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Our Featured Story archive is a collection of unique articles specially chosen by the Editor. In addition to industry updates, market news and topical issues of the day the Feature Story provides an interesting mix of company profiles, in-depth technical articles, and reports from major end users. The section also features projects in a variety of industries ranging from oil & gas, chemical and petrochemical to the power generation and food and beverage industries.

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Featured Story – Transformers, boilers and pressure vessels: megatons moved on air

Moving huge transformers, boilers, and pressure vessels, through production lines without causing slowdowns, or even shutdowns, can pose significant challenges. However, many companies do not realize that this type of equipment is easy to manoeuver around using air caster technology. In this article the technology is explained, and examples of how it works and eases the movement of heavy, complicated shapes are given and endorsed.

Featured Story – The use of titanium for heat transfer in the chemical processing...

The transfer of heat from one fluid to another is an essential component of all chemical processes. Whether it is to cool down a chemical after it has been formed during an exothermic reaction, or to heat-up components before starting a reaction to make a final product, understanding the elements to design an effective, efficient heat transfer system is the key to cost-effective manufacturing of most chemicals today.

Featured Story – Milk fouling in heat exchangers

Some heat exchangers are used in very distinct industries with basically the same design. Take the Plate Heat Exchanger (PHE) for example. Companies in Oil & Gas and Food Processing employ this equipment, but the solutions developed in each field to cope with problems do not necessarily migrate between both industries. Even the manufacturers tend to segment their business lines and correspondent technical representatives, which may further prevent the flow of information.

Featured Story – Steam reformer tubes; lifecycle and integrity management

Steam reformers are used in ammonia, methanol and hydrogen plants and are one of the most critical items of equipment in terms of the potential impact on safety and production in case of failure. Reformer tubes operate within the creep range, and thus their useful life is finite and highly dependent on the operating conditions.

Featured Story – Working with steam turbines An interview with Jillian Toussaint of BP

In an informal interview, Principle Machinery Engineer at BP in the Netherlands Jillian Toussaint discusses her work with steam turbines, explains why digitalization will be increasingly important and – almost in passing– reveals exactly why engineering really should be every schoolleaver’s first choice of profession.

Featured Story – Corrosion resistance of heat exchangers in seawater desalination plants

This paper examines the corrosion of high-alloy stainless steels used in heat exchangers which are working in service in seawater desalination plants where chlorination of the seawater is used to limit microbial activity and can therefore provide a quite aggressive environment.

Featured Story – Best practices for welding duplex stainless steels

This article first explains why duplexes are increasingly the material of choice in process industries’ applications, before going on to explain the intricacies of welding duplex to dissimilar metals so that potential problems can be avoided. Aspects like the importance of the materials’ coefficients of thermal expansion, heat dissipation, thermal conductivity, and the fusion grain structure all need to be considered when joining duplex alloys to carbon steel and low-alloy steel.

Featured Story – Compact, high-efficiency heat exchangers: Understanding fouling

Within the class of compact heat exchanger, the sub-class of high efficiency CHEs is generally characterized by high film coefficients and low fouling factors that both contribute to higher overall U values. While these attributes alone tend to make the CHEs smaller in size than conventional shell-and-tube and other ‘longitudinal’ heat exchangers, the use of close channel spacings also allows this sub-class to get more heat transfer area into a given footprint and a given volume.

Featured Story – Heavy Metal & Tubes (India) Pvt. Ltd. A fully self-reliant company...

Heavy Metal & Tubes (India) Pvt. Ltd. has a strikingly young and dynamic management, which is resolved to taking the company to new heights through its clear vision, state-of-the-art technology, highly talented and qualified staff, and its determination to produce the highest quality products to ensure customer satisfaction.

Featured Story – Orbital tube to tube-sheet welding

Each heat exchanger in which heat is exchanged in tubes, hence the designation tubular heat exchanger, comprises not only tubes but also a tubesheet or a tube header where the tubes end. Thousands of joints are required for just one heat exchanger and this underlines the importance of and the reason for an easily reproducible, reliable joint of high quality. When manufacturing heat exchangers no other work process is repeated as frequently as that used to fasten the tubes.