Petrochemicals
Reduce revamp costs by optimizing design and operations
Combining process and equipment analysis with vendor solutions can minimize capital spending
Upgrade treatment operations for aromatics units
New catalytic pretreatment process removes troublesome olefinic materials, thus improving quality of aromatic streams
Optimize terephthaldehyde reactor operations
Korea's largest chemical company uses innovative modeling techniques to design high-performance reactors
Proactive automation maintenance cuts engineering hours, averts process problems
Some suppliers are automatically issuing control system updates and other important notifications
Temperature variation and its effects on pH
This important parameter is often overlooked in day-to-day operations
How to handle low-liquid loadings
Better tray design techniques reveal dynamics to improve minimum liquid load conditions
Consider the 'inside-out' approach to optimize distillation operations
Economic value can be obtained by involving heat exchanger and tower internal experts in the initial design development
New challenges face the chemical process industries
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Belgium
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France
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