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Case 67: Extruder blowback

Consulting Engineer: Sofronas, A.

Understanding what is happening can lead to a solution

Achieve optimal heat recovery in a kettle exchanger

Consultant: Das, T.

Improve operations by avoiding buildup of sensible duty or by using baffles

Executive leadership—essential to ensure world-class turnarounds

Project Assurance, Inc.: Singh, B.

Many factors are involved in achieving ‘safe, reliable and cost-efficient’ turnarounds

Advanced process control: A historical perspective

ProSys, Inc.: Delaney, M. C.

A blend of art and science with a history worth recounting

HP Reliability: Consider procedure cards, technical books and maintenance conferences for training

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

Because our memories are imperfect and we don’t want to risk making mistakes, we learned to jot down brief reminder notes on paper. Some people call it a cheat sheet, or a checklist. An airline p..

HP Water Management: Water is the next oil

MarTech Systems, Inc.: Huchler, L. A.

In the future, increased demands for high-quality fresh water supplies will translate into voluntary and, ultimately, regulatory mandates. These constraints will require facilities to limit or to redu..

HP Insight: Technology and market share: Challenges requiring ever-changing solutions

In this issue of HPInsight, workforce, fuel quality and capacity overhang are a few of the challenges that the hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI) must address and resolve. Expansion of the refining..

HP Impact: BP’s energy outlook to 2030

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Thinnes, Billy

Global energy demand will continue to grow over the next 20 years, albeit at a slowing annual rate, fueled by economic and population growth in non-OECD countries. Increased energy efficiency and stro..

HP Impact: Octagonal opportunity for carbon capture

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Thinnes, Billy

Filtering CO2 from factory smokestacks is a necessary, but expensive, part of many manufacturing processes. However, a collaborative research team from the National Institute of Standards and Technolo..

HP Construction: North America

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, will provide technology to produce propylene at Dow Chemical Co.’s production site in Texas. Dow Texas Operations will use Honeywell UOP C3 Oleflex technology in a n..