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Engineering & Design

Bringing Industry 4.0 to the terminal

Oceaneering International Inc.: Kessler, R.

The oil and gas industry is no stranger to the power of Industry 4.0 solutions that aggregate sensor and planning/forecasting data into a single shared view, as well as deliver valuable analytics and real-time alerting capabilities.

Process design consideration for a deep-cut vacuum distillation unit—Part 1

In the recent past, many US refineries have been reconfigured to process heavy opportunistic sour crudes.

Revamp results for CCR catalytic reforming unit with atmospheric regenerator

Honeywell UOP: Kniuksta, A.
Star Petroleum Refining Public Co. Ltd.: Piriyawiwatwong, W.  |  Pipithvittaya, N.

The reformate market is changing.

New cable sealing system offers cost and maintenance savings for processing plants

Industrial Journalist: Røe, M.

Miles of cables of various diameters are routed into new process plants, industrial plants, petrochemical plants, refineries and other industrial applications.

Advanced process control metrics: Closing the loop on APC performance

APC Performance LLC: Kern, A.

For more than 30 yr, advanced process control (APC) has established itself as an important and relatively routine and valued part of the industrial process control and operation landscape.

Dynamic simulation for FGRS design and controllability analysis

Oriental Petrochemical Co. Ltd.: Chou, Y.
CTCI Advanced Systems Inc.: Hong, T.

In this study, a dynamic model of a flare gas recovery system (FGRS) with a high-pressure eductor compression system was developed in a dynamic simulation for process design verification, control scheme evaluation and an availability study.

Improve refinery production and efficiency with asset monitoring

Emerson Automation Solutions: Donnangelo, M.

The sheer volume of equipment in a refinery—from vessels, columns, huge structures and mazes of pipes to pumps, valves, controllers and instruments—is staggering.

Onsite

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

Jenny Hebert and George Yaluris of Albemarle accept the <i>HP</i> Award for Best Catalyst Technology.

Engineering Case Histories: Case 103—Addressing heat exchanger tube leaks

Consulting Engineer: Sofronas, A.

Heat exchangers have multiple tubes with fluid passing through and over them that either heats or cools another fluid.

More residue processing in FCCUs

Tüpraş: Genç, M.  |  Karani, U.  |  Er, I.
Albemarle Corp.: Kandaz, S.

Resid units have more than 2 wt% Conradson carbon residue (Concarbon) in feed and more than 5,000 parts per million (ppm) of nickel (Ni) and vanadium (V) on equilibrium catalysts (Ecat).