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Achieving high efficiency in heat transfer equipment with HTRI digital twin technologies
February 11, 2025
The North American Refining Technology Conference (NARTC) was held January 21 — 22, 2025 in Houston, Texas. In the official conference newspaper, HTRI staff discuss the role of digital twins in heat transfer efficiency and how HTRI is at the forefront of developing solutions to advance predictive and preventive maintenance. ...
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F-31 SARA Crude Oil Characterization: A Critical Review
November 25, 2024
The refining industry has long sought to understand how the chemistry of crude oil relates to fouling. Crude oil is composed of thousands of chemical species, so identifying and quantifying each of them individually would be impractical. Instead, different laboratory techniques are used to group species with similar chemical characteristics into a minimum number of...
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F-30-TR Evaluation of Measurement Techniques for Crude Oil Particles
October 28, 2024
Developing effective fouling mitigation techniques for crude oils requires a fundamental understanding of particulate matter in heat exchanger flows, as well as experimental methods that accurately measure particle sizes and concentration distributions. HTRI previously determined that the ASTM F-312 method is unable to characterize differences in particle size distributions among crudes. For this study,...
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