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Environment & Safety

Improve waterside operation for waste-heat boiler

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

Better water chemistry practices can increase reliability of sulfur recovery units

Troubleshoot reverse osmosis units online

Nalco Co.: Kucera, J.

Identifying the root causes for poor performance saves operating costs and improves water quality

Consider membrane technologies to treat oily wastewater

GE Water & Process Technologies: Peeters, J. G.  |  Theodoulou, S. L.

Advanced methods enable recycling process water for plant applications

What can you do to enhance the safety of operations?

Fluor Daniel: Bhullar, R. S.

The US Chemical Safety Board's fatal blast report makes it imperative to take a serious look at your plant's loss prevention practices, particularly the instrumentation and sensors that provide critical information for prompt action

HP Automation Safety: Still not using a safety PLC?

exida LLC: Goble, W.

The concept of using a special-purpose programmable logic control (PLC)/controller designed for fail-safe operation started over 25 years ago. The early programmable machines were designed applying th..

Choosing the wrong flame arrestor can prevent capacity enhancement

Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's: Abdi, M. A.
National Iranian Oil Co.: Golkar, M. M.

This Iranian gas facility debottlenecked its process and increased production

Clean fuel trends in Asia: Contribution of MTBE

Asian Clean Fuels Association: Woo, C.

Growing vehicle population requires innovative solutions to curb air emissions

Improve prediction of cetane index and smoke point

Syncrude Canada Ltd.: Yui, S.

New correlations more accurately estimate properties for conventional and oil sands-derived middle distillates

New power approach reduces air emissions

Jacobs Canada Inc.: MacGregor, R.

Integrating binary power plants conserves heat energy and generates electricity for bitumen extraction site

Consider coal for olefins production

Johnson Matthey Process Technologies: Roberts, P.
Davy Process Technology: Sutton, M.

Advanced methods use methanol as a valuable processing step to convert coal into various petrochemicals