging technological trends in the motor vehicle industry will have on refiners and marketers of motor fuels. It focuses on advances in technology that will all..

Typical of a classic commodity, polyester is now experiencing the result of the strong margins and product shortages seen in the mid-'90s. The symptoms include fierce competition and weak margins. A r..

From 1998–2007, 695 gigawatts (GW) of new generating capacity is projected worldwide. And additional 720 GW of capacity with service dates after 2007 or undetermined have also been identified. Th..

The U.S. industrial sector consumes more gas than any other end-use sector. It is one of the fastest growing sectors for gas demand. Industrial gas demand is expected to grow from 10.1 quads in 1997 t..

Worldwide user spending for mechanical CAD/CAM, CAE software will reach $6.2 billion in 1999, according to data from market analysts Daratech, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts. This is a 16.7% growth co..

Piston-engine aircraft will soon be able to use a new low-cost, lead-free alternative fuel that is based largely on ethanol. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently certified the fuel, whic..

The U.S. industry's energy use and environmental benchmarks are presented in a report from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Industrial Technologies (OIT). The document summarizes the industry..

Optimize ethylene recovery "Optimize ethylene recovery," by Mark Hahesy and David Manley, published in the April 1999 issue of Hydrocarbon Processing was a great article. The savings scope of 23% is r..

Are all environmental issues resolved? Probably not, we have just arrived at the lull before the next storm hits. Much has changed over the last few years, many of the previously promulgated federal a..

Process engineering includes both simple and complex tasks. Naturally, we spend more time thinking about how to do complex jobs instead of simple ones. That can be a mistake. Even simple tasks need to..