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With momentum building in the renewable fuels space, refiners are looking to convert their existing facilities to produce renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). However, this is not a simple switch. This podcast details the drivers, strategies, challenges and opportunities for refinery conversions to renewable fuels and SAF.

This episode, by Marcus Brucher, Senior Vice President of Compression, Siemens Energy, discusses the potential of ammonia as a clean energy carrier and the critical role compressors play in its production.

Hydrocarbon Processing sat down with Matt Kirchner, Vice President of Marketing for Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) at the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturer’s Association (AFPM) Summit. This episode dives down into the current FCC catalyst market, challenges facing the refining industry and how catalyst are playing a role in the solution, and where the FCC catalyst market is heading in the future.

In this episode, the editors of Hydrocarbon Processing interview Rogan Jones, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, AIS Software, live from the AFPM Summit. The discussion focuses on using operations monitoring and reporting software to increase situational awareness and boost safety in processing plants.

This episode focuses on modern advanced process control (APC) and how it can help personnel and operations increase efficiencies, optimize operations and provide more unit uptime. As described, the latest APC systems are more intuitive and can be adopted by most organizations for enhanced operations management.

Hydrocarbon Processing caught up with Jeff DeWitt, Applications Engineer for Swagelok, to discuss the many facets of gas distribution systems, including new trends, safety, selecting the best regulator(s) and ways asset owners can optimize their internal gas distribution systems.

There is no doubt that shift handovers represent a knowledge-transfer challenge for plant personnel. Knowledge-transfer challenges can be even greater when seasoned workers retire or leave for another organization. However, as this podcast explains, knowledge-transfer challenges are a great opportunity to incorporate digitalization into plant operations, providing workers with numerous benefits.

This podcast looks at several techniques to help guide accident investigation managers and teams, with the ultimate goal of empowering personnel to find the root cause(s) and striving to mitigate repeated incidents.

There are countless challenges involved in the development of a megaproject. One area of particular importance is the facility's fluid systems. This podcast details the strategies that the owner of a $27-B petrochemical megaproject in the Asia-Pacific region used to achieve standardization of tubing and fittings throughout several key fluid system applications.

This episode provides the benefits of optical gas imaging (OGI) cameras in detecting leaks in various areas of petrochemical plants, including improving worker safety and plant efficiency while reducing emissions.