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3 Refining industry shifting investments Rene Gonzalez 5 ptq&a 19 Advancing catalytic performance in hydrotreating: Part 2 Andrea Battiston Ketjen
31 High-throughput testing for hydrocracking catalyst benchmarking Giada Innocenti, Carmen Angelini, Ben Miller, Xavier Sanz, Cansu Mai, and Ioan-Teodor Trotus hte Gmbh 37 Future-proofing cooling systems in a changing climate Viswanth Ramba, Sebastian Fogel, and Rahul Patil Alfa Laval 45 Economic and environmental versatile technologies in refining Danny Verboekend Zeopore Technologies 51 The future of petroleum refining: transform now or later? Part 1 Diana Brown and Thomas Yeung Hydrocarbon Publishing Company 59 Identify corrosive regimes in hydrofluoric alkylation units: Part 1 Ezequiel Vicent OLI Systems 67 Maximise utilisation of high-activity hydrotreating catalysts Andrew Layton KBC (A Yokogawa Company) 75 Corrosion control in refinery distillation Shaofeng Lin Veolia Water Technologies 81 Corrosion in amine units using MEA solvents for deep CO₂ removal: Part 3 David B Engel, Scott Williams, and Cody Ridge Nexo Solutions 87 Reducing refinery SOx emissions footprint Ganank Srivastava Bryan Research & Engineering, LLC 93 Process cooling in hot climates Susheel Moudgil Dubai Natural Gas Company Limited 99 Central role of diagnostics in distillation energy transition: Part 1 Henry Z Kister Fluor Corp Norman P Lieberman Process Improvement Engineering 105 Technology In Action Fresh momentum for Paqell’s Thiopaq O&G: the biological SRU Paqell Accelerating ethylene oxide catalyst innovation through high-throughput testing Avantium
Cover The steam cracker in Port Arthur, Texas, transforms crude oil and natural gas into chemical building blocks for many consumer and industrial goods. Courtesy: BASF
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