Loss Prevention
Defossilizing the FCCU via co-processing of biogenic feedstock: From laboratory to commercial scale
Oil demand is expected to reach record highs this year1 after a sharp rebound following the COVID-19 pandemic.
Direction of cost-effective carbon capture and storage technologies
Around the world, many nations and companies are transitioning toward the decarbonization of energy.
Tune engineering teams in innovative green development projects
The energy sector is executing demanding projects to make LNG plants and refineries greener, and to implement completely new green energy solutions.
Advancing the feature sets of field instruments to improve connectivity, diagnostics and user-friendliness
Anyone observing process industries these days recognizes that they are very competitive.
Reimagining reliability analytics
The hypothesis that diversity among teams increases effectiveness is well-researched and published.<sup>1</sup>
Editorial Comment: Advancing catalyst technologies and a focus on plant optimization/efficiency
For nearly 100 yr, catalysts have been used within the processing industries.
Business Trends: Tier 3 gasoline production: The value of flexibility in volatile fuel markets
Despite the forecasted trend of declining demand for transportation fuels, many markets still depend heavily on these crude oil derivatives to sustain economic activity.
FCC and HDS feed flexibility and integration with the delayed coker in the Izmit refinery
Operational flexibility is one of the key parameters that leads to success and sustainability in refinery production.
Critical considerations for retrofit designing a platformer reactor’s partial bypass piping in a NHT plant
The naphtha hydrotreater/continuous catalyst regeneration (NHT/CCR) platformer produces reformate to be utilized as a blending stock in the gasoline pool (FIG. 1).
Risk identification and management
Operations within the hydrocarbon industry involve numerous hazards to be identified, mitigated and maintained at as low a level as reasonably practicable.
- KBR wins conceptual study contract for floating blue ammonia production by Samsung Heavy Industries 9/12
- Singapore's largest data center to use Neste renewable diesel to power generators 9/12
- BASF inaugurates new plant for alkyl ethanolamines at its Antwerp Verbund site 9/12
- Ceres Power Holdings signs SOEC systems license with Thermax to decarbonize hard-to-abate industries 9/12
- Ineos to cease refinery operations at Grangemouth 9/12
- NewEnergyBlue acquires Inbicon biomass conversion technology and international patent portfolio 9/12
