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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Petroleum refineries"”.
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Advanced Safety Methodology for Risk Management of Petroleum Refinery Operations
Petroleum refineries are important facilities for refining petroleum products that provide the primary source of energy for domestic and industrial consumption globally. Petroleum refinery operations provide significant contribution to global economic growth. Petroleum refineries are complex, …
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Studies in process integration of energy and environmental systems
… how to optimize the energy recovery in petroleum refinery distillation systems via process integration. Chapter 3 presents an extension to a case study of heat integration of a vacuum distillation system. Chapter 4 describes the detailed synthesis, retrofit and optimization of HENs for a …
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Studies on Hydrogen-Pinch Analysis and Application of COSMO-SAC to Electrolytes
… and maximize hydrogen recovery and reuse in petroleum refineries and petrochemical complexes. Part (1) has appeared as a featured article on engineering practice in the Chemical Engineering Magazine, volume 115, pp. 56-61, June 2008. We present an automated spreadsheet on our research group …
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Petroleum refining and air quality management
Management of the air quality surrounding Petroleum Refineries deserves attention because the industry contributes almost five percent of the total emissions from all anthropogenic sources. A document containing a complete set of guidelines for use in the refining industry which satisfies the …
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Evaluation of metal dusting of nickel-chromium-iron based alloys in a laboratory environment
… the production of syngas, iron reduction plants, petroleum refineries, carbon dioxide cooled nuclear plants, fuel cells using molten salts and hydrocarbons, and the recycle-gas loop equipment of coal-gasification units. The consequence of carbon deposition is a metal related degradation phenomenon …
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Trusted Software Updates for Secure Enclaves in Industrial Control Systems
… such as water treatment facilities, petroleum refineries, and power plants. ICSs are networked through Information Technology (IT) infrastructure for remote monitoring and control of physical processes. As ICSs integrate with IT infrastructure, IT vulnerabilities are carried over to …
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Mechanistic Investigation of FCC CO/NOx Emission Control Additives
… a variety of higher-value products in modern petroleum refineries. Some portion of the nitrogen present in crude oil feeds is transported - as part of the coke formed during the cracking process - into the FCC regenerator unit and is eventually released from this unit in the form of NOx and …
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Managerial cost and budget control in petroleum refining
The elemental object of business is to provide a commodity or service to tbe consumer at a profit.* Business in the United States is perpetuated through competition, and in order for any one company to succeed in the fundamental objective, it must meet such competition successfully.
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Advancing plastics reutilization via catalytic hydroconversion
… to C1-C30 alkanes that can be utilized in petroleum refineries. This thesis aims to develop high-performance catalysts for polyolefin hydroconversion, elucidate the reaction networks and mechanism, and identify catalyst descriptors to control the deconstruction catalysis. ☐ The first focus …
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Development of an invertebrate bioassay to screen petroleum refinery effluents discharged into freshwater
… tests were conducted by personnel at six petroleum refineries. Duplicate tests were in agreement. Results of tests using actual refinery effluents ranged from no toxicity after 96 h to a mean lethal concentration of 1.2% effluent after 48 h. The data presented show that the method was …
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Alarm management: Mining for groups of co-occuring alarm tags
… industrial processes such as chemical plants and petroleum refineries have databases with the ability to store terabytes of data. While it is possible to manually extract the information required for alarm rationalization, the extensive quantity and complexity of data has made the analysis and …
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Environmental assessment of global site-specific industrial air pollution
… all global fossil power plants, steel mills, oil refineries and cement plants individually. Thus, detailed inventories are developed that link the specific technologies in use at more than 125 000 industrial sites, information about their operational practices, and measured emissions. This …