Environment & Safety Gas Processing/LNG Maintenance & Reliability Petrochemicals Process Control Process Optimization Project Management Refining

Equipment

HP Viewpoint: Interview with UOP

UOP, A Honeywell Co.: Gautam, R.

Hydrocarbon Processing had the opportunity to meet with Dr. Rajeev Gautam, president and CEO of UOP, A Honeywell Co., and discuss several high-level factors impacting the global hydrocarbon processing..

HP Automation Safety: It’s all about the safety PLC—not!

exida LLC: Goble, W.

Focus on the big safety improvements and the real problems. This fundamental concept applies to many tasks in addition to functional safety.

HP Industry Perspectives: Energy industry expects approval on the Keystone XL

With US President Barack Obama’s second four-year term now secure, most in the global hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI) expect the Obama administration to ultimately approve the controversial..

Improve evaluation of brittle-fracture resistance for vessels

Becht Engineering Co. Inc.: Sims, J. R.

This article discusses a new approach and spreadsheet tool for engineers that can be used to provide operating pressure limits as a function of vessel-metal temperatures.

Update on wet and gas compressor seals

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

Shaft seals keep compressed gas from leaking out. The need for leak prevention may include process economy, safety and environmental protection. Moreover, the process gas will usually have to be kept ..

HP Reliability: TAMU Turbo and Pump symposiums still leading

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

Beginning in 1971, the Turbomachinery Laboratory of Texas A&M University (TAMU) organized the first of now 41 consecutive annual turbomachinery symposiums, now known as the TAMU Turbo. In 1984, Texas ..

HP Integration Strategies: 3D laser scanning delivers benefits in hydrocarbon processing facilities

ARC Advisory Group: Rio, R.

Present 3D laser scanning (3DLS) technology can be used in many diverse applications; it assists in improving efficiency and quality, and reducing time-to-benefit. For discrete industries, 3DLS can sa..

HP Water Management: Need a package boiler in a hurry?

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

Acquiring a package boiler is an unplanned event that requires process engineers to solve this completely unfamiliar problem. To reduce the chaos of replacing them, here are helpful ways to resolve this situation.

HP Industry Perspectives: 2012: Is it over yet?

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Romanow, Stephany

According to a year-end report from the American Chemistry Council (ACC), the global economy is still stumbling three years after the “great recession of 2008.” The Euro area is challenged t..

Shell to collaborate in FLNG with Technip, Samsung

The agreement between the firms builds on the existing relationship, formed in 2009, to ensure the companies can capitalize on insights gleaned from the design and construction of Shell's Prelude FLNG facility in Australia and expand their technology offerings to the global energy market.