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| Towards a zero gasoline production refinery: part 1 |
Blasis Stamateris, Foster Wheeler |
2013 / Q3 |
Integrating products from the steam cracker, aromatics complex and FCC unit to produce petrochemicals without gasoline may offer more attractive margins
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| Refinery power failures: causes, costs and solutions |
Patrick J Christensen, William H Graf and Thmas W Yeung, Hydrocarbon Publishing Company |
2013 / Q3 |
Power outages typically lead to damaging costs for refiners. Strategies are needed to minimise them.
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| Combating green oil formation in a CCR reformer |
Osman Kubilay Karan, Mehmet Asim Ay, Koray kahraman, Tupras Kirikkale Refinery
Arnaud Selmen, Axens Technology & Technical Services |
2013 / Q3 |
The addition of a chloride adsorber guard bed solved a refiner's issues with contamination affecting a CCR reformer's rich gas compressor
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| Role of fired heater safety systems |
Nikki Bishop and David Sheppard, Emerson Process Management |
2013 / Q3 |
A fully automated burner management system operating as a SIS burner control can meet minimum safety targets, improve system availability and lower costs
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| Manufacturing execution systems for the refining industry |
Marty Moran, AspenTech |
2013 / Q3 |
Real-time data and decision support tools provide access to plant information to enable a timely response to production issues
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| Advances in engineering and design technologies |
Simon Bennett, Aveva |
2013 / Q3 |
3D technology is moving out of the design office to transform the entire asset lifecycle
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| A novel approach to cleaning furnace coils |
Rupali Sahu, Shyam Kishore Choudhary, Ugrasen Yadav and M K E Prasad, Technip KT India |
2013 / Q3 |
A modified pigging operation aims to greatly reduce the time required for coke removal from furnace coils
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| Extending gasification runtime with antifoulant |
Berthold Otzisk, Kurita Europe |
2013 / Q3 |
When fouling is observed in the syngas cooler, an antifoulant programme can provide a gasification unit with an extended runtime.
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| Improving reliability and efficiency in centrifugal pumps |
Geoff Lewis, DuPont |
2013 / Q3 |
Conversion of metal pump wear parts to advanced composite materials can lead to substantial annual cost savings
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| Oil sands-derived feed processing |
Max Ovchinnikov, Josiane Ginestra, Dorian Rauschning, Bill Gillespie and Kevin Carlson, Criterion Catalysts & Technologies. |
2013 / Q3 |
Processing crudes derived from oil sands requires a good understanding of the facility, and of the sources and processing requirements of the available crudes.
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| Predicting catalyst liftime |
S Reza Seif Mohaddecy, Sepdhr Sadighi, RIPI |
2013 / Q3 |
A simulation model compares accurately with actual operating data to provide reliable predictions of catalyst lifetime in naptha reforming
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| Additives provide flexibility for FCC units and delayed cokers |
Alan Kramer and Raul Arriaga, Albemarle Corporation |
2013 / Q3 |
A proprietary additivie applied to a novel coker process increases the liquid yield from delayed coking
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| Preventing ingress of HCN into amine systems |
Ralph Weiland, Nathan Hatcher and Clayton Jones, Optimized Gas Treating Inc |
2013 / Q3 |
Simulation studies provide guidelines on how to avoid contamination of refinery amine systems by hydrogen cyanide
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| Optimised hydrogen production by steam reforming: part 2 |
Kedar Patwardhan, Sanke Rajyalakshmi and P Balaramakrishna, Larsen & Toubro |
2013 / Q3 |
Emerging technologies for hydrogen production from steam reforming are modelled.
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| Corrosion control with high-acid crudes |
India Naghi-Hanspal, Mahesh Subramaniyam and Parag Shah, Dorf Ketal Chemicals |
2013 / Q3 |
Appropriate corrosion control strategies help refineries to profit from discounted high-acid crudes
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| Chemical analysis in amine system operations |
Scott Waite, Arthur Cummings and Glen Smith, MPR Services |
2013 / Q3 |
The array of contaminants that can disrupt the operation of alkanolamine systems needs to be precisely characterised and analysed. This digital version of the article includes the extensive table providing a 'reconciliation of analytical methods and their reports' referenced in the print edition.
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