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3 Identifying slug flow key to successful debutaniser revamp Conversion of a stripper tower to debutaniser operation shows how external piping in slug flow regime can negatively impact a tower Daryl W Hanson Valero 9 Yield and energy improvement in atmospheric and vacuum unit Impact of BS III diesel specifications on legacy AVU configuration called for optimising fractionation performance through improved mass transfer efficiency Rahul Srivastava, Manish Rohit, and Harshit Budholiya Indian Oil Corporation Ltd Giuseppe Mosca Sulzer Italy Srl Unmesh Bhagwat, Mukesh Gupta, and Amar Patil Sulzer India Private Limited 15 Cracking the code: FCC turnaround lifecycle best practices – Part 2 The common FCC equipment and recommended engineering practices are reviewed, followed by unit start-up and turnaround report generation Ben Ellebrecht Phillips 66 Wood River
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23 Multi-point temperature mapping of steam methane reformer tubes A retrofit field deployment of ultrasonic waveguide skin temperature sensors in a refinery hydrogen plant Balaji Nambi and Nishanth Raja XYMA Analytics Avoid corrosion failures in refinery process equipment High-velocity thermal spray alloy cladding mitigates corrosion in ammonia scrubbers and amine columns, improving asset integrity and reducing lifecycle costs Shinji Masuzaki Integrated Global Services (IGS) 35 Operational problem solving in heat exchangers and air coolers Selected case studies of strategies developed for resolving heat exchanger operational problems Sadhna Singh and Harshita Gupta Engineers India Limited Cover OMV operates Austria’s only refinery in Schwechat. Today it is one of the largest and most modern inland refineries in Europe and has integrated petrochemical production. Its total annual refinery capacity is 9.6 million tons of crude oil. Courtesy: OMV
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