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Hydrocarbon Processing Awards Winners

<i>Hydrocarbon Processing,</i> the downstream processing sector’s leading technical publication, has announced the winners for its third annual awards. The <i>HP</i> Awards celebrate innovative technologies and people that have been instrumental in improving facility operations over the past year.

Pinch analysis: A retrofit approach

Penspen Intl.: Raza, S. A.
Oman Refineries and Petrochemical Ind. Ltd. (Orpic): Hussain, I.

Pinch analysis provides techniques for heat integration to design the heat exchanger network (HEN), not only for grassroots design but also to retrofit an existing system and optimize the process.

Energy savings opportunities in unifining, CCR and benzene removal units

Tüpraş: Kahraman, K

Opportunities are always available to decrease energy consumption in process units.

A dynamic 1D model for accelerated reactor cooling

Aggreko Process Services EMEA: Capra, M.

Refinery hydrofining units must undergo planned and emergency shutdowns for catalyst changeover.

Optimization: Thinking of cooling towers? Go global and modular.

Aggreko: Childers, B.

When it comes to cooling towers, when should modular be considered?

Hydrocarbon Processing Awards

<i>Hydrocarbon Processing,</i> the downstream processing sector’s leading technical publication, has announced the finalists for its third annual awards.

Advantages of using TDL analyzers for safety monitoring in combustion within HPI applications

Servomex: Jenkins, R.

From refining to chemical production processes, heaters play an essential role in hydrocarbon processing applications.

Refinery revamp opportunities with welded plate heat exchangers

CDE Projects Ltd.: Kauders, P.
GESMEX Exchangers GmbH: Broad, R.

The plate-and-shell (P&S) heat exchanger has three significant advantages over the shell-and-tube (S&T) type traditionally used in refinery processes.

Best options for a reboiler revamp

Fluor Daniel India: Pramanik, R.  |  Srinath, N. R.

It is always a challenge to reconfigure and resize existing reboilers, especially vertical thermosiphon ones, for the revised design and operating conditions of a brownfield project, since hydraulics external to the reboiler must match the reboiler hydraulics under the revamped conditions to ensure trouble-free operation.

An evolving approach to digitalization

Emerson Automation Solutions: Wyatt, T.  |  Fleissman, R.

Much has been written in recent years about the need for refineries to embrace the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).