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Special Focus—Sustainability and the Energy Transition

Advancing clean fuels: Jazan refinery’s gasoline optimization achievement
Crude oil / Diesel / Engineering & Design / Environment / Equipment / Middle East / Refining

Strategic pathways to clean ammonia: Lessons from full and partial decarbonization
Kinetics Process Improvements, Inc.: Arora, V. K.
Ammonia / Carbon Management / Engineering & Design / Economics / Environment / Equipment / Petrochemicals / Process Optimization

The role of integrated and derisked technologies as a cornerstone of eFuels deployment
Axens: Bernard, Y.  |  L. Courtaud  |  C. Brunn
Biofuels / Carbon Management / Catalysts / Engineering & Design / Environment / Refining / Sustainable Aviation Fuel

Lessons learned from FCC biofeed coprocessing
W. R. Grace: Hunt, D.  |  Brandt, S.  |  D. O. Fowler  |  Y. Marekani  |  S. Krishnamoorthy  |  V. H. Batarseh  |  S. Montmasson
Catalysts / Engineering & Design / Environment / Process Optimization / Refining

Partial oxidation technology for clean fuel generation
Air Products: J. Kassman  |  J. Zhou  |  S. Yan
Engineering & Design / Gasification / Process Optimization / Refining / Petrochemicals

Too small to be viable? SMRs and their potential to economy-wide decarbonization—Part 1
Independent Consultant: S. Wattanasoponvanij
Carbon Management / Engineering & Design / Environment & Safety / Equipment / Hydrogen / Petrochemicals / Process Optimization / Refining / Reactors

Process Optimization

Simulating the amine treatment of hydrocarbon liquids
Optimized Gas Treating, Inc.: Chandran, P.  |  Weiland, R.
Engineering & Design / Environment / Equipment / Process Optimization / Products / Refining / Reactors

Going with (and accurately measuring) the flow
Digital Technologies / Engineering & Design / Equipment / Instrumentation / Loss Prevention

Maintenance, Reliability and Inspection

Mitigating structural resonance in an electric motor support: A field case study
Saudi Aramco: S. Al Dossary  |  W. K. Allah
Motors / Maintenance & Reliability / Loss Prevention / Refining

Root cause analysis on hydrochloric acid corrosion in a diesel hydrotreater unit
Engineering & Design / Environment & Safety / Maintenance & Reliability / Process Optimization / Refining

Water Management

Minimizing microbiological and scale deposition on the waterside of water-cooled heat exchangers—Part 1
SAMCO Technologies: B. Buecker
Engineering & Design / Environment & Safety / Heat Exchanger / Management / Refining

Carbon Capture/CO2 Mitigation

Process implications with oxy-combustion in an FCC regenerator
Indian Oil Corp. Ltd.: S. Gadari  |  J. Yelmewar  |  S. Kumar  |  S. Mukthiyar  |  T. H. V. D. Prasad
Carbon Management / Carbon Capture / Engineering & Design / Environment / Environment & Safety / Refining

Inline, real-time monitoring: The future of carbon capture efficiency
Thermo Fisher Scientific: S. Evans  |  J. Pandya  |  T. Dearing
Carbon Capture / Carbon Management / Analyzers / Digital Technologies / Instrumentation / Information Systems

Columns

Executive Viewpoint: Fueling the future: The essential role of biofuels in driving sustainable mobility
PHINIA: T. Anderson
Biofuels / Carbon Management / Carbon Capture / Environment / Products

Decarbonization without the chaos: Balancing today’s energy demands with tomorrow’s climate goals
AVEVA: McMullen, J
AI / Biofuels / Carbon Management / Carbon Capture / Digital Technologies / Engineering & Design / Environment / Greenhouse Gases

Protecting waste-to-energy assets
PPG Protective & Marine Coatings: J. Romanos
Engineering & Design / Environment & Safety / Equipment / Maintenance & Reliability

Trend analysis of sustainable aviation fuel production pathways
BBA Consultants: J. Nava
Carbon Management / Engineering & Design / Environment / Refining / Sustainable Aviation Fuel / Aviation Fuel / Biofuels