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Process safety as a profit center?

Hydrocarbon Processing / September 2018
aeSolutions: Scott, M.  |  Schuler, T.
Environment & Safety / Maintenance & Reliability / Process Optimization / Refining / Engineering & Design / Environment / Equipment / Information Systems / Loss Prevention / Management / People / Products / Pumps / Reactors / Safety

In today’s economic environment, new capital spending is harder to find than loose change buried under the couch cushions.

Hydrocarbon Processing Awards

Hydrocarbon Processing / September 2018
Acid Gas Removal / Africa / Americas / Analyzers / Aromatics / Asia/Pacific / Catalysts / Construction / Corrosion / Desulfurization / Distillation / Economics / Engineering & Design / Environment / Environment & Safety / Equipment / Information Systems / Gas Processing/LNG / Maintenance & Reliability / Loss Prevention / Management / Natural Gas / Octane / People / Process Control / Process Optimization / Project Management / Products / Pumps / Reactors / Refining / Rotating Equipment / Safety / Sulfur / Treating / Turbines / Valves / Middle East / Europe

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

Getting onboard with modernization

Hydrocarbon Processing / September 2018
Schneider Electric: Robling, D.
Environment & Safety / Gas Processing/LNG / Maintenance & Reliability / Petrochemicals / Process Control / Refining / Engineering & Design / Environment / Equipment / Information Systems / Loss Prevention / Management / Utilities

While electrical equipment typically has a lengthy lifespan, it is not meant to last, or be relevant, forever.

Viva Energy’s Geelong refinery reduces FCCU turnaround risk

Hydrocarbon Processing / September 2018
CPFD LLC: Blaser, P.  |  Pendergrass, J.
Viva Energy Australia: Gabites, J.  |  Brooke, A.
Maintenance & Reliability / Process Optimization / Project Management / Refining / Catalysts / Loss Prevention / Management / Safety

Change involves risk. Many fluidized catalytic cracking units (FCCUs) can be operated more profitably, but changes to achieve more efficient operations can be risky.

People

Hydrocarbon Processing / August 2018
Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Rhodes, Mike
Economics / Petrochemicals / Refining / Management

Elliott Group has appointed Mark Babyak as VP of its cryodynamic products business, formerly the cryodynamics division of Ebara Intl. Corp.

Options for meeting wastewater effluent selenium limits

Hydrocarbon Processing / August 2018
Brown and Caldwell: Gerhardt, M.  |  Steinwinder, T.
Environment & Safety / Environment / Management / Treating / Refining

Wastewater treatment units (WWTUs) in petroleum refineries are designed to meet effluent limitations incorporated into National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits for “conventional pollutants.”

Hydrocarbon Processing Awards

Hydrocarbon Processing / August 2018
Acid Gas Removal / Analyzers / Catalysts / Cetane / Construction / Corrosion / Crude oil / Desulfurization / Diesel / Distillation / Economics / Engineering & Design / Environment / Environment & Safety / Equipment / Gasoline / Gas Processing/LNG / Greenhouse Gases / Heat Transfer / Hydrocracking / Hydrogen / Information Systems / Loss Prevention / Maintenance & Reliability / Management / Middle East / Europe / Africa / Americas / Asia/Pacific / Natural Gas / Octane / People / Process Control / Process Optimization / Polymers / Products / Pumps / Reactors / Refining / Rotating Equipment / Safety / Sulfur / Treating / Turbines / Utilities / Valves

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

Digital

Hydrocarbon Processing / July 2018
Petrotechnics North America: Murray, P.
Process Optimization / Information Systems / Management

Today’s digital innovation is reshaping industries, disrupting business models and operating practices, and transforming business ecosystems.

Develop competence in the process industry with a digitalized operator learning path

Hydrocarbon Processing / July 2018
Gas Processing/LNG / Petrochemicals / Process Optimization / Refining / Furnaces / Information Systems / Management / People

Industrial digitalization is changing the standards for operator training in the global process industry.

What are the financial savings from a refinery cybersecurity program?

Hydrocarbon Processing / July 2018
Honeywell Process Solutions: Ayral, T.
Liberty International Underwriters: Fligner, M.
Environment & Safety / Maintenance & Reliability / Process Control / Process Optimization / Refining / Engineering & Design / Information Systems / Loss Prevention / Management

Recently, the authors developed a first-pass financial estimate of the savings resulting from the implementation of a cybersecurity program for a 100-Mbpd refinery.