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Direct-coupled cyclone and feed injection

RJ Glendinning and HL McQuiston ABB Lummus Global

1996 / Q4

Retrofitting key technology elements in vintage FCC units can bring many of the economic benefits associated with the use of advanced technologies.  Commercial operating data demonstrate the yield benefits achieved with Lummus direct-couples cyclone and feed injection methods, plus fast payback.
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Solvent deasphalting and gasification to reduce fuel oil

H David Sloan, Howard J Simons and David J Bosworth MW Kellog
John Griffiths Jacobs Engineering

1996 / Q4

The authors describe the technology and economics of the way a refinery with a bisbreaker unit can reduce production of heavy fuel oil.
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High olefins feedstocks in stream reformers

F Giacobbe, O Loiacono, G Iaquaniello, F Vinci, Kinetics Technology International (KTI) SpA

1996 / Q4

Feedstocks for catalytic steam reforming include a wide group of streams,  from natural gas to LPG, naphtha and refinery offgas.  Their uses call for ever greater quantitites of unsaturated compounds to be treated.  This article shows how feedstocks being steam reformed has solved the problem.
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Removal of trace H2S and COS from liquid streams

Mark Doran and Dave Harpham, ICI Katalco

1996 / Q4

Non-regenerable absorbents are being used increasingly in refineries to remove small levels of sulphur impurities, such as copper strip corrosion.  Factors determining the suitability of such processes, and some operational examples, are presented here.
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Hydrogen effects on cracking catalysts

Hideshi Hattori, Tetsuya Shishido, Kentaro Higo, Junpei Tsuji, Takahiro Nagase, Center for Advanced Research of Energy Technology (CARET), Hokkaido Univery

1996 / Q4

Catalytically active sites for cracking are formed from hydrogen molecules, suggesting that when hydrogen is present in a reaction mixture it affects not only hydrogenation/dehydrogenation but also acid-catalysed cracking reaction.
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Waste organic coprocessing with coal/oil and recycling

V R Pradhan, A G Comolli, L K Lee, G Popper, Hydrocarbon Technologies Inc

1996 / Q4

A new technology has been developed for the combined processing of organic wastes, using feedstocks such as coal and petroleum residue.  It enables clean transportation fuels and value-added chemicals to be produced economically and in an environmentally benign manner.
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Aluminised steels for sulphidation corrosion resistance

George T Bayer and Kim A Wynns, Alon Processing Inc

1996 / Q4

Steel tubing, piping, and vessels aluminised by the pack cementation process can give enhanced performance and service lifetimes through increased resistance to high-temperature sulphidation in a variety of hydrocarbon processing operations, claim the authors.
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Economics of process analyser applications

Derek Benke and Frank Rutzen, Benke Instrument & Elektro GmbH
Alfred Rother, Verba Oel AG

1996 / Q4

Data in this article are based on European conditions at the beginning of 1996 for refineries with a distillation capacity of about 5 million tons/year.
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Combustion science: a contradiction in terms?

Barrie Jenkins and Mike Boothman, Fuel & Combustion Technology Int. Ltd and Conoco Ltd, Humber Refinery

1996 / Q4

A coker heater at Conoco's Humber refinery in the UK was limiting production.  Some of its tubes were coking up and there were frequent shutdowns for decoking, with loss of production.  An assessment of the causes was required.
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Heat exchange design to improve profits

Tim Fox and Vishwas Wadekar, Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Service (HTFS)

1996 / Q4

Heat exchange design calculations can have a direct impact on company profits in today's technically demanding and margin-conscious downstream industries.  The way to increase cost-effectiveness in thermal equipment sizing, say the authors, is a research-based approach to method development.
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Heat transfer enhancement in solvent extraction plants

Ian Gibbard and Doug Storey, Cal Gavin Process Intensification Engineering

1996 / Q4

Increasingly, designers are using heat transfer enhancement at the conceptual design stages of a project to give themselves more flexibility, substantial cost savings and the prospect of much longer sustainable performance.
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Electric heat tracing optimisation

Mitch Todd, Dustry Brown, Gerald B Dixon, Nelson Heat Tracing Systems.

1996 / Q4

Electrical heat tracing system costs range from $50 to over $325/metre of pipe, depending on pipe size design parameters. Heat tracing cable represents only about one third of total system cost. Heat tracing system costs can be minimised by prudent system design and product selection.

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The vinylchloride monomer process

Ingolf Mielke, Hoechst AG

1996 / Q4

The growing demand for polyvinylchloride (PVC) and its raw material vinychloride monomer (VCM) means expansion of capacity in the coming years.  New plants will need to have low capital and operating costs and be aware of environmental issues.
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Petrochemical industry in the former Soviet Union

Mikhail G Rudin, Raytheon Engineers and Constructors Inc.

1996 / Q4

The petrochemical industry in the Soviet Union started in the mid 1930s.  Until then, production had been based on coal coke processing and on feed of alimentary origin.  This article reviews its history and the current situation.
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