Compressors

Confirm best practices for compressed air in refineries

Within a refinery, four main utilities are considered essential to operations: electricity, natural gas, water and compressed air.

Maintenance and turnaround planning critical to successful ejector vacuum system operation

Steam ejector vacuum systems are generally considered to be reliable and require little maintenance.

Fouling mitigation strategies for process gas compressors in olefins plants

Indorama Eleme Petrochemicals’ olefins plant in Port Harcourt, Nigeria is designed to produce 300,000 tpy of polymer-grade ethylene and 126,000 tpy of polymer-grade propylene through the pyrolysis or thermal cracking of natural gas liquids (NGL).

Innovations

Selecting flare gas recovery system for a greenfield refinery

Overall energy management and operational conservation have become crucial factors for profitability in today’s refining segment.

Innovations

Ross Systems and Controls (SysCon) recently completed the qualification to self-certify its touchscreen purged panels as meeting the rigorous standards of Underwriters Laboratories’ UL-698A Code and the National Fire Protection Association’s NFPA-496 Code.

Advancing export terminal technology: An optimized process for the refrigeration of cryogenic hydrocarbons

Ethane production in North America (NA) has expanded dramatically with the onset of shale production and associated hydraulic fracturing. Ethane concentrations in fractured shale gas are typically 10% or higher vs. a traditional range of 4%–7% in associated gas.

Maximizing energy efficiency in paraxylene production—Part 2

Due to reduced margins, higher energy costs and rising atmospheric carbon dioxide content, energy efficiency has never been more important in refining and petrochemicals. This is particularly true in the modern aromatics complex, which produces paraxylene (pX), benzene and other aromatics from naphtha.

Burckhardt Compression awarded revamp contract at PAZ refinery

The Israeli government tightened its health, safety and environment (HSE) regulations so that they now reflect the highest level in this field. As a result, PAZ Ashdod Refinery had to revamp their existing process gas compressors for hydrogen application in order to be compliant with the new strict HSE standards.

Connecting rod failure in a new reciprocating gas compressor

Compressor failure in an oil refinery can have severe consequences on health, safety and the environment.