PTQ Q3 2023 Issue

Q3 (Jul, Aug, Sep) 2023 www.digitalrefining.com ptq PETROLEUM TECHNOLOGY QUARTERLY

3 Robust prospects in fuels and petrochemicals Rene Gonzalez

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13 Improve energy efficiency of your hydrocracking unit Kiran Ladkat, Jan De Ren and Kiran Kashibhatla Honeywell UOP

19 Focused revamp increases diesel and HVGO recovery Scott Golden, Tony Barletta and Steve White Process Consulting Services Ben C Miller CITGO

33 Proactively preventing reactor runaway events Jeff Johns Becht

39 Olefins production pathways with reduced CO2 emissions Christopher R Dziedziak and John J Murphy The Catalyst Group (TCG) 49 Using hydrogen in fuel to eliminate CO2 emissions in fired heaters Luke Glashan Wood 55 Structured catalyst reactor system for steam methane reforming Sanjiv Ratan and Bruce Boisture ZoneFlow Reactor Technologies LLC William Blasko and Wolfgang Spieker Honeywell UOP Florent Minette and Juray De Wilde Université Catholique de Louvain

62 Purifying and upgrading of waste plastics pyrolysis oils Artem Vityuk and Sanaz Norouzi BASF Corporation 66 Maximising renewable feed co-processing at an FCC Stefan Brandt and Drey Holder W. R. Grace & Co. Gary Lee Parkland

70 Spent caustic treatment and reuse James G Aiello Merichem Company

75 Predicting hydrotreater performance while co-processing vegetable oil Eelko Brevoord Catalyst Intelligence Tiago Vilela Avantium 81 Debottlenecking product recovery using product pair distillation: Part II David Kockler Dividing Wall Distillation and Separations Consulting, LLC

91 Reducing emissions while increasing refinery margin Bernd Van Den Bossche Qpinch

97 Technology in Action

Cover Crude/Vacuum Unit at CITGO Petroleum Corp. Lake Charles Refining Complex

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