Process Consulting Service engineers have published more than 100 technical articles for NPRA Annual Meeting, Petroleum Technology Quarterly, Hydrocarbon Processing, Oil and Gas Journal, Hydrocarbon Engineering, Chemical Engineering Progress and World Refining. A small selection is included here.
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General Process |
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Catalyst changes, downstream improvements increase FCC propylene yields |
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Understanding centrifugal compressor performance in a connected process system |
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Why vacuum unit fired heaters coke |
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Refiners processing heavy crudes can experience crude distillation problems |
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Pump cavitation caused by entrained gas |
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Understanding unit pressure balance key to cost-effective FCC revamps |
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Crude unit start-up: consequences of high liquid level |
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Vacuum unit revamps |
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Diagnose flooding columns efficiently |
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Revamps |
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Crude unit revamp increases diesel yield |
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Low capital revamp increases vacuum gas oil yield |
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Consider comprehensive CPD efforts to cut costs |
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Low-capital crude unit revamp increases product yield |
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Optimize revamp projects with a logic-based approach |
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Revamp improves FCC performance at BP's Texas City refinery |
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Keeping down the cost of revamp investment |
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Revamp improves asphalt yield in Georgia refinery |
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Consider retrofits to handle high-viscosity crudes |