PTQ Q2 2023 Issue

Q2 (Apr, May, Jun) 2023 www.digitalrefining.com ptq PETROLEUM TECHNOLOGY QUARTERLY

5 Refinery of the future Rene Gonzalez

7 ptq&a 16 Refinery of the future: bankable, flexible, and sustainable Keith Couch Honeywell UOP 21 Co-processing alternative feedstocks through the FCC Oliver Dobson, Mike Watson, Wayne Armstrong, Marie Goret-Rana, Matthew Ryder and Paul Diddams Johnson Matthey 27 Mitigating FCC gas plant impacts when increasing reactor LPG yields Darrell Campbell, Tony Barletta and Scott Golden Process Consulting Services 41 Importance of effective and efficient data analysis and visualisation Philippa Hayward KBC (A Yokogawa Company) 47 Debottlenecking product recovery using product pair distillation: Part I David Kockler Dividing Wall Distillation and Separations Consulting 55 Kinetic model for TGU hydrogenation reactors: Part 2 Catalyst model validation Michael A Huffmaster Independent Consultant Prashanth Chandran, Nathan A Hatcher, Daryl R Jensen and Ralph H Weiland Optimized Gas Treating, Inc. 63 Unrevealed additional WASA additive performance at European refinery Rosen Dinkov, Ivo Andreev, Dicho Stratiev, Ilian Kolev and Miroslav Atanasov LUKOIL Neftohim Burgas AD Katarzyna Grabowska Brenntag Oil & Gas Research and Application Center

Cobbin Mackenzie Infineum Business and Technology Centre 69 Minimising unwanted coke formation in FCC operations Warren Letzsch Warren Letzsch Consulting PC 75 Digital platform for intelligent operation of fired heaters Grandhi Srivardhan, Rupam Mukherjee and Shilpa Singh Engineers India Limited 81 From thermal maldistribution to cycle length extension Ersev Dağ, Elif Kızlap and Enes Cındır Tüpraş Mbugua Gitau Shell Catalysts & Technologies 87 Profiting from the lubricants market Marcio Wagner da Silva Process Engineer 93 Energy saving with tube inserts for heat exchangers Nicolas Aubin Petroval 97 Anti-fouling additives to improve heavy oil processing Darius Remesat University of Calgary Edward Maharajh Energy Technical Resources Youssef Elgahawy Suncor Energy Justin Martin Western Research Institute 103 Technology in Action

Cover In many cases, the refinery of the future involves process facilities already seen in many plants today, but enhanced with AI/ML-based systems operating across the enterprise.

©2023. The entire content of this publication is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means – electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise – without the prior permission of the copyright owner. The opinions and views expressed by the authors in this publication are not necessarily those of the editor or publisher and while every care has been taken in the preparation of all material included in Petroleum Technology Quarterly and its supplements the publisher cannot be held responsible for any statements, opinions or views or for any inaccuracies.