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HP Impact: US demand for water treatment chemicals

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Thinnes, Billy

Demand for water treatment chemicals in the US is forecast to rise 3.2% per year to $6.7 billion in 2017. Gains will reflect not only healthy growth in the oil, gas and mining industries and a rebound..

HP Innovations

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Blume, Adrienne

Burner management system ideal for retrofitsPrincipal Technology Inc. offers a modern burner management system (BMS) (Fig. 1) specifically designed for the retrofit of legacy boilers, ovens, furnaces ..

HP Reliability: Leaders must allocate time for technology updates

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

Just as a good medical doctor is expected to have wide knowledge on modern treatment options, we would expect reliability professionals to be equally informed on technology advances. There are numerou..

HP Water Management: The case for change

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

When should you change water-treatment suppliers? After a failure? When you are dissatisfied with the quality or price of your incumbent supplier? When you receive an attractively-priced proposal? Whe..

HP Construction Profile: US Midwest refinery nears completion of major modernization project

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Romanow, Stephany

In early July 2013, BP announced that it has completed the commissioning and startup of a new, 250,000-bpd crude distillation unit at the Whiting refinery, marking a major achievement in the multi-bil..

Improve pressure drop calculations for saturated water lines

When saturated water flows through pipes and components, it flashes—thus increasing its specific volume and limiting the fluid flowrate. Due to these conditions, the calculation and design for pi..

HP Boxscore Construction Analysis: Outlook for major revamp projects—Part 2

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

Worldwide, refiners are investing billions in upgrading and modernizing projects. These efforts are focused on:Increasing flexibility to process heavier, sourer crudesImproving energy efficiencyMeetin..

The future of automation has arrived

Invensys Operations Management: Turk, M. A.  |  Clark, D. C.

As automation moves into asset optimization, it spans all elements of operations and can run your process as a business.

Are you using pinch technology effectively in your daily operations?—Part 2

KBC Process Technology Ltd.: Milosevic, Z.  |  Rudman, A.  |  Brown, R.

In Part 1, the basic principle of pinch technology and applications were presented. Pinch technology is a valuable tool in the design of greenfield HPI facilities. More importantly, such tools provide..

HP Boxscore Construction Analysis: Outlook for major revamp projects—Part 1

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

Worldwide, refiners are investing billions in upgrading and modernization projects. These efforts are focused on:Increasing flexibility to process heavier, sourer crudesImproving energy efficiencyMeet..