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Conference Presentations - 2011 AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety

CO2 Tolerant N2 Rejection From Natural Gas

Mar 13, 2011
Heinz C. Bauer
Associated gas from the oil industry has been flared for decades. The prevailing attitude towards CO 2 emissions and other pollutants requires smart approaches to processing low BTU gases in a cost effective and environmentally responsible manner. The injection of nitrogen into oil reservoirs for...

Compressor Train Performance - Evaluation and Monitoring (Part 2)

Mar 13, 2011
Stephen Plaisance
Utilization of Equipment Health Management system tools has allowed end users to monitor, protect and manage the critical rotating machinery in an Ethylene Plant. This paper will present an equipment health management system architecture, hardware and software components that provide performance...

Compressor Train Performance - Evaluation and Monitoring (Part 1)

Mar 13, 2011
Satoshi Hata
Utilization of Equipment Health Management system tools has allowed end users to monitor, protect and manage the critical rotating machinery in an Ethylene Plant. The systematic monitoring and evaluation of turbomachinery is an important diagnostic tool in the execution of a long-term maintenance...

Confusion and Anxiety: The Very Latest on the Re-Revised Ozone Standard

Mar 13, 2011
Steven Ramsey
In May 2008, the EPA established new 8-hour primary and secondary ozone standards equal to 0.075 ppm. This represented a significant tightening over the previous 0.08 ppm 8-hour standard. However, a little more than a year later, in September 2009, EPA announced that it was going to reconsider the...

Power System Design for a Hybrid Fuel Cell Vehicle: A Globally Optimal Approach

Mar 13, 2011
Syed Kaschif Ahmed
The notion of a fuel cell powered vehicle has captured the imagination of many as a clean/efficient alternative to the internal combustion engine. However, the capital cost of a fuel cell power unit is significant, and threatens to be a show-stopping hurtle. As such, many have looked to hybridize...

Processing Heavy Crudes In Existing Refineries

Mar 13, 2011
Kevin Turini
Increasing amounts of heavy crudes are being produced, particularly in Canada and South America. The discount prices for these crudes, relative to light sweet crudes, make them attractive for refiners that can process them, particularly if they have a geographic advantage relative to the crude...

What Are We Going to Do with All This Natural Gas?” –

Mar 13, 2011
Sam Thomas
The success in Shale and other unconventional formations has dramatically expanded the N. American Natural Gas reserves and promises to also do so in many other parts of the world. New LNG liquefaction capacity in the Middle East and Asia along with additional large scale capacity from Australia...

Green House Gas Reporting In the Ethylene Manufacturing Sector

Mar 13, 2011
Valerie Barth
The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Mandatory Reporting rule (MRR), codified in Part 98 of Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations, requires numerous manufacturing sectors including ethylene manufacturing plants in the U.S. to report actual GHG emissions from applicable facilities starting from reporting...

Fundamentals of Alarm Management

Mar 13, 2011
Peter G. Herena
When the information era began thirty years ago, the focus for the refinery control specialist was placing as much data as possible into the hands of engineers and operators. The philosophy remained prevalent though the volume of transferred data leaped by orders of magnitude every decade...

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