We didn’t expect severe corrosion issues in the carbon steel of our amine unit. What’s causing it? What’s the best route for maximum propylene from a resid feed to the FCC? Our air compressor trips off immediately after it powers…

Global trends towards lowering greenhouse gas emissions has forced energy companies to reevaluate their operating strategies. The challenge is time and concepts to achieve a “net zero,” which means looking at alternative feedstocks and new processes. These pressures are leading…

In case you missed the live broadcast, the recording is now available! Our subject matter experts will discuss opportunities to help you optimize and improve refinery and plant process, reliability and maintenance. In this first webinar we highlighted recent refinery…

In Part 1 we observed that some of the best results come from organizations with poor maintenance work processes and some organizations with a great work process have poor results. It was also noted that the maintenance work process itself…

In today's process and power industries, sustained long term reliability of facilities is a key to profitability and competitiveness. The cost of unreliability, which includes health, safety and environmental (HSE) incidents, is difficult for even healthy companies to endure, and…

Process plants require numerous types of equipment to produce the required products from the feed or raw material. This may involve moving gases, liquids and sometimes solids, and carrying out reaction, distillation or separation, cooling, heating and storage of feed,…