Hydrocarbon Processing - December 2022 - 7

Editorial
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LEE NICHOLS, VP, CONTENT/EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Lee.Nichols@HydrocarbonProcessing.com
The Top Projects winners of 2022
have been announced
Each year, Hydrocarbon Processing
honors the top refining and petrochemical
projects of the year. These capital investments
have significantly contributed
to the expansion of the hydrocarbon
processing industry and have been instrumental
in providing new refined and
petrochemical products to traditional
and emerging markets.
Using Gulf Energy Information's
Global Energy Infrastructure database,
our editors select several capital projects
in each sector as finalists for the Top
Projects award. Once selected, readers of
Hydrocarbon Processing can vote on the
top project in each sector.
This year, the editors announced 10
nominees-five refining and five petrochemical
projects-for this prestigious
award. This year's nominees represented
nearly $50 B in capital investments,
more than 600,000 bpd in new refining
capacity and more than 11 MMtpy in
additional petrochemicals production.
Over the past 2 mos, hundreds of
readers voted online to select the top
refining and petrochemical projects of
2022. Unlike previous years, both categories
had ties. Despite extending voting
times, the outcomes in both categories
remained the same. Therefore, for the
first time ever, there are two Top Project
winners in both the refining and petrochemicals
categories.
Top Project: Petrochemicals. The following
projects have been selected as the
Top Projects in the petrochemicals category
in 2022:
* LyondellBasell's propylene
oxide (PO) and tertiary butyl
alcohol (TBA) complex
(Channelview, Texas, U.S.):
The nearly $2.5-B project consists
of two plants to produce 1 MMtpy
of TBA and 470,000 tpy of PO.
Once completed in Q1 2023, the
complex will be the largest
PO/TBA complex in the world.
* Long Son Petrochemicals
complex (Ba Ria-Vung Tau
province, Vietnam): The $5.4B
complex will produce nearly
1 MMtpy of ethylene, as well
as propylene, polypropylene
and polyethylene, once
operational. Despite a fire
at the facility in September,
the complex's completion
is still scheduled for 2023.
Top Project: Refining. The following
projects have been selected as the Top
Projects in the refining category in 2022:
* Indian Oil Corp. Ltd.'s Barauni
refinery expansion (BR9)
project (Begusarai District,
Bihar, India): The nearly
$1.8-B project will expand the
Barauni refinery by 3 MMtpy
to 9 MMtpy. Once completed
in Q2 2023, the upgraded refinery
will produce transportation fuels
that adhere to India's Bharat
Stage-6 fuel standard.
* Neste's Singapore refinery
expansion project (Singapore):
The company is investing nearly
$1.5 B to expand its Singapore
refinery. The project-to be
completed by Q2 2023-
will add 1 MMtpy of sustainable
aviation fuels production,
as well as renewable raw
materials for polymers and
chemicals production.
Hydrocarbon Processing would like
to congratulate the winners of the 2022
Top Projects awards, as well as its global
readership that participated in voting for
this year's winners.
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
14
Catalysts.
New catalyst technologies are
advancing refining and petrochemical
processing. This month's Special Focus
section features the latest catalyst
technologies that are helping refiners
produce clean fuels while adhering
to strict emissions regulations.
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Process Optimization.
State-of-the-art sulfur
recovery technologies utilize the
modified Claus process as well as some
extension technology on the tail gas.
This article details a proprietary sulfur
recovery process, whereby sulfuric acid
produced in a wet gas sulfuric acid tail
gas treating unit is recycled back to the
Claus thermal reactor.
Refining-Petrochemical
Integration.
Fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) has
become the second major propylene
production technology after steam
cracking, showing high flexibility in
feedstocks and product distribution.
This article details a novel FCC
process that uses proprietary catalysts
to selectively crack various heavy
feedstocks to light olefins.
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Pumps.
Pump manufacturers and
end users consider the pump warm-up
system configuration to be an essential
consideration during pump design,
manufacturing and commissioning
stages. The scope of this article focuses
on typical guidelines and best practices
for hot applications where warm-up
systems are required for proper startup
and reliability of the pump.
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