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Turbo-Expander Case History: Knowledge of Turbomachinery Health Helps Make Process Decisions

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 23, 2010
Koch Nitrogen, like every chemical plant, has a few rotating machines in the realm of critical where words like human safety, explosion, months to...

Impact of MARPOL Annex VI Regulations for Marine Fuels Supply

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 23, 2010
The International Maritime Organization's (IMO) has adopted new emissions standards, MARPOL Annex VI, for large ships and their fuels in order to...

Cooldown of Large Pipes During the Commissioning Phase of Cryogenic Facilities

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 23, 2010
Cryogenic facilities such as LNG receiving terminals operate at temperatures as low as -260F. During day to day operations, the temperature in the...

Framework for Selecting Thin-Cake Candle Filter Technology for Removing Solid Contaminant Fines from Recirculating Acid Gas Scrubbing Fluid Streams

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 23, 2010
The need for filtration systems in scrubbing units has been well documented. Filtration provides the benefits of reduced hot spots in the regenerator...

Streamlining the Single Event Kinetics Based Simulation of a Catalytic Naphtha Reformer

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 23, 2010
A 19 KBPD commercial Catalytic Reforming Unit using a 4-bed stacked reactor for the production of BTX has been simulated. The underlying chemistry of...

Ethylene Unit Hydrocarbon Release and Fire, Sunoco Marcus Hook, PA Refinery

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 23, 2010
At approximately 10:15 p.m. on Sunday, May 17, 2009, there was a sudden and large hydrocarbon release from a main process pipe in the Ethylene Unit...

Energy and Capital Efficiency Differences in Benzene-Toluene Distillation Configurations

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 23, 2010
Benzene, toluene and xylene separation is a requirement for the production of the many valuable aromatic based materials used in consumer and...

Hybrid Membrane Absorption Process for Post Combustion CO2 Capture

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 23, 2010
Gas Technology Institute (GTI) and PoroGen Corporation are jointly developing a novel hybrid membrane – absorption process for pre- and post-...

Full Potential Conversion of Vacuum Resids

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 23, 2010
Present vacuum resid conversion processes, either coking or hydroconversion, are far from achieving their maximum conversion. With the remaining...

Development of a Model for the Prediction of Fouling in Heat Exchangers Processing Crude Oil

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 23, 2010
(Please Note: the audio does not start until 5 minutes 20 seconds as the speaker's microphone was not turned on.) A number of models have been...

Stripper Configurations for CO2 Capture by Aqueous Amines

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 23, 2010
A monumental task for improving the feasibility of carbon capture from the flue gas of coal-fired power plants is reducing the total energy cost. A...

Uncertainties in Modeling LNG Vapor Dispersion with CFD Codes

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 23, 2010
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models have been widely proposed and developed to predict LNG vapor dispersion behavior and to determine safe...

Technologies for Enhancing Refinery Gas Value

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 23, 2010
The trend of processing heavy and sour crude is resulting in 'fuel long' refineries which seek to export energy in the form of refinery fuel gas or...

Autothermal Reforming of Ethanol in a Fluidized Bed Membrane Reactor for Ultra-Pure Hydrogen Production

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 23, 2010
In recent years, many efforts have been made to develop processes and reactor technologies for the production of cheap, ultra-pure hydrogen that can...

Development of Technologies and Standards for the Life Time Management of LNG Storage Tanks

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 23, 2010
As the design life expiration date (about 25 years) approaches for domestic LNG storage tank, the issue of tank lifetime extension is paid more and...

Integrated Refinery Cracker, the New Paradigm

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 23, 2010
The new trends in crackers are higher capacity and heavier feedstock. This makes the integration between refineries and crackers significantly more...

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