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Consider coal gasification for liquid fuels production

Hydrocarbon Processing / December 2012
Gas Processing/LNG / Process Optimization / Project Management / Refining / Acid Gas Removal / Americas / Analyzers / Asia/Pacific / Biofuels / Catalysts / Cetane / Compressors / Construction / Crude oil / Desulfurization / Diesel / Distillation / Economics / Engineering & Design / Environment / Equipment / Europe / Gas to liquids (GTL) / Gasification / Gasoline / Hydrocracking / Hydrotreating / Management / Middle East / Naphtha / Natural Gas / Octane / Reactors / Sulfur / Treating

Due to faster depleting natural gas reserves and more abundant coal reserves, coal gasification and CTL are solutions to produce liquid fuels over the long term.

HP Control: What’s new with FOUNDATION Fieldbus―Part 2

Hydrocarbon Processing / December 2012
Fieldbus Foundation: O’Brien, L.
Process Control / Process Optimization / Project Management / Americas / Analyzers / Asia/Pacific / Construction / Economics / Engineering & Design / Environment / Equipment / Europe / Information Systems / Management / Middle East / Safety / Valves

Remote operations management (ROM)—management of automation assets and resources that are geographically dispersed—is one of the fastest growing segments of the process automation business (..

Improve integration opportunities for aromatics units—Part 1

Hydrocarbon Processing / November 2012
Fluor Enterprises, Inc.: Vaidyanathan, S.  |  Zhou, J.
Apex PetroConsultants: Kapur, S.
Petrochemicals / Process Optimization / Project Management / Refining / Americas / Analyzers / Aromatics / Asia/Pacific / Construction / Crude oil / Economics / Engineering & Design / Equipment / Ethers / Europe / Hydrogen / Management / Middle East / Naphtha

An aromatics complex is a combination of processing units that can be used to convert petroleum naphtha and pyrolysis gasoline (pygas) into the basic petrochemical intermediates: benzene, toluene and ..

HP Control: What’s new with Foundation fieldbus—Part 1

Hydrocarbon Processing / November 2012
ARC Advisory Group: O'Brien, L.
Environment & Safety / Maintenance & Reliability / Process Control / Americas / Analyzers / Asia/Pacific / Engineering & Design / Europe / Information Systems / Loss Prevention / Management / Middle East / Safety

FOUNDATION fieldbus continues to increase its installed base in the hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI). The organization continues to develop the technology, making it easier to use, creating certi..

HP Innovations: Innovations

Hydrocarbon Processing / October 2012
Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Blume, Adrienne
Environment & Safety / Maintenance & Reliability / Process Control / Process Optimization / Refining / Analyzers / Biofuels / Equipment / Greenhouse Gases / Information Systems / Natural Gas / Safety / Utilities

Invensys introduces new technology offeringsSoftware and technology provider Invensys Operations Management recently released a program to help clients modernize and improve the performance of aging c..

HP Innovations: Innovations

Hydrocarbon Processing / August 2012
Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Blume, Adrienne
Environment & Safety / Gas Processing/LNG / Petrochemicals / Refining / Analyzers / Catalysts / Gasification / Heat Transfer / Information Systems / Natural Gas / Safety / Utilities / Valves

PCHEs boost power from waste heatHeatric recently supplied Echogen Power Systems Inc. with Printed Circuit Heat Exchangers (PCHEs) for Echogen’s Supercritical CO2 (ScCO2) power generation cycle. ..

Process control in the HPI: A not-so-sentimental journey

Hydrocarbon Processing / July 2012
ARC Advisory Group: Hill, D.  |  Woll, D.  |  Miller, Paul
Gas Processing/LNG / Petrochemicals / Process Control / Process Optimization / Refining / Americas / Analyzers / Asia/Pacific / Construction / Engineering & Design / Equipment / Europe / Information Systems / Middle East

As long as there have been hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI) facilities to process crude oil and intermediates, there have been instruments in place to assist plant operators in measuring, recordi..

HP Water Management: Avoid failures in water projects: Part 2

Hydrocarbon Processing / July 2012
MarTech Systems, Inc.: Huchler, L. A.
Environment & Safety / Process Optimization / Project Management / Americas / Analyzers / Asia/Pacific / Boilers / Construction / Economics / Engineering & Design / Environment / Equipment / Europe / Furnaces / Heat Transfer / Loss Prevention / Management / Middle East / Treating / Utilities

Last month, we discussed the need for project engineers to talk to process engineers about the water systems as a capital project takes shape. This month’s column discusses additional ways to bri..

HP Innovations: HPInnovations

Hydrocarbon Processing / May 2012
Environment & Safety / Gas Processing/LNG / Maintenance & Reliability / Petrochemicals / Process Optimization / Refining / Americas / Analyzers / Asia/Pacific / Catalysts / Engineering & Design / Equipment / Europe / Greenhouse Gases / Hydrogen / Information Systems / Middle East / Natural Gas / Polymers / Sulfur

Catalyst boosts H2 output, cuts costsHaldor Topsøe recently introduced a low-methanol, low-temperature shift (LTS) catalyst, LK-853 FENCE, which presents new opportunities for hydrogen and ammoni..

HP Innovations: HPInnovations

Hydrocarbon Processing / March 2012
Refining / Analyzers / Aromatics / Biofuels / Diesel / Gasoline / Information Systems / Safety / Treating / Valves

IVD vacuum vessel aids in corrosion prevention   Fig. 1. The IVD vacuum vessel   applies aluminum coatings for   corrosion protection.  Thermal processing systems manufac..