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Chem Economics: ACC Releases Portfolio of Specialty Chemicals Indexes

September
2012
Chem Economics
T. Kevin Swift
The American Chemistry Council (ACC) has launched a new set of indexes covering nearly 30 segments of the U.S. specialty chemicals market. (The first, which dealt with plastic additives, was discussed in the July issue, p. 13.) This is the first set...
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Furnace Penetration Sealing Systems - Engineered Solutions for Cracking Furnaces

Mar 14, 2011
Malcolm A. Peirson
Ethylene Cracking Furnace operators are under continuing pressure to increase furnace efficiency. Fuel costs, environmental concerns and reduced maintenance budgets demand that unit reliability and efficiency be kept at a high level. Our paper will discuss an operational problem common to high...

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Jonathan Currie
The operating costs of a typical refinery utility system are so significant that small operational improvements can result in large annual savings. This paper introduces a new utility modelling package designed for PETRONAS to allow in-house modelling and optimization of their refinery and...

New Continuous Coking Process

Mar 14, 2011
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Cooling Water Issues – Cause and Solutions to Microbiologically Induced Corrosion

Mar 14, 2011
Carl G. Matherne
In the 2007 turnaround at the BASF FINA PETROCHEMICAL L.P. Ethylene Steam Cracker, severe damage was discovered in the cooling tower to process exchangers. Over 41 exchangers had been replaced or required total tube bundle replacement within the first seven years of operation. Several of the units...

Using a Continuous MPC Algorithm to Control An Unsteady Batch Fermentation Process

Mar 14, 2011
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Classical MPC has been leveraged to improve control on a nonlinear unsteady-state system, batch alcohol fermentation. The controller uses a hybrid model with fundamental reaction equations along with empirical process data-based modeling. More than thirty lines of batch quality control have been...

Predicting Operating Regimes In Heavy Gas Oil Hydrotreating Reactors

Mar 14, 2011
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C5 Metathesis for Increased Propylene Production

Mar 14, 2011
Robert J. Gartside
The production of on-purpose propylene via the metathesis of ethylene and butenes now exceed 6% of the total propylene. The supply of butenes is tightening worldwide due to both the increased demand for metathesis feedstocks and the increased demand for butadiene. The C5 cut from steam crackers has...

Use of Process Simulation In Ethylene Plant APC and Dynamic Optimization

Mar 14, 2011
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Showa Denko owns and operates a large Ethylene plant in Oita, Japan. Depending on the economic environment, plant objective is a combination of Energy Efficiency and Production Capacity. In order to achieve these objectives, Showa Denko had contracted Yamatake and Honeywell to design, configure and...

Exploitation of Low-Grade Heat In Site Utility Systems

Mar 14, 2011
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The site utility system provides the heating, cooling load along with power production for the processes on the total site. Low-grade heat is available in large amount across the process industry from temperatures of 30 o C to 250 o C as gases (e.g. flue gas) and/or liquids (e.g. cooling water)...

Novel Additives to Improve Resid Quality

Mar 14, 2011
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Petroleum Resid Conversion: Opportunities and Limitations

Mar 14, 2011
Irv Wiehe
In the conversion of vacuum resids one has the option to form coke as a byproduct or to devise conversion processes that prevent coke formation while forming a heavy liquid byproduct. The theme of this presentation is that both options can be greatly improved over current commercial practice but...

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