Sulfur and sour service environments cause some of the industry’s most serious equipment failures. This post covers corrosion mechanisms, materials selection, and integrity management strategies.
Sulfuric acid is the world’s highest-volume industrial chemical. This post explains the Contact Process and the pressure vessel, piping, and materials engineering behind acid plants.
Sulfur recovery units combine high-temperature combustion and corrosive catalytic chemistry. This post explains the Claus process and the mechanical/piping design decisions that keep SRUs reliable and compliant.
Sulfur quietly powers fertilizer, fuel, and chemical production worldwide. This pillar post introduces sulfur’s industrial journey — from recovery to corrosion risk — and previews the rest of the series.
The greenhouse effect is the way in which heat is trapped close to Earth’s surface by “greenhouse gases.” These heat-trapping gases can be thought of as a blanket wrapped around Earth, keeping the planet toastier than it would be without them. Greenhouse gases include carbon dioxide, methane…
What is Energy? Energy is the ability to do workScientists define energy as the ability to do work. Modern civilization is possible because people have learned how to change energy from one form to another and then use it to do work. People use energy to walk and bicycle, to move cars along roads…
Mankind has lived on the earth for hundreds of thousands of years in relative harmony with their natural surroundings. The earth and its climate were unaffected by the activities of early man. Within the last two hundred years, however, this peaceful co-existence has drastically changed as a…
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