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How to Cut Emissions & Fuel, and Increase Capacity in Fired Heaters

According to a recent Digital Refining article, fired heaters emit an estimated 400 to 500 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) every year, with at least 73% of average refinery CO2 emissions coming from combustion. Refineries and petrochemical plants are under increasing pressure to reduce emissions, while also looking for ways to reduce fuel consumption […]

How to Prevent Corrosion Caused by Renewables Conversion

Many oil and gas companies are repurposing refineries to produce renewable diesel, sustainable aviation fuel, and other renewable biofuels and products. The replacement of fossil fuels will help to decrease greenhouse gas (GHG) and CO2 emissions. To incentivize the production of renewable fuels, the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Program requires that […]

What Causes Waste Heat Boiler Corrosion Within Smelting Furnaces and How Can it be Prevented?

Non-Ferrous pyrometallurgical plants across the globe rely on smelting furnaces to extract copper, nickel, lead, and zinc which are subsequently used in a wide variety of manufacturing processes. Renowned for their efficiency and speed, these assets need to be carefully maintained to operate at maximum capacity. Waste Heat Boilers (WHB) suffer from high-temperature sulfidation leading […]

Boiler Cladding: Cutting Corners is no Longer the Norm!

When power boilers are experiencing erosion, corrosion or fouling, boiler operators rely on thermal spray and weld overlay companies to consistently solve these problems ensuring boiler’s lasting reliability. How Can Tube Leaks be Avoided? Tube leaks can cause the plant to drop 25% in its baseline profitability. Such losses are unacceptable to the operator. So […]

Keeping the Lights on in the Middle of the Pandemic

This critical maintenance project was completed at an international paper making company’s flagship US mill with state-of-the-art technologies utilized in their paper making process. Kevin Phillips, IGS Industrial Applications Project Management Expert, commented: “This was the cleanest paper mill I have worked in in 24 years. Usually, you have black liquor and smelt all over […]