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Environment

Demolition of a refinery—a site exit with many winners

Arcadis: Noé, K.

The demolition of a refinery site is a complex, large-scale project.

Combating normalization of deviance within your organization

Contributing Writer: Caudill, J.

NASA’s 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster investigation brought the term “normalization of deviance” into the spotlight.

Composite ionic liquid alkylation technology gives high product yield and selectivity

China University of Petroleum: Liu, Z.  |  Zhang, R.  |  Meng, X.  |  Liu, H.  |  Xu, C.
Beijing Zhongshi Aojie Petroleum Technology Co. Ltd.: Zhang, X.
Well Resources Inc.: Chung, W.

Global sentiment has been moving toward a call to develop innovative technologies that address environmental preservation and limit the use of hazardous materials.

Metallurgy solution to prevent polythionic acid stress corrosion cracking in hydroprocessing

Honeywell UOP: Hoehn, R. K.  |  Bradley, S. A.  |  Mucek, M. W.
Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal Corp.: Anada, H.  |  Osuki, T.

Hydrotreating is a staple process found in nearly every refinery. The process removes undesirable feed contaminants, such as sulfur, nitrogen and metals, and saturates olefins and/or aromatics to produce high-quality products.

Editorial Comment: It’s all in the makeup of things

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

This issue of <i>Hydrocarbon Processing</i> features a topic that has been addressed in sections of the magazine for several decades, but has never been a focal point of the publication. That topic is materials manufacturing.

Use your data to its full potential to prevent outages

HIMA Americas, Inc.: Creef, B.

In a process plant, the safety system is responsible for the protection of personnel, resources and the environment, by taking the plant to a safe state in the event of a fault. However, is the system capable of contributing more to the plant’s uptime and profitability?

2018 Industry Leaders’ Viewpoints

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

To kick off the new year, industry leaders and esteemed colleagues shared their viewpoints on 2018 and beyond with Hydrocarbon Processing. These viewpoints offer insight into growing regions of activity, technological advances, and how the downstream industry can innovate in 2018 and into the future.

Integrate solar/thermal energy in oil and gas processing

TechnipFMC: Gupta, K.  |  Ethakota, M.
TERI University: Payyanad, S.

One of the greatest challenges facing the world is climate change, the aftermath of emissions of greenhouse gases into our atmosphere. Awareness of climate change and its causes is spurring the development of new methods to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

India's Reliance aims to become big clean energy provider

MUMBAI (Reuters) — India’s Reliance Industries Ltd will become a major provider of clean energy in the country, Chairman Mukesh Ambani said, as the South Asian nation transitions to renewable energy sources from fossil fuels.

Editorial Comment: Hydrocarbon Processing forecasts $361 B in total HPI spending in 2018

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

What is the state of the global hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI)?