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Conference Presentations - 2010 AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety

Enterprise Inventory Management in Volatile Markets

Mar 22, 2010
Craig Acuff, Simon Rogers
Hydrocarbon and other commodity prices are increasingly volatile due to factors which include speculation, reduced inventory and a lack of spare capacity. Energy prices are likely to trend higher as we replace depleted crude oil and natural gas fields and reduce emissions. In this environment...

Cracked Gas Dryer Tutorial (Part 2)

Mar 22, 2010
Bruno De Jonckheere
This tutorial will begin with a brief introduction to molecular sieves followed by a description of the process, covering overall operation of the charge gas dryer including adsorption and regeneration steps. Key design considerations will be discussed along with optimization and troubleshooting...

Energy and Resource Efficiency Plenary

Mar 22, 2010
Amory B. Lovins
Amory Lovins leads a discussion of the 10xE concepts for reducing energy use by a factor of 10. Following is the announcement of the award recipients of the joint AIChE-RMI 10xE competition.

Deployment of ZeaChem's Sustainable Biorefinery

Mar 22, 2010
Tim Eggeman
Increased emphasis is being placed on renewable, sustainable, domestic forms of energy, including transportation fuels, at national, state and local levels. Successful deployment of alternative solutions to petroleum-based liquid fuels for the transportation industry is dependent upon technical,...

Unusual Corrosion Failures of Transfer Line Exchangers

Mar 22, 2010
Pinakin Mistry
This paper describes two case histories of corrosion failures. The first case history describes metal dusting of the tubes and tubesheet from the process side in the horizontal TLE. The tubesheet of TLE was overlayed with Alloy 625 to prevent erosion. Deposition on the waterside allowed higher than...

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