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    Refcomm's Podcast

    Refinery insider discussion, information, education, and lessons learned. An informative podcast focused on oil and gas refining and petrochemical operations. It is geared toward those who work directly in plants or service the industry (equipment and service providers). Our mission is to share knowledge about operations, engineering, safety, reliability, and profitability to make our industry have "More Production, Less Risk."
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    Episodes (16)

    Optimizing the Furnace - Excess Oxygen and Draft

    Optimizing the Furnace - Excess Oxygen and Draft

    Host: Evan Hyde

    This podcast is about furnaces and how draft and excess oxygen can affect the efficiency of the furnace, especially in regards to delayed coking units. 

    Furnaces should run with 2-4% excess oxygen. Anything below that will lead to increased heather fouling. If it's too high, there is afterburn. Evan discusses specifics of these issues; safety methods when monitoring the furnace; and how to determine best efficiency parameters for your furnace.

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    Refinery Operations News

    Refinery Operations News
    Host: Evan Hyde
    Guests: Rene Gonzales with RefineryOperations.com
     
    - Changes in the refining industry with USA export ban changes
    - Modularization best practices for more efficient PHA, PSSR, MOC, and project management
    - Rene’s highlights from CERA week 2017
    - Feedstock flexibility
    - Less urgency in environmental regulation changes - Renewable Identification Numbers (RIN)
    - Zero emissions and unit revamp target project potential
     
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    Modeling Crude Impacts In the Refinery

    Modeling Crude Impacts In the Refinery
    Host: Evan Hyde
    Guests: Dave Geddes
     
    - Mr. Geddes background, he managed PIMS group at Bechtel for 15yrs. For the past 15yrs, he has been doing feasibility studies for new refinery projects and updating refinery LP systems. 
    - Crude oil supplies and characteristics with a focus on traditional and nontraditional crudes, naphthenic vs parafinic crudes and properties. 
    - What is an assays and how differences can be expected between the predicted vs actual in the model and in the plant. 
    - Certain assays vary over time over time - which crudes vary the most and why?
    - Impacts on key refining processes including mischaracterization of yields for novel feedstocks. For example how paraffinic cracking yields are better for FCC but naphthenic are better for HDC
    - Training at Refcomm > Petroleum Refining Economics
     
    Links
     
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    Benefits of the Bucket Brigade

    Benefits of the Bucket Brigade
    Host: Evan Hyde
    Guests: Gary Pitman with Coking.com
     
    - What is it? A weekly gathering of all the people associated with the unit at a fixed time, no exceptions. 
    - Everyone means operators, engineers, maintenance crew, turnaround planners, contractor project teams, inspectors, even procurement. 
    - Get a bucket, walk the unit (or a specific area within), collect anything that’s not supposed to be there. Bring the buckets to a designated area. Collate or dump what you find. But discuss what you see with your peers. 
    - Breaks down barriers, builds communication, cleans the unit, and improves operation - all for the price of 1 hour per week and a few buckets. 
     
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    enApril 17, 2017

    Got Mass? Coriolis Flow Meters

    Got Mass? Coriolis Flow Meters
    - Wikipedia on how mass flow meters work, do the twist
    - Very useful delayed coker applications - get a handle on material balance and recycle
    - Heater charge and fresh feed
    - Product streams
    - Antifoam injection
     
    Some companies who sell these devices include:
     
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    enApril 17, 2017

    Slide Your Coke Drum Cracking Problems Away

    Slide Your Coke Drum Cracking Problems Away
    Guests: Dr. Mahmod Samman, Houston Engineering Solutions (HES)
     
    - Drum skirt inspection image (from Linkedin, Gowrisanthosh Palika)
    - HES drum patent US8905260
    - Drum fabrication information from Sumitomo at Refcomm Rio 2009
    - AMSE Pressure Vessel and Piping Conference (PVP-2017) - Hawaii
     
    Attend Dr. Samman’s training 
     
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    enApril 17, 2017

    Voices of Refcomm 2015

    Voices of Refcomm 2015
    Guests: 
    1. Tom Kline with Structural Technologies
    2. Sam Clemens with BOC Water Hydraulics 
     
    - Check out this case study of Structural Technologies in action with a massive DCU tabletop and pad rebuild. 
     
    - Link to BOC’s brochure about their decoking valve technology. 
     
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    enApril 17, 2017

    Gun Drills and Operator Preparedness

    Gun Drills and Operator Preparedness
    Guests: Gary Pitman with Coking.com
     
    - Gun drills started in the military around cannons. It’s used in the airline industry and some refineries. 
    - Approach it like a zone defense in sports. What the heater charge pump trips, where do you go? 
    - Some specific examples like high-high level responses, boiler feed water pump trips, or coker in-drum proximity systems
     
     
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    Building Reliability Practices Across Industries

    Building Reliability Practices Across Industries
    Guests: John Mleczewski, Linde Group
     
    - Common concepts of reliability practices from refining, chemical, and industrial gas separation plants
    - Cultural aspects of building an organizational commitment to a reliability based culture
    - Example of how reliability extends beyond operations and engineering to procurement. It really takes the village. 
    - Specific examples for operator rounds for overhung centrifugal pumps
     
     
     
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    enApril 17, 2017

    Control Valve Troubleshooting

    Control Valve Troubleshooting
    Host: Evan Hyde
     
    The podcast pertains to Sliding Stem Pneumatic Control Valves. When a plant is operational there are numerous things that could cause control valve problems: 
    - Hunting Valve 
    - Positioner problems
    - Handjack positions
    - Leaks
    - Packing problems
    - Valve internal problems
    - Flow problems
     
    In summary, a good troubleshooting process looks like this:
    1. Visually Inspect for loose fittings, leaks, general condition
    2. Place valve in manual and verify stability
    3. Return to auto control and monitor
    4. Check positioner gauges and feedback arm
    5. Analyze DCS setpoint, pv, and output
    6. Repeat as needed to get the valve working…..
     
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    enMarch 22, 2017

    Sludge Injection

    Sludge Injection

    This relates to a process and apparatus for injecting sludge into the vapor phase of a coking process to vaporize the sludge while minimizing the carryover of solids and coke to downstream equipment. The process and apparatus are applicable to use in delayed coking operations and are useful on various sludges which can be found in refineries or petrochemical plants.

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    enDecember 29, 2015

    General Outline

    General Outline

    The Refining Community podcast mission statement, introductions of your host Evan Hyde and Gary Pitman, an in invitation to contribute, a suggestion on nut runners and motor operated valves.

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    enDecember 28, 2015
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