In late September, Hydrocarbon Processing hosted the International Refining and Petrochemical Conference (IRPC).
Hydrocarbon Processing, the downstream processing sector’s leading technical publication for nearly 100 yr, has announced the winners for its fifth annual HP Awards, which celebrate innovative technologies and people that have been instrumental in improving facility operations over the past year.
Procuring equipment, materials and services are very important to a project’s financial success.
In Part 1, the broad concept of materials management was discussed, along with materials management as an investment and attitude.
In process automation, multivariable control has always been considered an area of specialization and a luxury for those companies with sufficient scale and resources to justify its high costs of ownership.
As a veteran of many capital projects once observed, “All projects execute materials management—those that do so without a plan and the appropriate resources just do it very poorly.”
The hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI) is constantly investing in new technologies to optimize operations.
Petrochemical demand will increase with gross domestic product, while the demand for motor fuels will only show modest growth and may even decline in certain regions, given environmental/legislative pressures and the introduction of battery-powered electric vehicles.
Studies have been conducted on strategies for bunker fuel oil (BFO) production with reduced sulfur and catalytic fines concentration limits.
It has been a long time since I graduated with my engineering degrees, but I feel qualified to discuss them after many years in industry.