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Mechanical Engineering | April 2, 2025 Scaling Smarter: How Advanced Modeling Accelerates... Process scale-up is the effort to take a chemical process that works at a smaller scale and design a version… Read More
Mechanical Engineering | March 25, 2025 Life Management of PSA Vessels – Part 3: Life Ma... This is the third and final part of the blog trilogy relating to life management of pressure swing absorber (PSA)… Read More
Mechanical Engineering | February 19, 2025 Navigating Data Uncertainty in Fitness-for-Service... In engineering assessments, accurate and reliable data is the foundation for sound decision-making. Read More
Mechanical Engineering | December 11, 2024 ASME B31.3 Process Piping: Changes in the 2024 Edi... The new edition of the ASME B31.3 Process Piping Code is scheduled to be issued December 27, 2024. As usual,… Read More
Mechanical Engineering | November 6, 2024 Installation of Monolithic Refractory and Resultin... Monolithic refractory linings are a necessity of operating a variety of furnaces, boilers, and reactors in the refinery. Despite their… Read More
Mechanical Engineering | September 11, 2024 Life Management of PSA Vessels – Part 2: Inspect... In the first part of our blog series on the Life Management of Pressure Swing Absorbers (PSA), we discussed the… Read More
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Mechanical Engineering | June 12, 2024 What is a Confined Space?... So you’re staring into a space. It looks a bit tight in there. But is it a confined space? According… Read More
Mechanical Engineering | June 3, 2024 CFD Modeling of a Stoker Boiler... Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling has been widely used to design and/or retrofit boilers in the power generation and other… Read More
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Mechanical Engineering | March 18, 2024 Redesign of the Heating System for a Sulfur Storag... Storage tanks are widely used in refineries and sour gas processing plants for temporary storage of molten sulfur produced in… Read More
