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| Troubleshooting crude column constraints |
Jill Borwn Burns, Kristen Becht and Brandt Mueller, Valero Energy |
2017 / Q3 |
Multiple limitations to operating capacity were identified and resolved during a column turnaround
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| Olefins and butanes to gasoline |
Arvids Judzis Jr, Romain Lemoine, Jackie Medina and Stephen D Williams, CB&I |
2017 / Q3 |
Increasing alkylation capacity to process readily available olefins can be an opportunity to add value to refinery operations
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| Optimising the health of rotating equipment |
Martin Turk, Schneider Electric |
2017 / Q3 |
Applying predictive analytics to rotating equipment enables a preventative maintenance programme for improved savings
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| APC in a mild hydrocracker fractionator |
Arnold Kleine Buning, Bayernoil
Stephen Finlayson, AMT
Y Zak Friedman, Petrocontrol |
2017 / Q3 |
Advanced proces control of a mild hydrocracker can save millions of dollars annually by maximising kerosene and/or diesel
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| Crude fingerprinting and predictive analytics |
Conrad Teran, GE Water & Process Technologies |
2017 / Q3 |
Predictive modelling technology has been developed to predict the behavioural characteristics of crude oils and their blends
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| Higher margin from the bottom of the barrel |
Victor Scalco, General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems |
2017 / Q3 |
Treating slurry oil in an electrostatic precipitator helps Indian refiners to increase production and profits and reduce environmental impact when processing
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| Best practice desalting Part 1: crude flexibility window |
Brad Mason, Nalco Champion |
2017 / Q3 |
A replacement programme of desalter treatment chemistry transformed the operation of crude units struggling to meet performance targets
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| Leveraging hydrocracking to upgrade low value streams |
Adrienne Van Kooperen, Criterion Catalysts & Technologies/Zeolyst International |
2017 / Q3 |
Flexible design of hydrocracking catalyst systems enables maximum conversion of lower value feed streams into more valuable liquid products
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| FCC product fractionation for maximum LCO |
Phillip Niccum, William McDaniel and Howard Pollicoff, KP Engineering |
2017 / Q3 |
For increased production of diesel over gasoline, maximising recovery of LCO from the FC reactor can be part of the scheme
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| Modelling the processing of gasifier feed |
Ankit A Jain and Ajay Gupta, Reliance Industries Limited |
2017 / Q3 |
Inlet particle size distribution is crucial to the performance of a gasifier. A simulation exercise determines the performance of a rod mill processing gasifier feed
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| Improving FCC unit profitability |
Stelios Kyriakou, Costas Plellis-Tsaltakis and Dimitrios Gkanis, Hellenic Petroleum SA
Emmanuel Smaragdis, Matthias Scherer and Daniel McQueen, W R Grace |
2017 / Q3 |
Upgrading the FCC catalyst and additive system enabled a refiner to increase olefins production with lower bottoms to coke and no increase in dry gas
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| Controlling the hydrocarbon dew point of pipeline gas |
Saeid Mokhatab, Gas Processing Consultant
Scott Northrop, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
Michael Mitariten, Air Liquide |
2017 / Q3 |
A key factor in selecting technology to control the hydrocarbon dew point of natural gas is the quantity of heavy hydrocarbons in the feed stream
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| Modelling catalytic naphtha reforming |
Reza Seif Mohaddecy and Sepehr Sadighi, Research Institute of Petroleum Industry
Ershad Amini, University of Tehran |
2017 / Q3 |
A data handling modelling approach is applied to predict the output performance of a heavy naphtha catalytic reforming unit
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