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September 2004

Archive

Special Report: Refining Developments

Heat Transfer/Piping

Piping/Reliability

Preferential corrosion of welds in HF service
Capstone Engineering Services, Inc: Mayorga, A.  |  Munsterman, T.

A high content of residual elements was the suspected cause

Refining Developments

Risk Management

Columns

HP Control: Establish software licensing guidelines
HP Editorial Staff: Gooch, J.

When buying software, you are typically NOT buying the software; instead, you are buying a license to run the software. A software license is a legal contract between the software owner (the ?licensor..

HP Reliability: Destructive force of water hammer
Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

Transient forces such as water hammer from sudden valve closure can produce large pressure spikes in the piping system. This can cause severe damage to the piping and any attached equipment, such as p..

HP Integration Strategies: Time to rethink process plant roles and responsibilities
ARC Advisory Group: Woll, D.

Over the past five years, US productivity has increased an average of 3.5% annually, topping at 5.5% in 2003. This productivity is primarily the result of cost cutting, including eliminating over 11% ..

HPIn Europe: Reregulators want the reins back
Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Weirauch, Wendy

After a decade of undeniable market liberalization, it's claimed that industry in Europe is entering a new era. It will be a time of reregulation and, if you're in the EU, it's coming to a legislature..

Letters to the Editor

Misc

In Memoriam

In Memory: Greg Hudman Gulf Publishing Company has suffered the tragic loss of Greg Hudman, our Director of Technology and Manufacturing, whose battle with pancreatic ..

Behavior of dry-running piston rod sealing systems in crosshead compressors
Burckhardt Compression: Feistel, N.
Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg: Vetter, G.

Various designs and materials were investigated

Free Literature

Simplified flow and level measurement FCI's CD catalog release 8.0 is filled with thermal and coriolis mass-flow instrumentation product data and case studies based on it..

Improve FCC yields to meet changing environment – Part 1

Consider new technologies that reduce gas make while minimizing product losses from catalytic cracking operations

Ramp up LP models with audits and transparent reporting methods

Use management surveys to close the gap between LP theory and practical business decisions