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World News
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The downside of demand
Amy Faulconbridge, T.A. Cook, Germany, discusses the impact
of cheaper oil on natural gas and trends in the European energy
industry
(18)
Keeping a cap on carbon
Will Leonard, Chemical, Oil and Gas UK, ABB Limited, explains
how the use of carbon capture technologies can help
companies to reduce emissions, while building a new era of
industrial enterprise for the UK
(25)
Computational analysis of FCCs
Ravindra Aglave, Oleh Baran, Dimitrios Papoulias and Alex Read,
CD-adapco, USA, discuss the critical role of computational
fluid and particle dynamics analysis in refining operations
(31)
Innovative analysis
Martin Glittenberg, LAR Process Analysers AG, Germany,
explains how total organic carbon analysis can optimise
industrial processes
(36)
Worth every nickel
Lena Wegrelius, Outokumpu, Sweden, discusses the benefits of
high performance and specialty stainless steels in harsh oil and
gas and chemical processes
(43)
Controlled combustion
Arthur Groenbos, Yokogawa Europe, discusses tunable diode
laser gas analysis for combustion management in fired heaters
(50)
Making sense of moisture
Andy Benton, Michell Instruments, UK, explains why the
success of laser based moisture analysers in natural gas
production and transmission is unlikely to spread across the
hydrocarbon processing industries
(57)
Keeping up quality
Samuel Blaser, AST Turbo AG, Switzerland, discusses quality
challenges on large rotating equipment turnarounds, and the
economic benefits of a structured QA/QC approach
(63)
Seal it up
Christian Hold, Hoerbiger Ventilwerke GmbH & Co. KG, Austria,
presents a revolutionary new technology for eliminating leaks
from reciprocating compressor packings
(71)
Am I safe now?
Ville Kähkönen, Metso, Finland, explains why a comprehensive
safety evaluation for emergency shutdown valves is essential to
reliable plant operation
(76)
Cracking technology
Arsalan Ahmed, Crane ChemPharma & Energy, USA, discusses
process challenges for fluidised catalytic cracking, and how
each of these can be mitigated with proper valve selection
(85)
2015 Preview
Hydrocarbon Engineering
previews a selection of companies
active within the downstream hydrocarbon processing industry
that will be exhibiting at ACHEMA 2015
(112)
15 facts on...
This month we give you 15 facts on Germany
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Seal For Life Industries is a leading partner to the oil and gas
industries with 60 years of experience in providing solutions
and services for the life long corrosion protection/prevention
and sealing of critical infrastructure both onshore and offshore.
SFL’s range of STOPAQ selfhealing ‘visco-elastic’ systems,
Covalence heat shrink sleeve technology, Polyken Fireproofing
Tape and Powercrete liquid epoxies are specified for numerous
and varied applications including submarine pipeline field joint
coatings, protection of subsea and topside structures and tanks,
protection under insulation and sealing of J-Tubes, Risers.
June 2015
Volume 20 Number 6
ISSN 1468-9340
