Monday, February 27, 2017

I Love a Good Quote: A Google Search Tip

What a difference a simple pair of quotes can make.

Take, for example, a Google search for sulfur removal. That search phrase results in a hit count of nearly 21 million (20,800,000.)

Compare this to the results of the same search in quotes: "sulfur removal."  The hit count is a much more manageable number: 179,000.

Not only that,  but you will be browsing a list of much higher quality.

Try it.  You'll like it.

Friday, February 10, 2017

Call 4 Papers: 4th Refining India Conference



“I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.” -- Beryl Pfizer

The 4th Refining India Conference (http://refiningindia.com/ ) is coming up.  It will be staged in New Delhi, India, 18-19 September 2017. The great thing about this notice is that you have time to respond to their Call for Papers.

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4th Refining India Conference
Call For Papers
India’s leading international conference for the oil refining and petrochemical industry invites your company’s submission for presentation at 2017’s event.
Plans have just been announced to develop India’s biggest refining and petrochemicals project in Maharashtra state. This flagship development confirms the nation’s role as the world’s most dynamic innovator and builder for petroleum processing.
Meanwhile, Indian refiners’ deadline to deliver the next stage of clean fuels standards, Bharat Stage-VI, is fast approaching.  And India’s ratification of the Paris climate change agreement will demand the highest standards of energy efficiency in producing these pollution-busting fuels.
India’s refiners and petrochemicals manufacturers are hungry for the latest and best of technology to match its ambitious targets for expansion to meet burgeoning demand and for rising economic performance targets. Refining India 2017 will be the key opportunity this coming year to promote your company’s contribution to these objectives to senior managers from the nation’s major refining and petrochemicals companies.
Preferred subjects for presentation at Refining India 2017 include:
Meeting advanced clean fuels targets
Integrating production of petrochemicals and fuels
Being flexible with the crude slate
Raising energy efficiency and meeting climate change targets
Overcoming corrosion and fouling issues
Transforming the workplace through IIOT
India as a base for international research
In the first instance, email your proposed title and abstract to:
presentations@refiningindia.com (if you are a supplier or based outside India)
or refiningindia@idsindia.org (if you are an Indian based producer or EPC)
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Sponsors for the conference include …

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Crystaphase
A lot happens inside a reactor—and not all of it good. Complex interactions, distribution patterns, suspended particles, and catalyst poisons all converge to form a river of lost profitability. Crystaphase can help. To optimize catalysis, we apply a very specialized science, supported by state-of-the-art laboratories and passionate expertise. We methodically analyze samples, along with your current system, then design customized and replicable solutions to clear your path to greater reactor performance.
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Jacobs Comprimo
As a leader in gas treating and sulphur recovery technology, Comprimo Sulfur Solutions provides engineering, procurement and construction services to gas treating and sulphur recovery plants around the world. Clients are looking for ways to add new units; increase their sulphur recovery efficiency; add more processing capacity, through gas treating enrichment or oxygen enrichment; and conduct sulphur degassing. Our sulphur solutions technology and expertise provides total project delivery for gas sweetening, sulphur recovery, and tail gas treatment plants. For every technology we offer, our goal is to recover the most sulphur while consuming the the least amount of energy at the lowest investment cost.
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Baker Hughes
Our Downstream Chemicals group’s chemical programmes and services address processing, water management, and finished product quality challenges in petroleum refining. We reduce cost by addressing needs and designing, implementing, and monitoring specialty chemical treatment programs that improve profitability and reliability. Offerings include process emulsion breaking, corrosion, fouling, and foam-control technologies. Plus, we have programmes for treating and managing cooling water, boilers, raw water, and wastewater treatment.
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Alfa Laval
Alfa Laval is today a world leader within the key technology areas of heat transfer, separation and fluid handling. Our company was founded on a single brilliant invention and innovation remains at the heart of everything we do.
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Shell Global Solutions
Shell Global Solutions provides technical services and licensed technologies. What sets us apart from some other licensors and consultants is the knowledge we have gained from our corporate heritage as the owner and operator of large, complex industrial process plants. Our technologies and business solutions reflect our many years of experience in designing, building and operating such facilities.
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ExxonMobil
ExxonMobil licenses downstream and chemical manufacturing technologies and offers catalysts that provide significant value to customers. As one of the world’s largest refiners and petrochemical manufacturers, ExxonMobil has extensive engineering and operational experience with these technologies and catalysts.
We offer best-in-class technologies and catalysts for making lubricants and other petrochemical products with growing market demand. These include technology for the manufacture of high quality lube base oils and premium petroleum fuels; a catalytic technology that produces gasoline from methanol derived from natural gas, coal or biomass; catalytic processes for xylenes production; and technologies to produce ethyl benzene and cumene.
Our solutions help manufacturers implement best practices that can contribute to cost reduction, margin improvement, environmental compliance, reliability and safety.
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Delta Controls
Delta Controls temperature sensors reliably protect a Claus thermal reaction furnace and its refractory lining from excessive temperatures. The sensors are specifically designed to provide the utmost resistance to the severe and demanding operating conditions common to the process (corrosive environment, thermal shock, process upsets, very high temperature, vibration and even shifting refractory).
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RezEl
The ReZel Catalysts Corporation headquartered at Leshan in Sichuan Province, the centre of China’s rich rare earth elements area, is the third largest catalyst manufacturer in China, after only Sinopec and PetroChina, in the production of Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) catalysts as well as Zeolites and Isomerization catalysts.
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Axens
Axens is an international provider of process Technologies Licensees , Catalysts, Adsorbents and Services (technical assistance, consulting) to the Refining, Petrochemical, Gas and Alternative Fuels industries. The main scope of Axens’ business is focused on the conversion of Oil, Gas, Biomass and Coal to fuels and major petrochemical intermediates. Improving the performance of our clients and helping them to be more successful constitute our only mission.
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Duiker Combustion Engineers
Duiker Combustion Engineers is an engineering company specialized in process combustion solutions. Our core values are – performance, reliability, and safety and we express these in our every project. Our main office is located in Wateringen, The Netherlands and we have a sales office located in Beijing, China. Furthermore we are represented by local agents in various strategic locations around the world.
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Industrial Ceramics
Industrial Ceramics Limited has been specializing in the manufacture of refractory boiler tube inserts (ferrules) for SRU's, WHB's, methane reformers, and other specialty ceramic shapes for use in diverse high temperature and corrosive applications for over 53 years. Consistent quality, dependable support and delivery, and innovative solutions have enabled us to expand our business world wide
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