Environment & Safety Gas Processing/LNG Maintenance & Reliability Petrochemicals Process Control Process Optimization Project Management Refining

Utilities

HP Innovations

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Blume, Adrienne

EGC Critical Components has announced its dures brand of materials, a new family of proprietary thermoplastic polymer composites developed specifically for the manufacture of bushings, bearings and wear rings in pumps handling a wide range of liquids, including those that contain solid matter.

HP Innovations

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Blume, Adrienne

New valve offers zero leakagePentair Valves and Controls has expanded its Vanessa triple offset valves (TOVs) product line with the launch of the Series 30-RS.

HP News

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Rhodes, Mike

Russian blending facility utilizes advanced control technologyLUKOIL’s Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez gasoline blending facility in Kstovo, Russia, will integrate Honeywell software, which is designed ..

HP News

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Rhodes, Mike

Recent news events in the global HPI.

HP Innovations

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Blume, Adrienne

Air Liquide will build the world’s largest air separation unit (ASU) in Secunda, South Africa. An essential component of the 5,000-metric-ton-per-day ASU will be the AIRMAX compressor solution from MAN Diesel and Turbo, which will be the largest-dimension compressor constructed to date.

HP Free Literature

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Video on long-life oxygen sensing innovation City Technology, a Honeywell company, has released a new video on how innovations and advanced technologies in long-life oxygen sensing are meeting key mar..

The Middle East’s strategic expansion of refined products exports

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Rhodes, Mike

Already a leader in crude oil exports, the Middle East is making a deliberate move to increase its participation in the refined and petrochemical products markets. It is likely that the ME will continue to add downstream projects. Refining capacity will center on domestic demand and export opportunities to Asia-Pacific and Europe.

HP Innovations

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Blume, Adrienne

A joint industry project (JIP) has been launched between Swagelining Ltd., Saudi Aramco and The Welding Institute (TWI) to conduct investigations into the use of polymer lining in carbon steel (CS) pipelines.

Improve the operation of fired heaters

S & B Engineers and Constructors Ltd.: Malhotra, K.

Fired heaters or “process furnaces” are used extensively by the refining and petrochemical industries. These heat transfer units generate the much needed process energy through the combustio..

HP Engineering Case Histories: Case 83: What are useful questions to ask before starting a vibration analysis?

Consulting Engineer: Sofronas, A.

Periodically, this author receives questions from readers throughout the world addressing what performance issues could be wrong with a centrifugal compressor that is vibrating. Note: It is impossible..