PTQ Q4 2023 Issue

Q4 (Oct, Nov, Dec) 2023 www.digitalrefining.com ptq PETROLEUM TECHNOLOGY QUARTERLY

3 Cost factors to consider in 2024 Rene Gonzalez 5 ptq&a

19 An economically attractive carbon capture solution for FCC Jan de Ren, Sakthivelan Durai, Raul Zavala and Erick Bennet Honeywell UOP 29 Catalyst testing for renewable fuels and chemicals Giada Innocenti, Kai Dannenbauer, Jochen Berg, Xavier Sanz and Ioan-Teodor Trotus hte GmbH 35 Transforming refineries’ opportunities through FCC Lucas Dorazio and James Fu BASF Corporation 43 Crude to chemicals: Part 1 – The basic concept of crudes Kandasamy M Sundaram, Ujjal K Mukherjee, Pedro M Santos and Ronald M Venner Lummus Technology 51 Olefin purification: Why selecting the right adsorbent matters Florence Pennetreau and Todd Burkes Evonik Catalysts Steffen Görlich PCK Refinery 57 Closed-loop sampling systems can lower fugitive emission levels Matt Dixon Swagelok Company 63 Identifying high catalyst losses Warren Letzsch Warren Letzsch Consulting PC 69 Simulation VGO and waste lubricating/cooking oil co-hydroprocessing Mohamed S El-Sawy, Fatma H Ashour and Ahmed Refaat Cairo University Tarek M Aboul-Fotouh Al-Azhar University Samia A Hanafi Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute 79 Big changes in the US octane market George Hoekstra Hoekstra Trading LLC 85 Managing life cycle assessment and life cycle thinking in refining Berkem Ç, Sarp Akarsu M and Esenboğa E E Tüpraş 89 Optimising fouled distillation units Soun Ho Lee Valero Energy Corporation 97 Estimating natural gas demand at a petrochemical complex Uğurcan Tozar, Mert Akçin, Murathan Bağdat, Dila Gökçe Kuzu, Nesip Dalmaz and Kemal Burçak Kaplan SOCAR Türkiye 103 Assessing LNG feed gas depressurisation Tek Sutikno Fluor Enterprises 109 Enabling safe FCC unit operational changes through ionic modelling Cristian Spica OLI Systems, Inc. 115 Control corrosion in refineries and petrochemical plants Berthold Otzisk Kurita Europe Mohamed Hudhaifa Kurita AquaChemie 119 Technology in Action

Cover World-scale petrochemical facilities such as the Formosa Point Comfort plant along the Texas Coast continue to push the envelope targeting energy efficiency and GHG reductions.

Photo courtesy of Lummus

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