The September issue of Hydrocarbon Engineering magazine will take a special look at Heavy Crude Processing, and includes articles from both Nalco Champion and Baker Hughes.
Other features include Catalyst Recovery, Flow Metering, Flaring Technology, Corrosion and Heat Exchangers. The 15 facts at the end of the issue focuses on the AFPM. You can also read latest news, technical and analytical information for the downstream oil and gas processing in this issue.
FEATURES
World News
Contract awards, project updates, industry latest, news digest, diary dates, mergers and acquisitions
In the limelight
The Russian oil industry’s return to centre stage
Seize the opportunity
Proven technologies to help refiners safely process more heavy crudes
Lightening the solid load
How to overcome the processing challenges related to high solids laden crudes
The flange protection challenge
Corrosion protection for flanges, fastenings and associated pipes
Corrosion inhibition
The use of corrosion inhibitors in open cooling water systems using desalinated water
Retrofitting for lower emissions
The use of compact design burner technology in order to achieve challenging emissions levels
Driving refinery change: Part two
The search for alternative and sustainable fuel sources in part two of Linde’s emissions monitoring series
Key advantage
How to enhance platinum group metals and rhenium returns from spent hydrocarbon and petrochemical process catalysts
Value added
How fluid catalytic cracking unit performance and profitability can be enhanced through value added technical support
Additives for low severity FCC operations
The development of SOx additives specifically suited for FCC units operating at low severity
Opportunity needn’t cost
Vivek Srinivasan, Parag Shah, P.N. Ramaswamy, John Sigmon, David Comer, and Mahesh Subramaniyam, Dorf Ketal Chemicals, USA, describe chemical additives that can help refiners overcome the problems inherent with opportunity crudes in order to profitably exploit their advantageous prices
The petrochemistry of paraxylene
How paraxylene manufacturing can be made more efficient by understanding the basics of the process
Non-invasive metering solutions
The use of ultrasonic flow meters in storage terminals
Heat tracing design
Heating cable designs for industrial process control
Data collection methods
Ventyx outline the benefits of automating field process data collection
Optimised ship loading
The optimisation of planning, loading, inventory management and administration
15 facts
This week we give you 15 facts on the AFPM
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Hydrocarbon Engineering is leading source of technical and analytical information for the downstream oil and gas processing sector. It provides a blend of well researched international reports, regional forecasts, technical articles and case studies, and including the annual “World Review”, and “Engineering Contractor’s Overview” features.