July 2025

The July 2025 issue of Hydrocarbon Engineering begins with a keynote on digitalisation brought to you by EPC as Miro Cavkov discusses the role of artificial intelligence in guiding the downstream industry through digital transformation. This brand new issue also includes several comprehensive features on gas processing, sulfur, LNG, insulation, hydrogen, filtration, and much more.

This month's front cover is brought to you by Aspen Aerogels.

Digitalising the downstream
Miro Cavkov, EPC, Bulgaria, considers how digital transformation and artificial intelligence can boost operational efficiency and safety within the downstream industry.

Investing in a safer future
Emma Bundy, Yokogawa RAP, explores how industrial transformation solutions can improve safety, reliability, and operational efficiency for large corporations within the industry.

Time for a transfer
Richard Stambaugh, Merichem Technologies, analyses high performance mass transfer technologies and their viability as a treatment solution for refiners.

Drop by drop

Prashanth Chandran and Ralph H. Weiland, Optimized Gas Treating, Inc., examine the deployment of rate-based simulation and modelling in the design of liquid treaters.

Going against the grain
Varun Mathur, IPCO, provides insight into sulfur granulation technology in use at a refinery in Oman.

Conveying molten sulfur in refineries
Michael Borchwaldt, ITT Rheinhütte Pumpen GmbH, explores how sulfur pumps in refineries can aid the desulfurisation process.

Insulating innovation: the evolution of industry standards
Mark Krajewski, Aspen Aerogels, USA, provides a specifier’s guide to best practices for designing with next-generation insulation materials.

Gas handling at LNG terminals
Rakesh Kulkarni, Burckhardt Compression, Switzerland, examines land-based compressors and how their performance can be improved.

Holistic hydrogen strategies
Brandy Johnson, Babcock & Wilcox (B&W), posits how embracing diverse hydrogen generation technologies and feedstocks can help adapt to emerging energy pressures.

Lasers for safety
Rhys Jenkins, Servomex, UK, considers how tunable diode laser technology can help overcome challenges in oxygen monitoring and measurement.

Staged flare solutions
Esther Green, Zeeco Inc., USA, explores how staged flare solutions can reduce emissions and enhance flare performance.

The case for cleaner combustion
Matthew Martin, ClearSign Technologies Corp., makes a case for why nitrogen oxides are a critical pollutant and outlines a strategy for emissions abatement.

July 2025

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