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Hydrocarbon Processing - May 2013

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:46:31 -0400

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - May 2013
- Contents
- Industry Perspectives
- Brief
- Impact
- Associations
- Reliability
- Integration Strategies
- Boxscore Construction Analysis
- Viewpoint
- Avoid hidden costs of suction-specific speed in pumping
- Rerating rotating equipment optimizes olefins plant performance
- Maximize steam unit performance with precise torque monitor
- Investigate power limitations in a large steam turbine
- Seal safety may require going beyond typical standards
- Prevent methane hydrate formation in natural gas valves
- Consider both actual and virtual spare parts inventory
- Improve design for pump suction nozzles
- Consider novel CGC and front-end depropanizer system for olefins production
- Enhance operation and reliability of dividing-wall columns
- Overflow systems are the last line of defense
- Terminals and storage news
- Optimize vacuum ejector operations
- Flare header failure: An investigation
- Marketplace
- Advertiser index
- Engineering Case Histories

Hydrocarbon Processing - April 2013

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:11:02 -0400

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - April 2013
- Contents
- Industry Perspectives
- Brief
- Impact
- Innovations
- Reliability
- Integration Strategies
- Boxscore Construction Analysis
- Shale energy resources driving resurgence for ethylene industry
- North American olefin producers riding the shale gas wave
- Use model-based temperature control for fixed-bed reactors
- High-pressure polyethylene: Reemergence as a specialty chemical or not?
- New vs. debottlenecking projects for the hydrocarbon processing industry
- Evaluate challenges in meeting clean-fuel specifications with heavier crude
- Improve coker efficiency with reliable valve automation
- Optimize value from FCC bottoms
- Take a quicker approach to staggered blowdown
- Select the right shaft-riding brushes for turbomachinery
- Overcome barriers to proper planning and scheduling
- Conceptually, accidents are a fallacy
- Marketplace
- Advertiser Index
- Water Management

Hydrocarbon Processing - March 2013

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:27:26 -0500

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - March 2013
- Contents
- Industry Perspectives
- Brief
- Impact
- Innovations
- Reliability
- Integration Strategies
- Boxscore Construction Analysis
- Viewpoint
- Monitor and minimize corrosion in high-TAN crude processing
- Mitigate reactor failures due to graphitization
- Consider dewpoint corrosion in reactor design
- Corrosion under insulation is a hidden problem
- Process safety management: Going beyond functional safety
- Operator response to alarms is an important protection layer
- Key aspects of design and operational safety in offsite storage terminals
- Optimize feed treatment for polypropylene process
- Catalyst news
- Improve benzene control
- FCC catalyst design evolves to maximize propylene
- Marketplace
- Advertiser index
- Engineering Case Histories

Hydrocarbon Processing - February 2013

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 15:09:18 -0500

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - February 2013
- Contents
- Industry Perspectives
- Brief
- Impact
- Innovations
- Reliability
- Integration Strategies
- Boxscore Construction Analysis
- Viewpoint
- Discover what opportunities the Eastern Mediterranean holds for you
- Refinery optimization: Closing the gap between planned and actual performance
- New residue-upgrading complex achieves Euro 5 specifications
- Operator training simulators for brownfield process units offer many benefits
- How to choose a refiner for your precious metals catalyst
- Select new production strategies for FCC light cycle oil
- Use an innovative cracking catalyst to upgrade residue feedstock
- The next generation of interfaces for engineering software
- Consider advanced technology to remove benzene from gasoline blending pool
- Improve the performance of your existing steam system
- Venice’s biorefinery: How refining overcapacity can become an opportunity with an innovative idea
- Marketplace
- Advertiser index
- Automation Safety

Hydrocarbon Processing - January 2013

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 17:31:46 -0500

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - January 2013
- Contents
- Industry Perspectives
- Brief
- Impact
- Innovations
- Associations
- Reliability
- Integration Strategies
- Boxscore Construction Analysis
- Viewpoint
- Water Management
- Optimize LNG boil-off gas systems for regasification terminals
- Viability of GTL for the North American gas market
- Molecular sieves in gas processing: Effects and consequences by contaminants
- Improve evaluation of brittle-fracture resistance for vessels
- Update on wet and gas compressor seals
- Evaluate pressure relief system forces in existing installations
- Improve your plantwide steam network
- Refiners now have a new biofuel option
- Marketplace
- Advertiser index

Hydrocarbon Processing - December 2012

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 16:18:05 -0500

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - December 2012
- Contents
- 2013 Editorial Calendar
- Brief
- Impact
- HPI Market Data 2013 Executive Summary
- Innovations
- Associations
- Construction
- Construction Boxscore Update
- Reliability
- Control
- How do innovations and best practices transform process engineering?
- Intelligent indexing is key to 3D CAD plant modeling
- Consider coal gasification for liquid fuels production
- Consider ‘lean’ engineering to fast-track mega projects
- South America: Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela
- Europe: Germany, United Kingdom
- Asia: China, India, Japan
- Reliability and maintenance: The path to world-class performance
- Improve integration opportunities for aromatics units—Part 2
- Marketplace
- Advertiser index
- Editorial

Hydrocarbon Processing - November 2012

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 13:45:08 -0400

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - November 2012
- Contents
- Industry Perspectives
- Brief
- Impact
- Innovations
- Construction
- Construction Boxscore Update
- Reliability
- Integration Strategies
- Engineering Case Histories
- Viewpoint
- Relief valve and flare action items: What plant engineers should know
- Surviving and thriving in the era of enhanced OSHA PSM audits
- Keep it simple: Three key elements to fighting complex flammable liquid fires
- Update on the greenhouse gas regulation by the US EPA
- Consider new technologies to increase diesel yield from bottom-of-the-barrel products
- Low-pressure absorption of CO2 from flue gas: Plant economics with incentives
- Improve integration opportunities for aromatics units—Part 1
- How do project management practices guide turnaround execution?
- Marketplace
- Advertiser index
- Control

Hydrocarbon Processing - October 2012

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:16:45 -0400

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - October 2012
- Contents
- Brief
- Impact
- Innovations
- Construction
- Construction Boxscore Udpate
- Reliability
- Integration Strategies
- Update hydrocracking reactor controls for improved reliability
- Use a systematized approach of good practices in pygas hydrogenation via APC
- Why don’t we properly train control engineers?
- Consider automated fault detection systems to improve facility reliability
- Optimize desulfurization of gasoline via advanced process control techniques
- Maximize diesel production in an FCC-centered refinery, Part 2
- Optimize sulfur recovery from dilute H2S sources
- Identify and control excess air from process heaters
- Apply new pump-drive software to test performance
- Marketplace
- Advertiser Index
- Water Management

Hydrocarbon Processing - September 2012

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 13:05:52 -0400

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - September 2012
- Contents
- Industry Perspectives
- Brief
- Insight
- Impact
- Construction
- Construction Boxscore Update
- Reliability
- Engineering Case Histories
- Viewpoint
- Maximize diesel production in an FCC-centered refinery, Part 1
- Redefining reforming catalyst performance: High selectivity and stability
- Upgrade heavy oil more cost-efficiently
- CO2 capture from SMRs: A demonstration project
- Increase FCC processing flexibility with improved catalyst recycling methods
- Bio-isobutanol: The next-generation biofuel
- Successful fouling control hinges on effective monitoring
- What are the benefits of rigorous modeling in heat exchanger design?
- Prevent external corrosion of boiler tubes under refractory lining
- What you don’t know can hurt you
- Engineering and construction news
- Marketplace
- Advertiser index
- Automation Safety

Hydrocarbon Processing - August 2012

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 11:18:24 -0400

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - August 2012
- Contents
- Brief
- Insight
- Impact
- Innovations
- Construction
- Construction Profile
- Construction Boxscore Update
- Reliability
- Integration Strategies
- Modernize your compressor lube- and seal-oil systems
- Utility piping: Why over-engineering is inefficient
- Consider new developments for variable-speed electric motors
- Improve performance monitoring of your turbomachinery
- Case history: Improve refrigeration compressor performance
- Apply new guidelines when selecting low-temperature service compressors
- Fire incident at Jalpur was a wakeup call
- Safety news
- Use dynamic simulation for advanced LNG plant design
- PERU LNG: Executing Peru’s largest industrial project
- The premier event for the global natural gas industry
- Marketplace
- Advertiser index
- Control

Hydrocarbon Processing - July 2012

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 16:41:22 -0400

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - July 2012
- Contents
- Brief
- Impact
- Associations
- Construcion
- Construction Boxscore Update
- Reliability
- Engineering Case Histories
- Catalyst developments: The last 90 years
- LNG and GTL drive 50 years of technology evolution in the gas industry
- A portrait of process safety: From its start to present day
- Impact of advanced engineering and design software on the HPI
- Process control in the HPI: A not-so-sentimental journey
- Benchmark oil, gas prices poised for divorce
- The psychology of energy pricing: A look at market behavior during oil shocks
- The military and the hydrocarbon: A love affair of over 100 years
- Qatar LNG: Mega-trains and major ambitions
- Largest ethane cracker: Borouge’s Ruwais manufacturing complex
- Largest hydrocracker in China
- HPI major events and trends, 1920s to present
- A closer look at the HPI: 1901 to present
- Marketplace
- Advertiser index
- Water Management

Hydrocarbon Processing Software Resource and Solutions Guide 2012

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:07:21 -0400

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- Hydrocarbon Processing Software Resource and Solutions Guide 2012
- Table of Contents
- Asset Management
- Budgeting, Capital Allocation and Planning
- Business Integration
- Exploration
- Field and Data Capture
- Regulatory Compliance
- Risk Management
- Training
- Alarm Management
- Energy Management
- Enterprise Operations Management
- Fluid Flow Analysis
- Online Monitoring and Optimization
- Operations
- Planning, Scheduling and Blending
- Plant Lifecycle and Performance Monitoring
- Predictive Maintenance and Repair
- Process Solutions and Equipment Provider
- Refining, Petrochemical and Gas Processing
- Data Management
- Data Visualization
- Dynamic Simulation and Optimization
- Process Control and Information Systems
- SIS/Safety Systems
- Collaboration and Knowledge Capture
- Design, Construction and Engineering
- Pilot Plant Support
- Process Engineering and Simulation
- Well Log Data Access and Management
- Display Advertisers

Hydrocarbon Processing - June 2012

Fri, 25 May 2012 15:00:43 -0400

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - June 2012
- Table of Contents
- HPIn Brief
- HPInsight
- HPIn Reliability
- HPIntegration Strategies
- Delta Air Lines buys Trainer refinery complex
- Cyber campaign against gas pipelines
- Global oil market reveals myth of energy independence
- Diesel engine demand to exceed $197 billion in 2015
- HPInnovations
- HPIn Construction
- HPIn Construction Boxscore Update
- Use adaptive modeling to revamp and maintain controllers
- Cybersecurity for industrial plants
- Conserve energy for fired heaters
- Recover valuable olefins from offgas streams
- Optimize training using a high-fidelity simulator
- Improve feedstock selection for your refinery
- The Bhopal disaster
- Fine-tune relief calculations for supercritical fluids
- Update on valves used in hydrogen service
- HPI Marketplace
- Advertiser Index
- HPIn Water Management

Hydrocarbon Processing - May 2012

Wed, 02 May 2012 15:23:35 -0400

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - May 2012
- Contents
- HPIN Brief
- HPIN Reliability
- HPINtegration Strategies
- HPIN Associations
- HPIN Associations
- China hungry for thermoplastics
- Major increase in Alberta oil sands employment
- Industrial valve market growing
- Society urges GHS compliance
- HPInnovations
- HPIN Construction
- HPIN Construction Boxscore Update
- Consider updating your lubricant system
- Improve seal designs for ‘dirty’ services
- When good pumps turn bad
- Who should you call to repair your process pump?
- 2012 Petrochemical Outlook: Middle East and United States
- Control moisture problems in slurry-based polyolefin operations
- Severe jet fires and vapor explosions
- Control DEA corrosion in a gas refinery
- Maximize FCC main air blower and wet gas compressor capacity
- What are the corrosion issues for gasohol?
- HPI Marketplace
- Advertiser Index
- Engineering Case Histories

Hydrocarbon Processing - April 2012

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 12:38:57 -0400

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - April 2012
- Contents
- HPIN Brief
- HPInsights
- HPIN Reliability
- HPIntegration Strategies
- Energy for economic growth
- Medium-voltage AC drives surge, thanks to energy market
- Canadian oil sands alliance
- Polyurethane news from Riyadh
- HPInnovations
- HPIN Construction
- HPIN Construction Profile
- HPI Construction Boxscore Update
- Optimize olefin operations
- Alternate feedstock options for petrochemicals: A roadmap
- Improve catalyst management at the FCC unit
- Operational optimization for mixed-refrigerant systems
- Consider new economics for purification on a small scale
- Use better designed turboexpanders to handle flashing fluids
- Understand multi-stage pumps and sealing options: Part 2
- Perspectives on the 2012 energy industry
- Venting vapor streams: Predicting the outcome
- Apply audits to reexamine safety procedures
- Methanol contamination of naphtha: A case study
- HPI Marketplace
- Advertiser Index
- HPIN Automation Safety

Hydrocarbon Processing - March 2012

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:13:13 -0500

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - March 2012
- Contents
- HPIN Brief
- HPInsight
- HPIN Reliability
- BP’s energy outlook to 2030
- Octagonal opportunity for carbon capture
- HPINConstruction
- HPI Construction Boxscore Update
- Reduce CO2 in acid gas from amine-based TGTUs
- Consider a new monitoring system to prevent corrosion
- Avoid stress corrosion cracking of stainless steel
- Operating philosophy can reduce overhead corrosion
- Closed-loop control can clamp down on crude unit corrosion
- Choose a facility configuration based on financial metrics
- Optimize hydrogen management for distillate production
- Executive leadership–Essential to ensure world-class turnarounds
- Achieve optimal heat recovery in a kettle exchanger
- Advanced process control: A historical perspective
- Case 67: Extruder blowback
- HPI Marketplace
- Advertiser Index
- HPIN Water

Hydrocarbon Processing - February 2012

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:49:22 -0500

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - February 2012
- Table of Contents
- HP in Brief
- HP Insight
- HP in Reliability
- HP Integration Strategies
- Bio-based polymers could be next big thing
- European pipeline performance
- HP in Innovations
- HP in Construction
- HPI Construction Boxscore Update
- Viewpoint
- Consider total value when optimizing catalytic cracking units
- Increase energy efficiency for your refinery
- Use advanced catalysts to improve xylenes isomerization
- Improve diesel quality through advanced hydroprocessing
- Debottleneck crude-unit preheat exchanger network inefficiencies
- Eliminate cavitation in your piping systems
- Understand multi-stage pumps and sealing options: Part 1
- Treat oily waste with decanter centrifuge plants
- HPI Marketplace
- Advertiser Index
- HP in Control

Hydrocarbon Processing - January 2012

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:54:22 -0500

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - January 2012
- Contents
- HPIN Brief
- HPInsight Global HPI: 90+ years old and still going strong
- HPIN Reliability Dealing with asset management and life extension
- HPIntegration Strategies Inline blending can help process plants cut costs and reduce quality give-away
- HPIN Associations Making safety second nature
- A radically different transport sector by 2050
- China dominates the nylon engineering plastics market
- New policies needed to scale up renewable energy
- Bioplastics demand to exceed 1 million metric tons in 2015
- Cloudy outlook
- HPI 2012 Forecast
- HPIN Innovations
- HPIN Construction
- HPI Construction Boxscore Update
- Viewpoint
- Overcome challenges in treating shale gases
- Innovative APC boosts LNG train production
- Apply new enhanced tubes to optimize heat transfer in LNG trains
- Select optimal schemes for gas processing plants
- Improve process control for natural gas heat exchangers
- Consider lobe blowers combined with compressors
- Are you losing money when tuning controllers?
- How to manage vaporization in an analytical system
- Case history: Replacement of existing pressure vessel
- HPI Marketplace
- Advertiser Index
- Engineering Case Histories Case 66: Fiberglass mixing tank flexing vibration

Hydrocarbon Processing - December 2011

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:26:53 -0500

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - December 2011
- HPIN Brief
- HPIN Reliability
- HPINtegration Strategies
- US investment in GHG mitigation technologies
- US welding equipment demand to exceed $7 billion
- Saudi petrochemical executives host meeting with senior Chinese official
- HPI Market Data 2012 Executive Summary
- HPIN Innovations
- HPIN Construction
- HPIN Construction Boxscore Update
- Optimize capacity for large ethylene oxide reactors
- Selecting the right steam methane reformer: Can vs. box design
- Investment roadmap: Planning for carbon capture and storage
- Knowledge transfer: A primer for major capital projects
- Manage risks with dividing-wall column installations
- Preserving knowledge: Keys to effective lifecycle management
- Consider these guides for stress relieving of vertical towers
- Proper relief-valve sizing requires equation mastery
- Enhancing pump design
- Onsite water services help refinery go from idle to online
- HPIN Marketplace
- Advertisers Index
- HPIN Automation Safety

Hydrocarbon Processing - November 2011

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:01:03 -0400

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - November 2011
- Table of Contents
- HPIN Brief
- HP In Reliability
- HP Integration Strategies
- EU chemical production grows ever so slowly
- World demand for water treatment products approaches $65 billion
- Shale gas boom helpful to North American chemical producers
- The quest for a common integration technology
- HPIN Construction
- HPI Construction Boxscore Update
- The evolution of safety in the oil and gas industry
- Mitigate refinery influent water supply contamination
- Tips on communicating LOPA results to management
- Spent caustic management: Remediation review
- Automated decoking solves coker safety challenges
- Pilot-operated safety relief valves: A simple, effective plant upgrade
- Relief device inlet piping: Beyond the 3 percent rule
- North American Turnaround and Maintenance 2011
- Improve material balance in high-purity distillation control
- Safety instrumented function design reduces nuisance trips
- HP In Water Management
- Investigation: Failure of a steam generator
- Case 65: Taking risks and making high-level presentations
- HPI Marketplace
- Advertiser Index

Hydrocarbon Processing - October 2011

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 12:15:57 -0400

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - October 2011
- Contents
- HPIN Brief
- HPIN Reliability
- HPIN Europe
- HPIntegration Strategies
- European refiners’ safety performance in 2010
- Libya at a glance
- EU Parliament seeks stricter greenhouse gas rules
- HPIN Innovations
- HPIN Construction
- HPI Construction Boxscore Update
- Intelligent severity optimization project pays off in two months
- Fine-tune diesel hydrotreating operations
- Process gas chromatography: Avoid the iceberg of hidden expenses
- Find benefits in automating boiler systems
- Consider model-based inferential properties for reformers
- Refinery configurations: Designs for heavy oil
- Improve material balance by using proper flowmeter corrections
- HPI Marketplace
- Advertiser Index
- HPIN Control

Hydrocarbon Processing - September 2011

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 09:47:11 -0400

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - September 2011
- Contents
- HPIN Brief
- HPIN Reliability
- HPIN Integration Strategies
- HPIN Associations
- Rare earths and lubricant demand to grow worldwide
- New requirements could raise the cost of gas and shutter US refineries
- Tesoro releases report on Anacortes explosion
- HPIN Construction
- HPIN Construction Profile
- HPI Construction Boxscore Update
- Understand differences between thermal and hydrocracking
- New era in refining—Keys to sustenance
- Refining outlook: Capacity expansion and rationalization
- Achieve success in gasoline hydrotreating
- Alternative transport fuels: An Indian perspective
- A perspective on China’s refining industry
- Fast track to fuel—getting the right mix
- Consider new processes for clean gasoline and olefins production
- Maximize propylene from your FCC unit
- Investigate processing near-zero-sulfur gasoline
- Optimize compressor configurations for hydrocarbon applications
- Engineering and Construction 2011
- Prevent failures in olefin-cracking operations
- Prevent tank-bottom failure through reliability analysis
- Case 64: Averages can be misleading on service life data
- HPI Marketplace
- Advertiser Index
- HPIN Automation Safety

Hydrocarbon Processing - August 2011

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:50:14 -0400

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - August 2011
- Contents
- HPIn Brief
- HPIn Reliability
- HPIntegration Strategies
- IEA Seeks Closer Alignment with China
- Ranking the World’s Top Places for Oil and Gas Investment
- Europe Looks to US for Guidance on Unconventional Gas Issues
- HPInnovations
- HPIn Construction
- HPI Construction Boxscore Update
- Consider Life-Cycle Costs in Specifying Control Valves
- Avoid Failures with Pump Power-end Upgrades
- Control-Valve Seat Leakage
- Decrease Vibration in Piping with Reciprocating Compressors
- Use a New Calibration Method for Gas Pipelines
- Reevaluate the Activity of your Catalyst System
- Safety, Security and Environment 2011
- Pre-Engineered Solutions Drive Down Advanced Control Costs
- Climate Change 101: Impact on Refiners
- HPI Marketplace
- Advertiser Index
- HPIn Water Management

Software Resource and Solutions Guide 2011

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 08:08:17 -0400

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- Software Resource and Solutions Guide 2011
- Contents
- Asset Management
- Budgeting, Capital Allocation and Planning
- Business Integration
- Exploration
- Field and Data Capture
- Production Accounting
- Regulatory Compliance
- Risk Management
- Training
- Alarm Management
- Energy Management
- Enterprise Operations Management
- Equipment Reliability Database
- Fluid Flow Analysis
- Online Monitoring and Optimization
- Operations
- Planning, Scheduling and Blending
- Plant Lifecycle and Performance Monitoring
- Predictive Maintenance and Repair
- Process Solutions and Equipment Provider
- Refining, Petrochemical and Gas Processing
- Security Services
- Data Management
- Data Visualization
- Dynamic Simulation and Optimization
- Process Control and Information Systems
- SIS/Safety Systems
- Collaboration and Knowledge Capture
- Design, Construction and Engineering
- Laboratory Testing R&D
- Pilot Plant Support
- Process Engineering and Simulation
- Process Hazards Analysis
- Well Log Data Access and Management
- Display Advertisers

Hydrocarbon Processing - July 2011

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:55:25 -0400

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - July 2011
- Contents
- HPIn Brief
- HPIn Reliability
- HPIn Europe
- HPIntegration Strategies
- HPIn Associations
- Canadian Oil Sands in the US Market
- NOx Control Market to Reach $7.6 Billion
- China Overtakes US as Top Energy Consumer
- HPInnovations
- HPIn Construction
- HPI Construction Boxscore Update
- Two-Phase Fluid Cycle Efficiently Recovers Power from FSRUs
- What Are the Benefits from Mass Transfer Rate-Based Simulation?
- Improve Decision-Making for LNG Projects Via an Integrated Technology
- Run Your Pumps Like a Pro
- Seal Off Costly Refinery Leaks
- Rethink Lubrication and Steam Issues on Emergency Equipment
- Prevent Fouling in 1-Butene Storage Vessels
- Use Glycerol to Dehydrate Supercritical Carbon Dioxide
- What is the Outlook for Advanced Control Engineering?
- Case 63: Analyzing Off Resonance Amplitudes
- HPI Marketplace
- Advertiser Index
- HPIn Control
- Software Resource and Solutions Guide 2011

Hydrocarbon Processing - June 2011

Tue, 31 May 2011 13:13:19 -0400

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - June 2011
- Contents
- HPIN Brief
- HPIN Reliability
- HPIntegration Strategies
- Refining Margins Under Pressure to 2015
- Us PVC Producers See Healthy Exports
- Oil and Gas Supports Two Million Jobs in Texas
- HPInnovations
- HPIN Construction
- HPI Construction Boxscore Update
- Why Technology Choice Does Matter
- Pump Rebuilding by Expert Non-OEMS Is Effective
- Put Training Back Into Operator Training Simulators
- Update Your Reliability Performance to Meet Process Safety Expectations
- Rethink Planning and Scheduling’s Role in Refinery Optimization
- Consider Closed–Loop Oil-Mist Lubrication
- Improve Energy Efficiency for Distillate Hydrotreaters Retrofit Options
- Fine-Tune Ethylene Unit Startups
- Valves 2011
- Use Advanced Process Control to Add Value for Your Facility
- Optimize Design for Distillation Feed
- HPI Marketplace
- Advertiser Index
- HPIN Automation Safety

Hydrocarbon Processing - May 2011

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:38:51 -0400

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - May 2011
- Contents
- Hpin Brief
- HPIN Reliability
- HPIN Europe
- HPIN Associations
- HPI Recovery Underway Despite Uncertainty
- Small-Scale Chemistry Could Improve Biodegradable Polymers
- US Auto Industry Could Boost Profits With Higher Mileage Standards
- HPINnovations
- HPIN Construction
- HPI Construction Boxscore Update
- Consider New Developments in Antifouling Coatings for Rotating Equipment
- Deferred Maintenance Causes Upsurge in Pump Failures
- Avoid Costly Engineering Faults, Missteps and Miscalculations
- Nickel Recycle: Extending Service Life for Reformer Tubes
- Consider New Materials for Ethylene Furnace Applications
- Testing and Repair Options for Critical Dry-Gas Seal: Updates
- How to Justify Root-Cause Failure Analysis for Pumps
- Spiral Heat Exchanger in Desalter Service Solves Fouling Issues
- Optimize Reordering of Critical Raw Materials and Parts
- Update on Designing for High-Fouling Liquids
- Is Your Antifoam Compatible With the Amine System?
- Sulfur 2011
- Review Unit-Wide Impacts on Closed-Drain Drums
- Design an Efficient Exchanger Network
- Case 62: Useful Shaft Stress Equations to Remember
- HPI Marketplace
- Advertiser Index
- HPIN Water Management

Hydrocarbon Processing - April 2011

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:27:36 -0400

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - April 2011
- Contents
- HPIN Brief
- HPIN Reliability
- HPIntegration Strategies
- Valero Confirms Purchase of Chevron's Pembroke Refinery and Other Assets
- Natural Gas Enters a New Era of Abundance
- Researches Anticipates Failures in Workplace
- HPInnovations
- HPIN Construction
- HPI Construction Boxscore Update
- Optimize Cracked-Gas Compressors With Smart-Automation Technology
- Improve Evaluations for Your Industrial Gas Needs
- Better Control-Loop Management Lowers Energy Costs
- Accurate Feedstock Selection and Planning Are Critical to Profitability
- Investigation: Failure of a Surface Condenser Titanium Tube
- Consider Becoming More Familiar With the Wet Gas Scrubbing Process
- Low-Pressure Absorption of CO2 From Flue Gas
- Meeting Diesel Specifications at Sustained Production
- Keys to Successful Alarm Management
- Catalyst 2011
- How to Properly Apply a Plant Asset Management Strategy
- How You Can Precommission Process Plants Systematically
- HPI Marketplace
- Advertiser Index
- HPIN Europe

Hydrocarbon Processing - March 2011

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:58:57 -0500

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - March 2011
- Contents
- HPIN Brief
- HPIN Reliability
- HPIN Europe
- HPIntegration Strategies
- HPIN Associations
- Pipeline Safety Bill Introduced in US Senate
- 2010 Midstream M&A Activity Hits $49 Billion
- Association says CFATS Should be Made Permanent
- US Demand for Activated Carbon Growing
- HPIN Construction
- HPI Construction Boxscore Update
- Updates on Improving Refractory Lining Service Life
- Flare Stack Structure Revamp: A Case History
- Avoid Brittle Fracture in Pressure Vessels
- Improving pH Control Mitigates Corrosion in Crude Units
- Turnaround and Maintenance 2010
- Process Safety: Blind Spots and Red Flags
- Consider New Design Criteria Equipment Modules
- Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standard Turns Four: What’s Next?
- Avoid These Top-10 Instrumentation Headaches
- Case 61: Pressure Loss in a Reactor
- HPI Marketplace
- Advertiser Index
- HPIN Water Management

Hydrocarbon Processing - February 2011

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:43:27 -0500

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - February 2011
- Contents
- HPIN Brief
- HPIN Reliability
- HPIntegration Strategies
- Energy Stocks Outperformed Market Indices in 2010
- Team Overcomes Obstacles to Cellulosic Biofuel Production
- HPINnovations
- HPIN Construction
- HPI Construction Boxscore Update
- HPI Viewpoint: Consumer Protection is a Key Issue for E15
- Slurry-Phase Hydrocracking—Possible Solution to Refining Margins
- Convert Bottom-of-the-Barrel into Diesel and Light Olefins
- What are the Future Fungible Transportation Fuels?
- How to Fabricate Reactors for Severe Service
- Designing Atmospheric Crude Distillation for Bitumen Service
- Minimize Carbon Footprint from Claus Tail-Gas Units
- Avoid These Risks Concerning Combustion Control in Fired Heaters
- Circumvent Design Issues When Adding New Hydrotreating Units
- HPI Marketplace
- Advertiser Index
- HPIN Control

Hydrocarbon Processing - January 2011

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:25:59 -0500

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - January 2011
- Contents
- HPIN Brief
- HPIN Reliability
- HPIN Europe
- HPIntegration Strategies
- Refinery and petrochemical construction costs continue measured rise
- Moving beyond the meltdown in the Gulf
- Global energy outlook to 2035
- HPI Market Data 2011 Executive Summary
- HPInnovations
- HPIN Construction
- HPI Construction Boxscore Update
- Consider different alternatives for enriching lean acid gases
- Avoid condensation-induced transient pressure waves
- When is CO2 more hazardous than H2S
- Use online analyzers for successful monitoring
- Advanced chemical process for treating sour gas
- Safe detection of small to large gas releases
- Considerations for blast-resistant electrical equipment centers
- What are the strategies for sustainable chemical production?
- Going ‘green’ with FCC expander technology
- Case 60: Socket-weld failures
- HPI Marketplace
- Advertiser Index
- HPIN Control

Hydrocarbon Processing - December 2010

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:11:39 -0500

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - December 2010
- Contents
- Hpin Brief
- Hpin Reliability
- Hpintegration Strategies
- Hpin Associations
- Hpi Viewpoint
- European Downstream Oil Industry Safety Performance
- Fieldbus Foundation Registers Devices With Advanced Field Diagnostics
- Ethanol to Hit Refining Profitability
- Hpin Construction
- Hpi Construction Boxscore Update
- Maximize Return on Capital Projects
- Best Practices in Treating Liquefied Petroleum Gas Are Defined
- Consider New Coatings for Maintenance Turnaround
- Operator-Driven Reliability: Training and Implementation
- Improve Engineering via Whole-Plant Design Optimization
- Prevent Flow-Induced Vibration in Heat Exchangers
- Optimize Heat Exchanger Installations
- Convert Waste Heat Into Eco-Friendly Energy
- Implementing Advanced Process Control on Ammonia Plants
- Critical Concepts in Fieldbus System Design Differ From a Conventional Dcs
- What Is New in Api 610 11th Ed. (Iso 13709 2nd Ed.)?
- Development of Support Vector Regression-Based Soft Sensor
- Hpi Marketplace
- Advertiser Index
- Hpin Control

Hydrocarbon Processing - November 2010

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 17:13:42 -0400

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - November 2010
- Contents
- HPIn Brief
- HPIn Reliability
- HPIn Europe
- HPIntegration Strategies
- HPI Viewpoint
- LCFS will Adversely Affect Oil-Sands Crude Refiners
- US Demand for Lubricants to Reach 2.25 Billion Gallons in 2014
- Linde Supplying Hydrogen Technology to US BMW Plant
- Oil and Gas Reserves Increased 3 Percent in 2009
- HPInnovations
- HPIn Construction
- HPI Construction Boxscore Update
- Stretch in Technology and Gaps in Process Safety for the Hydrocarbon Industry
- Better Water Management: A Crucial and Growing Requirement
- Water Among Causes for Storage Tank Explosion
- Consider New Analysis for Flares
- Designing the Correct Pressure-Relieving System
- Customize Operator Training for Your Thermal Oxidizers
- Emergency Response Planning—Start at the Plant Design Stage
- Optimized Fired Heater Control
- Consider Real-Gas Modeling for Turboexpanders
- Predictive Emissions Monitoring Helps Reduce Stack Air Emissions
- Consider Switching to Internet Protocol Surveillance
- Case 59: Heat-Up Rates and Thermal Cracking
- HPI Marketplace
- Advertiser Index
- HPIn Water Management

Hydrocarbon Processing - October 2010

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:51:08 -0400

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - October 2010
- Contents
- HPIN Brief
- HPIN Reliability
- HPIN Europe
- HPIN Associations
- HPIN Control
- IEC Calls for a Global Taskforce
- Global Industrial Valves Market Growing
- Industrial Gas Demand Expanding
- Studying the Future of Transportation Fuels
- The New Biofuel: It’s Whisky in a Car
- HPInnovations
- HPIN Construction
- HPI Constructon Boxscore Update
- How to Have a Successful Data Reconciliation Software Implementation
- Improve Exploration, Production and Refining with ‘Add-at-Will’ Wireless Automation
- Building and Installing a Reliable Industrial Ethernet Infrastructure
- Increase Your Margin by 25 percent
- Advanced Process Control in the Plant Engineering and Construction Phases
- Mitigate Fouling in Ebullated-Bed Hydrocrackers
- Troubleshoot Silicon Contamination on Catalysts
- Cost Optimization in Mechanical Seal Applications
- New Correlation for Calculating Natural gas Z-factor
- Consider Using Alternative Carrier Gases for Petrochemical Analysis
- HPI Marketplace
- Advertiser Index
- HPIN Water Management
- 2010 European Turnaround and Maintenance Services Directory

Hydrocarbon Processing - September 2010

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:55:21 -0400

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - September 2010
- Contents
- HPIN Brief
- HPIN Reliability
- HPIntegration Strategies
- HPIN Control
- Strong second quarter for US refiners
- Low-carbon fuel standard could cause ‘crude shuffle’
- $8.4 billion Chinese pump market by 2015
- BP to pay $50.6 million for Texas City explosion
- HPIN Construction
- HPI Construction Boxscore Update
- 20 Questions: Identify probable causes for high FCC catalyst loss
- Consider high-impact constructability issues for refineries
- Bottomless refinery: Improve refinery economics
- Biorenewables update: What is beyond ethanol and biodiesel?
- Upgrade FFC performance—Part 1
- Fine-tune processing heavy crudes in your facility
- Mitigate corrosion in your crude unit
- Improve vacuum tower revamp projects
- Calculating the temperature distribution in horizontal vessel saddle supports
- Spiral-wound or kammprofile gaskets?
- Managing projects in a global environment
- Hydrobulging of storage tanks and its effect on first support selection
- Case history 58: Piston pin plug wear
- HPI Marketplace
- Advertiser Index
- HPIN Water Management

Hydrocarbon Processing - August 2010

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:59:02 -0400

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - August 2010
- Contents
- HPIN Brief
- HPIN Reliability
- HPIN Associations
- HPIN Control
- MIT studies the future of natural gas
- PLC and PLC-based PAC market poised to rebound
- HPIN Novations
- HPIN Construction
- Letters to the Editor
- HPI Construction Boxcore Update
- Prevent electric erosion in variable-frequency drive bearings
- Valve design reduces costs and increases safety for US refineries
- Pump aftermarket offers solutions for abrasive services
- How the inertia number points to compressor system design challenges
- Gas refineries can benefit from installing a flare gas recovery system
- Estimating tank calibration uncertainty
- Optimize operating parameters of absorbers/strippers in gas plants
- Process Control and Instrumentation 2010
- Increase crude unit capacity through better integration
- HPI Marketplace
- Advertiser Index
- HPIN Automation Safety

Hydrocarbon Processing - July 2010

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:06:00 -0400

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - July 2010
- HPIN Brief
- HPIN Reliability
- HPIN Europe
- HPINtegration Stratefies
- German Petrochemical Industry Faces Competition From Asia-Pacific
- EU Chemical Industry On Upswing
- US Chemicals Legislation Could Create Unintended Consequences
- HPIN Construction
- HPI Construction Boxscore Update
- Liquefied Natural Gas And North American Shale Gas: Room For Both?
- Materials Market Update: Opportunities In A Challenging Economy
- Dynamic Simulation Of Liquefied Natural Gas Processes
- Perfecting Liquefied Natural Gas Analysis Techniques And Methods
- Liquefied Natural Gas Terminal With Low Environmental Impact
- Finetune Boil-Off Gas Generation From Refrigeration Storage Facilities
- Discover New Trends In Oily Wastewater Reclamation
- Automation Improves Asset Reliability For Refiners
- Boosting Temperature Inferential Control PerformanceIn Distillation Columns
- Case 57: Troubleshooting The Cause Of Sudden Impacts
- HPI Marketplace
- Advertiser Index
- HPIN Control

Hydrocarbon Processing - June 2010

Mon, 24 May 2010 11:47:07 -0400

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - June 2010
- HPIN Brief
- HPIN Europe
- HPIntegration Strategies
- HPIN Associations
- HPIN Control
- HPI Viewpoint
- Large steam-cracking furnace modules arrive in Singapore
- EPA urged to delay judgment on E15
- Energy future must include mix of renewables
- HPInnovations
- HPIN Construction
- HPI Construction Boxscore Update
- How will carbon emissions regulations revise energy conservation economics?
- Low-cost advanced process control project captures energy savings in utilities area
- Modify your vacuum-tower transfer line to increase benefits
- Advanced process control: quick and easy energy savings
- Consider low-voltage AC drives for hazardous areas
- Trading silicon for carbon: how to reduce energy usage through automation
- Performing correct initial blowdown calculations
- How to avoid interface engineering problems
- Troubleshooting waste-heat boiler poor heat transfer
- HPI Marketplace
- Advertiser Index
- HPIN Water Management

Hydrocarbon Processing - May 2010

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:41:28 -0400

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - May 2010
- Contents
- HPIN Brief
- HPIN Reliability
- HPINtegration Strategies
- HPIN Associations
- Underground Gas Storage on the Rise
- Responding to Oil Supply Emergencies
- Refiners in a Tough Market
- Medium Voltage Motor Drives Sales Projected to Decline in 2010
- HPIN Construction
- HPI Construction Boxscore Update
- Flow-Induced Fatigue Failure in Tubular Heat Exchangers
- Purging and Inerting Large-Volume Tankage and Equipment—Jet Mixing Concept—Part 1
- Heat-Exchanger Failure Analysis in a Naphtha Cracking Unit
- Oil-Mist Lubrication for Fin-Fan Shafts
- Fundamental Changes Coming in Asia’s Petrochemical Industry
- Establishing Safety Representatives Who Are Effective
- Consider CFD Analysis to Support Critical Separation Operations
- Strategize Preshutdown Work to Enhance Productivity
- Implementing a Suitable Safety Instrumented System—Part 1
- Sulfur Solutions 2010
- Case 56: Quick Troubleshooting of Shaft Failures
- HPI Marketplace
- Advertiser Index
- HPIN Water Management

Hydrocarbon Processing - April 2010

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 11:42:19 -0400

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - April 2010
- Table of Contents
- HPIN Brief
- HPIN Reliability
- HPIN Control
- HPI Viewpoint
- OPEC's Perspective on Global Refining Operations
- HPImpact
- Demand Expands for Hydrogen
- Hot Work is Dangerous Business
- HPInnovations
- HPIN Construction
- Letters to the Editor
- HPI Construction Boxscore Update
- Upgrade Syngas Production
- Plastics Enable Better Automobile Designs
- Improve Inerting Practices at your Facility
- Upgrade Low-Value Refinery Streams into Higher-Value Petrochemicals
- Update: Spent Caustic Treatment
- What Every Manager Should Know About Layers of Protection Analysis
- Looking for Improved Diesel Yields?
- The Six Sigma Green Belt Training Program: An In-Depth Look
- Solve Liquid-Hammer Problems
- Blower Selection for Wastewater Aeration
- HPI Marketplace
- Advertiser Index
- HPIN Control

Hydrocarbon Processing - March 2010

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:24:11 -0500

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - March 2010
- Contents
- HP in Brief
- HP in Reliability
- HP in Europe
- HP Integration Strategies
- HP in Associations
- HP in Control
- HP Impact
- Benzene Emissions Decrease at US Refineries
- ‘On-Purpose’ Propylene Production
- HP in Construction
- Fieldbus Diagnostics: Latest Advancements Optimize Plant Asset Management
- Breaking Down the Silos Between Energy and Asset Management
- Improving Data Reconciliation and Yield Accounting
- Ensuring Safe Operations When Fulfilling Action Item Requirements
- Iron Sulfides - Effect on Amine Plants
- Consider New Methods for Bottom of the Barrel Processing - Part 2
- Catalyst 2010
- Case 55: Effect of a Sudden Temperature Change in a Gearbox
- HPI Marketplace
- Advertiser Index
- HP Automation Safety

Hydrocarbon Processing - February 2010

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:49:34 -0500

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - February 2010
- Contents
- HPIN Brief
- HPIN Reliability
- HPIN Europe
- HPIntegration Strategies
- HPIN Associations
- EIA’s Energy Outlook
- Taking a Long, Hard Look at Ethanol
- HPImpact
- HPIN Construction
- HPI Viewpoint
- Viewpoint
- Consider New Methods for Bottom of the Barrel Processing—Part 1
- Designing Vacuum Distillation for Deep-Cut Bitumen Service
- Catalytic Technology: Options for Better Hydrogen Production
- Dealing with Dieselization
- Improve Usage of Regenerated Refining Catalysts
- Calculating Turbulent Diffusion Jet Flames
- Delayed Coker Heater Analysis Using an Artificial Neural Network
- Implement a Constrained Optimal Control in a Conventional Level Controller—Part 2
- HPI Marketplace
- Advertiser Index
- HPIN Control

Hydrocarbon Processing - January 2010

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:38:45 -0500

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - January 2010
- Contents
- HPIn Brief
- HPIn Reliability
- HPIn Europe
- HPIntegration Strategies
- Struggles for US Refiners Expected to Continue
- HPImpact
- The EU's ETS at a Glance
- HPInnovations
- HPIn Construction
- Industry Forecast Forum
- Letters to the Editor
- HPI Construction Boxscore Update
- Advanced Mercury Removal Technologies
- A Unique Natural Gas Processing Success Story
- Equilibrium Considerations in Choosing a Gas Treating Amine
- Designing a Selective MDEA Tail-Gas Treating Unit
- When Does Carbon Capture Make Sense?
- Managing Costs and Incidents in Industrial Plant Equipment
- Designing for Pressure Safety Valves in Supercritical Service
- New Explicit Friction Factor Equation for Turbulent Flow in Smooth Pipes
- Implement a Constrained Optimal Control in a Conventional Level Controller - Part 1
- Case 54: Is it Motor Vibration or Some Other Cause
- HPI Marketplace
- Advertisers Index
- HPIn Water Management

Hydrocarbon Processing - December 2009

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:14:17 -0500

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - December 2009
- Contents
- HPIN Brief
- HPIN Reliability
- HPIN Europe
- HPI Integration Strategies
- The Roller Coaster Shows No Signs of Slowing Down
- New Regulatory Pressures Mean a Tough Slog for the EU’s Refining Industry
- HPI Impact
- Successful Strategies in the Current Market Conditions
- Small Technologies Can Deliver Big Punches
- HPIN Construction
- HPI Construction Boxscore Update
- What Are the 10 Secrets of Successful Leaders?
- Maintain a Competitive Edge in the Liquefied Natural Gas Industry
- Advanced Hydrocracking Technology Upgrades Extra Heavy Oil
- Executing a Standard Plant Design Using the 4X Model
- Case History: Benchmarks Achieved in a Residue Upgrading Project
- Think Power Pumps are Self-Priming? Think Again!
- Fine Tune Accuracy in Analytic Measurement - Part 3
- Requirement Engineering and Management - Part 2 - Performance Standards Development
- Ensuring Site-Wide Consistency in Relief System Analyses
- HPI Marketplace
- Advertiser Index
- HPIN Control

Hydrocarbon Processing - November 2009

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:54:42 -0500

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - November 2009
- Table of Contents
- HPIN Brief
- HPIN Reliability
- HPIntergration Strategies
- HPIN Control
- HPIN Associations
- HPImpact
- Methanol Industry Rides Out Economic Difficulties
- How Misguided Policies Interfere with Global Market and Future Supplies
- HPI Viewpoint
- HPIN Construction
- HPI Construction Boxscore Update
- Prevent Storage Tank Fires
- Avoid Confusion When Performing Safety Integrity Levels
- Software Tools Are Never a Substitute for Competency
- Requirement Engineering and Management—Part 1—Safety Critical Elements Identification
- Update Management of Your Cooling Water Systems
- Wastewater Treatment: A Refinery Case Study
- Fine Tune Accuracy in Analytic Measurement—Part 2
- Hydrocracking Solutions Squeeze More ULSD From Heavy Ends
- Case 53: Electrical Faults Can Cause Shaft and Gear Failures
- HPI Marketplace
- Advertiser Index
- HPIN Water Management

Hydrocarbon Processing - October 2009

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:44:41 -0400

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - October 2009
- Contents
- HPIN Brief
- HPIN Reliability
- HPIN Europe
- HPIntegration Strategies
- HPIN Control
- HPIN Association
- How Natural Gas Impacts the US Economy
- HPImpact
- Mixed Outlook, At Best, for LNG Projects in Iran
- US EPA and NHTSA Purpose Program to Reduce Greenhouse Gases and Improve Fuel Economy
- Viewpoint
- HPIN Construction
- HPI Construction Boxscore Update
- Practical Process Control System Metrics
- Agile Supply Chain Planning
- Service-Oriented Architecture Simplifies Data Source Integration
- Predicting Octane Numbers for Gasoline Blends Using Artifical Neural Networks
- Implementing and Maintaining Advanced Process Control on Continuous Catalytic Reforming
- Design and Implement and Effective Equipment Integrity Management System
- Fine Tune Accuracy in Analytic Measurement - Part 1
- Consider Advanced Multi-Promoted Catalysts to Optimize Reformers
- HPI Marketplace
- Advertiser Index
- HPIN Automation Safety

Hydrocarbon Processing - September 2009

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:25:56 -0400

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - September 2009
- Table of Contents
- HPIN Brief
- HPIN Reliability
- HPIN Europe
- HPIntegration Strategies
- HPIN Associations
- Styrenics market hot further by economic downturn
- HPImpact
- Developing regions increase demand for plastics
- HPInnovations
- HPIn Construction
- HPI Construction Boxscore Update
- Viewpoint
- Maximize liquid yield from extra heavy oil
- Greenhouse gas emissions: Characterization and management
- Increase the flexibility of your Claus unit
- 'Green up' air and water pollutant control
- Consider advanced modeling to control air emissions
- Improve efficiency of furnaces and boilers
- Residue upgrading: Challenges and perspectives
- Applying pumps with variable-speed drivers
- Designing the LNG terminal of the future
- Effective standardization: Harnessing the power of your organization
- Case 52: Problems with a blocked-in centrifugal pump
- HPI Marketplace
- Advertiser Index
- HPIN Control
- GPC Software Reference Guide

Hydrocarbon Processing - August 2009

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:25:01 -0400

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - August 2009
- Contents
- HPIn Brief
- HPIn Reliability
- HPIn Europe
- HPIn Control
- HPIntegration Strategies
- HPIn Associations
- HPImpact
- Global Energy Demand Down in 2009
- Economic Recovery in Sight for Chemical Industry
- HPIn Construction
- Letters to the Editor
- Understanding and Maintaining an Effective Lubrication System
- Improve Gas Compression Systems with All-welded Shell-and-Plate Heat Exchangers
- Consider Ceramic Bearings for Screw Compressors
- A Retrofit of this System at a Refining Company Provided a Payout in Less Than a Year
- Predicting Liquid Hold-up In Horizontal Stratified Two-Phase Flow
- Heat Transfer
- Safety/Loss Prevention
- Process Technologies
- Piping/Fluid Flow
- HPI Marketplace
- Advertiser Index
- HPIn Water Management

Hydrocarbon Processing - July 2009

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:42:05 -0400

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - July 2009
- Contents
- HPIN Brief
- HPIN Reliability
- HPIN Europe
- HPIN Control
- HPIN Associations
- HPIN Impact
- HPImpact: LNG Outlook
- HPImpact: Prepare for the Upturn
- HPIN Innovations
- HPIN Construction
- HPIN Construction Boxscore Update
- Are Floating LNG Facilities Viable Options?
- Consider New Approach for Floating LNG Units
- Minimize Risks from Cryogenic Exposure on LNG Facilities
- Consider Investing in a Standard-Compliant Process Analyzer
- Estimate Water Hammer Loads in Steam Piping
- Do you Have Hard-to-Handle Gases?
- A continual Improvement Process that Really Works
- Selection of Gas Processing Technologies Used by Modern Facilites that Treat and Purify Natural Gas
- Case 51: Phantom Failures
- HPIN Marketplace
- Advertiser Index
- HPIN Automation Safety

Hydrocarbon Processing - June 2009

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:34:53 -0400

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - June 2009
- Contents
- HPIN Brief
- HPIN Reliability
- HPIN Europe
- HPINtegration Strategies
- HPIN Associations
- Mergers, Acquisitions In Global Oil and Gas Markets Slump
- Valve Industry: Reason for Optimism, Despite Projected Downturn
- HPImpact
- Common Sense Needed to Forge Energy Policy, say former Shell CEO
- Efficiency Goals Could Radically Reshape EU's Energy Landscape-- CERA
- HPInnovations
- HPIN Construction
- HPI Construction Boxscore Update
- Optimize Plant Performance Using Dynamic Simulation
- Re-evaluate your Expansion Projects for the New Global Market
- Rethink your Liquid-Liquid Separations
- IT/Automation Convergence Revisited
- Maximize Ethylene Gain in Acetylene Removal Units
- Unifying Framework for Six Sigma and Process Control
- Designing and Troubleshooting Stabilization Plant Filtration Systems - Part 1
- Minimize Vaporization and Displacement Losses from Storage Containers
- HPI Marketplace
- Advertiser Index
- HPIN Control

Hydrocarbon Processing - May 2009

Tue, 05 May 2009 14:50:31 -0400

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - May 2009
- Contents
- HP In Brief
- HP In Reliability
- HP Integration Strategies
- HP In Associations
- China
- HP Impact
- Demand for Plant Asset Management Shows Surprising Resiliency
- U.S. Refiners' Utilization Down 5%25
- Renewed Interest for US IGCC, Carbon-capture Coal Power Plant
- HP In Construction
- What's New in Vertical Enclosed Shaft-Driven Sump Pumps
- Risk-based Inspection, a Panacea for Plant Failures?
- Proper Gasket Removal and Replacement can Reduce Maintenance and Increase Uptime
- Improve Cooling Tower Gear Drive Reliability
- Rethink Planning for Heat-Recovery Systems
- Facility Siting- Balancing Risk Vs. Cost
- Consider New Feedstocks for Dimethyl Ether Production
- How to Select the Better Liquid-Level Measurement System
- New Explicit Friction Factor Equation for Turbulent Flow in Rough Pipes
- Explicit Friction Factor Correlations for Turbulent Fluid Flow in Noncircular Ducts and Polymeric Fluids
- Sustainable Cost Cuts in Capital Spending
- Case 50: Gearbox Input Shaft Failure Analysis
- HPI Marketplace
- Advertiser Index
- HP In Water Management

Hydrocarbon Processing - April 2009

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:41:00 -0400

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - April 2009
- Contents
- HPIN Brief
- HPIN Reliability: Pump Suction Strainer Issues
- HPIN Europe: CO2 Constraints ‘May be the Best News for Shell’—CEO
- HPINTEGRATION Strategies: Reducing Cost through an Integrated Approach to Power and Automation
- HPIN Associations
- HPIMPACT
- Economy, Capacity Additions Pressure Polyolefins Markets
- Asia’s Thirst for Oil Likely to Swell Again, but When?
- EPA Chemicals Oversight Questioned in New GAO Report
- HPINNOVATIONS
- HPIN Construction
- ACHEMA 2009: A Special Report
- Lead or Get Out of the Way
- Improve Product Ethylene Separation
- Reevaluate Your Process Safety Systems for Hazardous Material Storage
- Update Catalyst Technology for Syngas Production
- Extreme Failure Analysis: Never Again a Repeat Failure
- Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation of Solid–Liquid Slurry Flow
- Apply New Trends for Safety-Instrumented Systems
- Maximize Up-Time for Sulfur Testing
- Rethink Your Overpressure Systems
- Transforming Refining Best Practices with 3D Virtual Models
- Case 49: Isolating Foundations from Machinery Vibrating Forces
- HPI Marketplace
- Advertiser Index
- HPIN Automation Safety: Are you the Designated Jailee?

Hydrocarbon Processing - March 2009

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - March 2009
- Contents
- HPIN Brief
- HPIN Associations
- HP Impact
- Networking, Alarm Management, Security Among Top Initiatives
- Coke Drum Delivery Marks Prokect Milestone at Texas Refinery
- Pace of Economic Decline Forecast to Slow in First Half of 2009
- Nobel Laureate Chu Selected to Head US Department of Energy
- HP Innovations
- HPIN Construction
- Wireless Networks Improve Refinery Operation
- OPC UA: An End User's Perspective
- Soft Sensor Modeling Using Artificial Neural Networks
- Hydrogen Gas Detection
- Fine-Tuning Demercaptanization Process: A Case Study
- What are the Opportunities to Construct Liquefaction Facilities at the Arctic Circle?
- Auxiliary Pumps and Support Systems for Process Machinery
- Consider Practical Conditions for Vacuum Unit Modeling
- From Dynamic 'Mysterious' Control to Dynamic 'Manageable' Control
- HPI Marketplace
- Advertiser Index

Hydrocarbon Processing - February 2009

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - February 2009
- Contents
- HPIN Brief
- HPIN Reliability
- HPImpact
- Report: US Refining Needs a Tune-up to Meet Global Product Demand
- Robust Growth for India’s DCS Market Forecast to Continue
- Viable Coal-to-liquids Fuel Production Calls for Government Spark
- HPIN Construction
- Renewable Energy Solutions for an Energy Hungry World
- How to Meet Ultra-low Sulfur Requirements for Gasoline
- Why Integrate Refineries and Petrochemical Plants?
- Consider New Technology to Produce Renewable Diesel
- Advances in Delayed Coking Heat Transfer Equipment
- Improve Hydrogen Management of Your Refinery
- Improve Operations of your Claus Unit
- Measuring Total Hydrocarbon and H2S in Amine Acid Gas Streams
- HPI Construction Boxscore 2009
- Reconciling Requirements in API-682 Dual-seal Design Configurations
- Noncontacting Seals: a Proven Technology for Handling Hydrocarbon Fluids
- Precision Face Topography Improves Seal Performance
- HPI Marketplace
- Advertiser Index
- HPIN Water Management

Hydrocarbon Processing - January 2009

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- Hydrocarbon Processing - January 2009
- Contents
- HPIN Brief
- HPIn Reliability
- HPIn Europe
- HPIntegration Strategies
- HPIn Associations
- Energy Costs, Credit Crsis Forcec Subdued Stance for Chemicals
- HPImpact
- Study: Despite Losses, Chinese Refining Remains 'Attractive'
- Watch for Opportunity, Risks in Changing Market Conditions
- Natural Gas Demand Impels Healthy Growth in Ultrasonic Flowmeters
- 'Environmental Burden' of Coal-fired Power Plants Quantified
- Mastering the Art of Personal Communication in a Digital Age
- Improved Efficiencies Lower Exxon Mobil's Global Demand Forecast
- HPInnovations
- HPIn Construction
- What is the Outlook for Building New LNG Facilities?
- Which Physical Solvent is Best for Acid Gas Removal?
- Reduce Air Emissions from Natural Gas Vaporization Units
- Estimating Water-Adsorption Isotherms
- Industrial Qualification of a New Transfer System
- Natural Gas, the Clean Fuel
- Developments in Metal-seated Valves for Severe-service Applications
- Genetic Algorithm Tuning Improves Artificial Neural Network Models
- Help Identify Causes of Process Industry Accidents
- Global Terminal Management Systems: Key Requirements
- Case 48: Troubleshooting a Roller-bearing Failure
- HPI Marketplace
- Advertiser Index
- HPIn Control