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Increase diesel recovery

CH2M Hill: Sloley, A. W.

New approaches fine-tune methods to separate more diesel as product stream

Use of 3D scanning safely saves time, money for a Louisiana plant retrofitting

Trimble: Ahern, B.

The technology facilitates design by enabling interference checking, accurate parts prefabrication and visualization of results

Cracking in C3 cut/propylene Horton spheres

Reliance Industries Ltd.: Gupta, R. P.  |  Harkare, Y. V.

Here's how the problem was diagnosed and solved

Analysis of pressure increase during filling of pressurized LPG storage systems

Bechtel India Pvt Ltd.: Mathur, S.
Technip USA: Nanda, R.

Use this method to determine when a vapor handling system is needed

Increased plant safety puts focus on tank gauging

Emerson Process Management: Skaug, C.

Safety integrity level requirements are now being incorporated

The effect of kinetic energy change on flow in gas pipelines

Department of Chemical Engineering, Falculty of Engineering, University of Tehran: Demneh, F. A.
Process and Energy Laboratory, Delft Univeristy of Technology: Mesbah, A.

The significance of the acceleration term in pressure drop calculations is investigated

Quantifying the benefits of virtual plant modeling

INOVx Solutions: Ayral, T.  |  Lanza, C.

As with any new and significant development, plant managers may eventually wonder how they were able to effectively perform their work before this technology existed

HP Water Management: Could your process cooling tower close your plant?

MarTech Systems, Inc.: Huchler, L. A.

LORAINE A. HUCHLER, Contributing Editor    Comments? Write: editorial@HydrocarbonProcessing.com If legionella bacteria were present in the..

Distillation column relief loads—Part 2

Jacobs Engineering: Nezami, P. L.

The conventional method is expanded and a series of guidelines are developed

Improve crude oil fractionation by distributed distillation

URS Corp.: Haddad, H. N.
Missouri University of Science and Technology: Manley, D. B.

Heat-integrated distributed distillation in crude oil fractionation can reduce energy consumption and emissions