Friday, March 23, 2012

Versus: ePTQ and DigitalRefining

“Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.” -- Jack Lynch  (Irish statesman, 1917-1999)

PTQ-Petroleum Technology Quarterly (one of my favorite technology magazines) now has TWO sites … www.eptq.com (the original) and www.digitalrefining.com (the newbie.)

Here is the description of DigitalRefining when you visit the more familiar ePTQ Web …

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We're delighted to announce the launch of a further digital facility to complement ePTQ.com.

digitalrefining.com provides a constantly growing database of company information, literature, news and, above all, articles relating to all aspects of refining technology. Have a look yourself. Here's a small sample of the wealth of material already available on it:

Retrofits to handle high-viscosity crudes
Hydrogen management in a GHG-constrained refinery
Choosing a selective hydrogenation system
Minimising FCC slurry exchanger fouling
Understanding basic principles of flow calculations
Advances in delayed coking heat transfer equipment design
Hydrogen generation for modern refineries
Managing training simulator projects

And, in addition, digitalrefining provides a complete three year digital archive of PTQ. So if you've missed any issues of PTQ since 2009 just go to the magazine section and view them there.

Source: www.eptq.com

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The two sites do overlap … but there are significant differences.  Here are a couple …

  • Q&A (www.eptq.com) … this invaluable forum (see below) appears to be absent from the new DigitalRefining site
  • PTQ 3-year Archive (www.digitalrefining.com) … if you want older issues of PTQ, you won’t find them on ePTQ.com … but you will find the last three years of issues on DigitalRefining 
Tip: ePTQ versus DigitalRefining? I recommend you register with both sites.  Registration is free.  And the quality of information is so high that it is worth your effort to register twice.
 

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