May 2012

Options for Mercury Removal in Ethylene Plants

Conference Presentation

AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety

March 23, 2010

Ethylene producers have faced the challenge of feedstock contaminants for decades. However, with current industry transitions and surplus capacity,...

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Catastrophic Failure of a Dissimilar Metal Weld in a High Pressure Steam Venturi

Conference Presentation

AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety

March 23, 2010

In mid-2009 at the BASF FINA Petrochemical L.P. Steam Cracker in Port Arthur, Texas, a venturi-type flow meter in super-high-pressure steam service...

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Furnace Safe Park DCS Tool

Conference Presentation

AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety

March 23, 2010

Properly managing the shutdown or “safe parking” of multiple steam-cracking furnaces during a plant-wide upset can be challenging. Alarm flood and...

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Advanced Catalysts for C2-C4 Selective Hydrogenation

Conference Presentation

AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety

March 22, 2010

Availability of pure olefin monomers is a key step in the production of polymers. These olefins are mainly produced by steam crackers. KataLeuna...

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Recovery of NaOH from Wet Air Oxidized Spent Caustic Using Industrial Electrodialysis

Conference Presentation

AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety

March 24, 2010

This paper describes test trials for the recovery of NaOH from oxidized ethylene spent caustic. The recovered NaOH is of sufficient strength, quality...

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Carbon Capture and Storage - Can CCS Be a Viable Business?

Conference Presentation

AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety

March 21, 2010

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) has been characterized as the technology that can jump start mitigation of greenhouse gases until new, less carbon...

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Boiler Technology to Monitor and Control Corrosion in the Ethylene Plant Steam Generation Process

Conference Presentation

AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety

March 22, 2010

Maintaining reliable and efficient operations in the Ethylene Plant Steam Generation Process requires good control of corrosion in the pre-boiler and...