Equipment
Efficient facilities embrace control system predictive maintenance
Hydrocarbon facilities are operating differently and managing more pressures than they did just 5 yr–10 yr ago.
Contextualize. Analyze. Optimize. Operationalize.
Uncertainty in global hydrocarbon markets has led to the tightening of belts on capital expenditures while new capacity comes online, driving prices lower and pinching profit margins.
How digitalization is turning data into value in the heart of the refinery: FCC catalysts
Digitalization has impacted the world of refining for the past several decades.
Editorial Comment: Adopting digital technologies is not new to the HPI
Incorporating digital technologies into refining and petrochemical operations is not new to the hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI).
Business Trends: Tier 3 gasoline production: Challenges and opportunities for refiners
One of the biggest challenges to the crude oil refining industry over the past decades is the development of technologies capable of reducing the environmental impact of crude oil derivatives, while also raising their performance.
Decarbonization is at the forefront of environmental innovation
Earth’s carbon dioxide levels have increased appreciably within the last several decades, which directly correlates to rising environmental concerns of GHG emissions, pollution and disruptions of marine and terrestrial environments, among others.
Innovations
Total organic carbon is an important quality parameter in the various manufacturing and process environments that depend on ultrapure water.
New state-of-the-art in sulfur recovery?—Part 2: Environmental benefits
It is widely accepted that state-of-the-art sulfur recovery technologies utilize the modified Claus process as well as some extension technology on the tail gas.
Fast ion chromatography analysis for determining biofuel sugars
All industrial processes require reliable, accurate and timely methods for analyzing process chemistry.
TC Energy will give update on Keystone pipeline restart Wednesday
TC Energy said it expects to give an update on the Keystone pipeline restart later on Wednesday, a week after the 622,000 bpd pipeline was shut after leaking oil into a creek in Kansas.
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- Germany probes Klesch's planned purchase of bp refinery 4/9
