Environment & Safety
HP Insight: Petrochemical cycles – either you 'love it or hate it'
Commodity petrochemicals are a "love/ hate" business. When margins and profits are high, HPI operating companies are blissful and eagerly embark on spending sprees. They plan and build new capacity to..
HPIn SHE: The mysterious underworld
In Britain's north Yorkshire, there is a curious well in which the water regularly – and mysteriously – rises and falls. Not surprisingly, it is known as the Ebbing and Flowing Well. While n..
Improve liquid/gas coalescer performance
Using surface treatment for coalescer media, separator drainage capabilities can be significantly increased
HP Insight: A new era for the HPI
Will the new millennium push the HPI into a new era? For many years, we have discussed how the HPI would become a global industry. Interestingly enough, it has evolved into a globalized industry. So, ..
HPIn SHE: DIS-UNITED STATES
At the beginning of December, I flew over to England. I was running a week's course in reliability and maintainability as part of a MSc degree in process safety. On the way over, I had an interesting ..
HP Insight: Why build when you can outsource more economically?
December's Special Report focuses on the "lack luster" plant area – utilities. This processing area is too often treated as a "stepchild." However, if problems arise with the supply of utilities ..
HPIn SHE: Unit processes
Earlier, I was jotting down notes for this column while eating a greasy, undercooked breakfast, in an unheated, alcohol-free, departure lounge, waiting to board an aircraft, which had its last full se..
HP Insight: Perception becomes reality
U.S. refiners are facing a hostile environment. Great animosity is directed toward their final product – gasoline. Especially in California, consumers are distressed with potential health effects..
HPIn SHE: Lessons too late for the learning?
As we sang at Woodstock, "It's a lesson too late for the learning, made of sand, made of sand..." (If you don't know this song or have never heard of Woodstock, ask your parents or the old, white-hair..
HP Insight: If we only had a simple solution
If refiners thought that they were busy before, they must really brace themselves now. More changes and environmentally driven issues are ahead in the next few years. This is the underlying message fr..
- Clariant, OMV aim to reduce carbon footprint of ethylene and ethylene oxide derivatives 7/31
- Ampol, Graincorp collaborate for potential renewable fuels plant in Australia 7/31
- Brazil's JBS supplies animal waste for production of sustainable aviation fuel 7/31
- United is first airline to purchase SAF for O'Hare Int'l airport (Chicago, U.S.) 7/31
- Egypt aims to keep diesel prices subsidized 7/31
- illimity, Trafigura lend money to Italian refinery for energy transition 7/31
- Digital Exclusive: SPECIAL FOCUS: Digital Technologies—Utilize process simulation digital twin to optimize condensate yield
- Digital Exclusive-Flare system design: Liquid pockets in flare headers
- Hydrogen-rich content gasoline: A new concept for paraffinic gasoline reformulation
- Alarm rationalization at Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) refineries
