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Evaluate pressure relief system forces in existing installations

Smith & Burgess LLC: Smith, D.  |  White, J.
Frenk Water Technologies LLC: Frenk, B.

The purpose of this study is to limit the number of relief valves that require rigorous engineering calculations to determine the adequacy of the installation.

Improve your plantwide steam network

Merrick & Co.: Pelham, R. O.

When optimizing an existing steam network, design and process engineers need a complete understanding of all aspects of the existing system. Accurate energy and material balances must be established.

Update on wet and gas compressor seals

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

Shaft seals keep compressed gas from leaking out. The need for leak prevention may include process economy, safety and environmental protection. Moreover, the process gas will usually have to be kept ..

HP Reliability: TAMU Turbo and Pump symposiums still leading

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

Beginning in 1971, the Turbomachinery Laboratory of Texas A&M University (TAMU) organized the first of now 41 consecutive annual turbomachinery symposiums, now known as the TAMU Turbo. In 1984, Texas ..

HP Integration Strategies: 3D laser scanning delivers benefits in hydrocarbon processing facilities

ARC Advisory Group: Rio, R.

Present 3D laser scanning (3DLS) technology can be used in many diverse applications; it assists in improving efficiency and quality, and reducing time-to-benefit. For discrete industries, 3DLS can sa..

HP Water Management: Need a package boiler in a hurry?

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

Acquiring a package boiler is an unplanned event that requires process engineers to solve this completely unfamiliar problem. To reduce the chaos of replacing them, here are helpful ways to resolve this situation.

HP Industry Perspectives: 2012: Is it over yet?

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Romanow, Stephany

According to a year-end report from the American Chemistry Council (ACC), the global economy is still stumbling three years after the “great recession of 2008.” The Euro area is challenged t..

HP Impact: Increased operating costs in the Asia-Pacific region could derail growth

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Thinnes, Billy

Rising operating costs will be the biggest barrier to oil and gas companies’ growth in Asia-Pacific next year, according to a 2013 outlook for the industry by GL Noble Denton. While the sector&#1..

ExxonMobil commissions Singapore expansion of petrochemical plants

HP Editorial Staff: HP News

It includes a new ethylene steam cracker, two polyethylene plants, a polypropylene plant, a metallocene elastomers unit, an oxo-alcohol unit and an aromatics expansion.

PetroChina boosts Lanzhou refinery jet fuel yields with new hydrodesulfurizer

The refining unit, known as a hydrodesulfurizer, will help the PetroChina subsidiary produce 1 million tpy of jet fuel, making it the largest jet-fuel production base in western China, parent company China National Petroleum Corp. said Monday in an in-house newsletter.