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Discover new trends in oily wastewater reclamation

Refinery Water Engineering & Associates: Kujawski, D.

Refiners can find profits by ‘upgrading’ treatment and recycling process water

HP Reliability: Not ready for 29-year-old pump packing

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

In 2009 we were informed about “a nuclear plant that was never commissioned after its original construction. This plant has been sitting idle for 29 years and is only now starting up.” The o..

Solve liquid-hammer problems

Dalan Farayand Engineering Co.: Salehi, F.

Here are several options

New explicit friction factor equation for turbulent flow in smooth pipes

Bouali Sina Petrochemical Company: Sasan-Amiri, A.

A simple, explicit and high-accuracy equation is presented

A support vector classification method for regime identification of slurry transport in pipelines

National Institute of Technology: Ghanta, K. C.  |  Lahiri, S. K.

Statistical analysis showed the proposed solution has an average misclassification error of only 1.5%

Estimate water hammer loads in steam piping

Reliance Refinery: Darji, P.  |  Saha, S.

The problem is more complicated because of the two-phase flow

Explicit friction factor correlations for turbulent fluid flow in noncircular ducts and polymeric fluids

Bayer HealthCare: Goudar, C. T.
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center: Sonnad, J. R.

New equation provides highly accurate estimates

New explicit friction factor equation for turbulent flow in rough pipes

Bouali Sina Petrochemical Company: Sasan-Amiri, A.

It is more reliable and accurate than existing equations

Minimize power consumption in slurry transport

National Institute of Technology: Ghanta, K. C.  |  Lahiri, S. K.

Accurately predict critical velocity

An improved experimental correlation for Darcy friction factor

Techint Engineering & Construction: Cordero, G. O.

The pressure drop estimate may be on the unsafe side when using the traditional Moody chart