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001. Texas Refiner expands aromatics capacity 20% with staged revamp
002. Engineering Fundamentals for Operators - Practical Distillation Fundamentals
003. Safety Results Mirror Expectations at New Grassroots Ethylene Plant
004. Environmental Concerns Addressed in the Design of a New Ethylene Plant
005. Cooling Tower Monitoring and Environmental Compliance006. Resolving Distillation Equipment Problems
007. Ethylene Unit Test Run Planning and Execution
008. Ethylene Unit Saturator and Dilution Steam Generators Challenges
013. Ethylene Unit Pyrolysis Furnace Opportunities & Strategic Improvements014. Increase Fractionation Efficiency: Propylene Fractionation Example
015. Molecular Sieve Applications016. Ethylene Unit Cracked Gas Compressor Case Studies on Fouling
017. Flare Safety Overview
018. Flow Phenomena in Staged and Non Staged Distillation Equipment
019. Advances in Cracking Furnace Technology
020. FCC Catalyst Selection021. Refinery Catalyst Workshop
022. Revising an Ethylene Unit Feed Saturator
023. Career Guidelines for Young and Old Graduates
024. Pyrolysis Furnace Technical Overview
026. Improving the Reliability of High Heat Flux Reboilers
027. The Design and Performance of a Packed Benzene Toluene Splitter
028. Anti Fouling Tray Technology
029. Use of Process Simulation for Distillation Design026. The Importance of Thermodynamics on Process Simulation Modeling
027. Lower FCC Catalyst Resistivities raise Precipitator Efficiencies
028. Refiners have several options to overcome FCCU opacity limitations
029. Communicating Effectively Among Engineers
030. Waste-heat recovery: Weighing in the environmental Factor
036. Spiral Heat Exchangers Preheat High Solids Black Liquor Without plugging
037. Targeting East Asian Markets038. Analysis of NOx Reduction Techniques
039. Partial Catalytic Hydrogenation of Acetylene
040. Production of Polyethylene Using Gas Fluidized Bed Reactor
042. Allowances and Credits: Components of a Sound NOx Reduction Strategy
043. Radioisotope Technology - Benefits & Limitations in Packed Tower Diagnostics
047. Physical separation devices for Ethylene Plants
051. Extractive Distillation for the Separation of Benzene and Cyclohexane Mixture
053. Targeting the Minimum Water Rate Using Water Cascade Analysis Technique
061. Overview on C2 and C3 Selective Hydrogenation in Ethylene Plants
063. Hydrogen Sulfide Poisoning
064. Distributed Distillation with Heat Integration
068. An Overview of Oxygenates in Ethylene Units
069. Chemical Engineering Review Paper
070. Best Practices in Prevention and Suppression of Metal Packing Fires
073. Radioisotope Technology - Troubleshooting Packed Beds in Vacuum Distillation
077. A DESIGN REVIEW OF STEAM STRIPPING COLUMNS FOR WASTEWATER SERVICE
078. Trouble Shooting an Ethylene Quench Water Tower
079. Design Guidelines for Extractive Distillation Columns
081. Succeed at Plant Debottlenecking
082. Measure and Access Maldistribution in Industrial Packed Towers
083. Multiple Down comer Fouling Paper
084. Utility Management for Process and Power Industries
085. Hydrogen Production Optimization in Industry
086. Strategies to Measure Implementation of Health Programs
087. Ethylene Plant Safety Incidents
088. Energy Savings in Steam Systems
089. Integrate Process Simulation and Process Synthesis
090. Engineering Education Goals; Building Tomorrow’s Leaders
091. Distillation Column Internals Related Process Intensification Developments
093. Setting Targets for Water and Hydrogen Networks using Cascade Analysis
094. SYNTHESIS OF MASS EXCHANGE NETWORKS FOR BATCH PROCESS SYSTEMS. PART 3
095. Resource Conservation and Waste Minimization for Property Networks
096. Water Minimization by Pinch Technology
097. Synthesis of mass exchange network for batch processes—Part I: Utility targeting
098. Synthesis of mass exchange network for batch processes—Part II: Minimum units target
099. CASCADE ANALYSIS TECHNIQUE FOR TARGETING PROPERTY-BASED MATERIAL REUSE NETWORK
100. Maximizing Water Recovery through Water Pinch Technology
101. ENGINEERING ASPECTS OF HERBAL AND PHYTOCHEMICAL PROCESSING
102. Modeling a pharmaceutical production process utilizing a batch process simulator
103. PILOT SCALE MODELING AND DESIGN FOR THE SEPARATION OF FATTY ACID MIXTURE
104. Modeling and Simulation of Used Lubricant Oil Re-refining Process
105. PHYTOCHEMICAL PROCESSING: THE NEXT EMERGING FIELD IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
106. Ammonia in a Steam Cracking Plant
107. Upgrade of a Tail-End Acetylene Converter
108. Cascade Analysis for setting the Targets for Resource Conservation Part 1
109. Cascade Analysis for setting the Targets for Resource Conservation Part 2
111. Design Guidelines for Safety in Piping Networks
113. Safety Editorial - Rough Road Ahead
115. Gamma-Ray Computer-Aided Tomography of Industrial Packed Columns
118. FACTORS INFLUENCING VAPOR CROSSFLOW CHANNELING
119. FCC Debutanizer Revamp for Flexibility and Additional Capacity
124. Integrity Management of the Water Injection Networks
125. Effect of Aquifer Dump flood on the Reservoir Scale Tendency and Subsurface Equipment Corrosion
126. Distillation Column Internals Related Process Intensification Developments
403. Design Guidelines for Utilizing Distillation Simulation Software in the Field
404. Design Guidelines for Distillation Revamps
405. Design Guidelines for Ethylene Quench Towers
406. Design Guidelines for Chemical Treatments in Distillation Columns
408. Design Guidelines for Extractive Distillation Columns
409. Design Guidelines for BTX Revamps
410. Troubleshooting Practice in the Refinery
411. Benchmarking a Waste Water Treatment Systems
412. BTX Extractive Distillation Capacity Increased by Enhanced Packing Distributors
413. Ethylene Unit Operations Management Concepts416 Design Guideline for Propylene Splitter Distillation Columns
502. Water and Waste Water Treatment Definitions
503. Petroleum Related Definitions