Issue 5 March 2019

The leading source for refinery safety, new technology, & best practices for the delayed coking, fluid catalytic cracking, and resid hydrocracking units.

HOW TO INCREASE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL CONVERSION  Resid hydrocracking is gaining popularity because of its ability to process heavier and diverse feed stocks.  Click here to watch the video

NEXT-GEN DCU VESSEL REPAIR TECHNOLOGIES Live Scanning Tooling can provide real-time surface profile information during a structural weld overlay application to correct potential surface profile deviations that may affect the weld deposit operating life. Read article here

WE WANT YOU...(TO TELL US WHAT MATTERS MOST) We want to know what the challenges and pain points are in your unit. Please take three minutes to complete this short survey so we can focus on solving the problems that matter most to you. Refinery Operator Poll

CATCRACKING VETERAN STRENGTHENS FCC TRAINING AT REFCOMM®  Joe will be assisting with the   FCC Process Fundamentals & Recent Developments training course   this year at  RefComm® Galveston , as well as providing general assistance throughout the conference in the FCC track. Read article here

HOW MANAGEMENT OF CHANGE SAVES LIVES Let’s say you have a sink and the faucet handle breaks. Then you put a pipe wrench on the stub where the faucet handle was to get water in the sink. Sure, you’ve found a workaround to get the water flowing, but you’ve also just changed the way the sink was originally designed to function.  The same concept applies in the refinery.  Read article here

DON'T LEAVE YOUR FCC UNIT UP TO CHANCE Attend RefComm for FREE! We are so confident that you will leave RefComm with a wealth of information to implement in your own unit that we are willing to prove it by inviting you to attend FOR FREE! Click here for full details of offer

COKER SAFETY GROUP COMES TO REFCOMM® GALVESTON RSVP to reserve your seat at this very important event May 3, 2019, right after RefComm® Galveston! Coking.com Director of Field Services Evan Hyde explains the background, format, and importance of this event in this two-minute video.

March 18 is Early Reg. Deadline to register for RefComm ® Galveston! Register at www.RefComm.com

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