Process Technology | October 15, 2025 How to Implement an Operations Excellence Manageme... As we discussed in Part One and Part Two of this series, an operations excellence management system (OEMS) that is… Read More
Process Technology | October 8, 2025 Best Practices for Chemical Cleaning Hydroprocessi... Everyone knows a chemical cleaning vendor, and you may have met many different vendors who offer a variety of chemicals… Read More
Capital Projects | September 23, 2025 Why Responsiveness Is So Critical in Oil & Ga... By Jean-Gaël Le Floc'h with contributions from Marisa Fedele A recently replaced FCC regenerator develops a hot spot. The engineering… Read More
Process Technology | August 13, 2025 Core Components of an Effective OEMS in High-Hazar... In Part One of this series, we discussed organizing your business documentation within the framework of an operations excellence management… Read More
Turnaround, Maintenance & Reliability | July 16, 2025 How Seconded Experts Support High-Stakes Projects ... Refineries and petrochemical facilities are no strangers to complex challenges. Whether it’s a major turnaround, a new unit coming online,… Read More
Process Technology | June 11, 2025 Why an Operations Excellence Management System (OE... High-hazard industries – like oil and gas, chemical manufacturing, nuclear power, and mining – deal with processes and materials that… Read More
Strategic Business Planning | May 7, 2025 Energy in a Pinch: How Did We Get Here?... The 1970s was a period of spiraling energy prices, driven largely by the Arab oil embargo of 1973 and the… Read More
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
Process Technology | March 19, 2025 Preparation of Slurries: Powder Wettability and Ot... In this article I write about process technologies for preparation of slurries, AKA “solids in suspension,” and the considerations that… Read More
Process Technology | January 28, 2025 Faster Reactor Cooldowns... One of the most frustrating situations to endure is the slow cooldown of a reactor (or series of reactors) when… Read More
Process Technology | August 27, 2024 Inline Mixers for Chemical Processes... Inline mixers can be defined as a configuration where the materials to be mixed are flowing continuously through the device.… 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
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
Mechanical Engineering | March 4, 2024 Vortex Shedding in a Tee with a Closed Branch... Vortex shedding is a flow-induced phenomenon that takes place when there is a structural element in the flow path, such… Read More
Process Technology | February 22, 2024 Under Pressure... Hydroprocessing Heat Exchanger Fouling due to Di-olefin Polymerization Over the past few months, I have received several questions about heat… Read More
