July 2003

With accurate information, refiners can apply new assessment tools to fine-tune plant networks

Here's a step-by-step procedure to determine heater performance

Here’s how NOx and CO control methods influence designs

The ability to schedule the crude oil blendshop more effectively provides substantial downstream benefits

Chemical failure mechanisms can disguise themselves as mechanical and vice versa

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Proper planning provides a stable platform for success

Proper adjustments will reduce initial investments and operating costs

Use these guidelines to determine the most economical solution

Through open and frank discussions, refiners and industry consultants endeavor to resolve problems and questions commonly encountered with sulfur recovery units

Chances are you are working with some equipment and component suppliers that see no reason to offer you upgraded components. As an example, your seal vendor may be among those that are ..

IEC 61511, Functional safety: Safety instrumented systems for the process industry sector, was recently released and is available on the IEC Website (www.iec.ch). This standard is well ..

Global turmoil, uncertainty in the economy and low business confidence are reducing consumer demand for products - resulting in excess capacity across virtually every industrial sector...

It is well acknowledged, certainly in the developed world and probably among many emerging nations, that the need for industry to heed its responsibilities with regard to greenhouse emi..

New company transforms HPI ideas into reality Bayer AG has established a global service provider company. The new company, Bayer Technology Services GmbH (BTS), is founded on the parent..

Software solutions licensed Quorum Business Solutions, Inc. (Quorum), Houston, Texas, has an agreement with Mustang Gas Products, LLC (Mustang), Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to license, implemen..

Tools to identify and control process information FieldSense, an intelligent solution for field system life cycle management, includes FieldCare software, ND9000 intelligent valve contr..

Air Liquide is supplying hydrogen and steam to Chevron Products Co. The new production facility will produce up to 90 million cfd of hydrogen to supply its El Segundo, California, refin..

Air Liquide is supplying a turnkey helium extraction, purification and liquefaction plant to two Qatari natural gas companies. Under a second long-term contract, Air Liquide will purcha..

A joint venture made up of Technip-Coflexip, Saipem and Stolt Offshore, in a consortium with Samsung H.I. and Daewoo SME, has a lump sum turnkey contract with TotalFinaElf E&P Angola. T..

AMEC plc has a three-year framework agreement with NIS, the Serbian state-owned oil company, and will provide project management and engineering services at the Novi Sad Refinery. Work ..

Chicago Bridge & Iron Co. N.V. (CBI) has a contract with Vopak Shanghai Logistics Co., Ltd. to design and build a liquid butane storage facility at the Shanghai Chemical Industrial Park..

Flaw detector offers viewing in direct sunlight Agfa NDT Inc.'s four-page brochure describes the Krautkramer USN 58L portable ultrasonic flaw detector with color transreflective LCD, fa..

  News of note from NPRA In 2002, ..

In business, it is not the nature of the challenge that is important but the quality of the response to the challenge. Aiming to identify needed responses, a new study from Transmar Con..

High natural gas prices get a lot of attention, but an equally important factor to watch closely is the volatility of the market. In the last few years it has increased substantially, s..

Japanese oil companies have been accelerating their investment plans to prepare themselves for the next set of stringent specification regulations - 10-ppm for gasoline and gasoil - whi..

The US market for polymerization catalysts is forecast to expand 5.7%/yr through 2007, reaching $1.1 billion. So says a new study from The Freedonia Group, Inc., a Cleveland-based indus..

The health of the light vehicle industry (automobiles, light-duty trucks, vans and sports utility vehicles) and the US economy are dynamically interrelated. The light vehicle industry c..

ACHEMA 2003 remains a premier international exhibition and conference for all segments of the chemical industry. This global forum - held May 19 - 23 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany - wit..

Purposeful specifications I found "HPIn Reliability" (Dec. 2002, p. 13) of personal interest. I thought what H. P. Bloch said was timely, important and worth repeating until the industry fina..

Ah, it is summer time. Many consumers are venturing out on holiday; thus, we are entering the peak of the driving season. In the US, much attention is now focused on gasoline pricing an..