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Refcomm's Podcast
by Evan Hyde
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."
Episodes
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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…
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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 - Aggreko Helps a Major Refinery Maintain Production During Seasonal Shutdown…
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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...
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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.…
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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: Emerson - Micromotion Yokogawa…
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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…
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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. http://refiningcommunity.com/...
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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,...
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Building Reliability Practices Across Industries
Guests: John Mleczewski, Linde Group Linde Industrial Gases - 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…
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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...
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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...
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IE Expert Charlie Smith Talks Motors - Part 2 of 2
Wide ranging motor discussion touches on history, refinery applications, failures, bearing lube, criticality, high tech test equipment recommendations, best practices and more.
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IE Expert Charlie Smith Talks Motors - Part 1 of 2
Wide ranging motor discussion touches on history, refinery applications, failures, bearing lube, criticality, high tech test equipment recommendations, best practices and more.
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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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ABOUT THIS SHOW
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."
HOSTED BY
Evan Hyde
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How many episodes does Refcomm's Podcast have?
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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...
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Refcomm's Podcast is created and hosted by Evan Hyde.
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