Oil Refining
September 24, 2020
Nexus helps to create the “United in Safety” sub-committee at BP Husky Refining in Toledo to improve electrical safety culture.
In 2015, BP Husky approached Nexus with the concept of creating a United In Safety sub-committee to review and oversee Instrumentation and Electrical safety issues at their refinery in Toledo. The sub-committee was successfully created, and three Nexus employees serve as members, one of which ...
September 23, 2020
Nexus works effectively with refinery team by providing temporary compression solution to capture lost margin. An unplanned refinery unit outage resulted in a nine to twelve-month loss of hydrogen compression capacity. While co-product hydrogen supply from another refinery unit remained available, the hydrogen compression outage led to a reduction in hydro-processing throughput, degradation of hydrogen to fuel and significant loss of product margin. The challenge was to safely, effectively and quickly capture lost hydroprocessing product margins in ...
September 21, 2020
Inspection indicated signs of creep stress and deterioration in radiant and convection sections of furnace. A client’s inspection of the 1960’s vintage furnace identified that the tubes in the radiant sections showed signs of creep stress and required replacement. This inspection also showed other deterioration issues in the radiant section, convection section and large bore duct to the SCR from the furnace stack.
With only a short amount of time remaining before the Hydrocracker planned turnaround, the challenge...
September 28, 2019
Nexus Engineering Group has proven experience and expertise in the field of Pipe Stress Analysis. Whether designing a new piping system or evaluating existing systems with problems or failures, our talented and knowledgeable team provide safe, cost-effective and code-compliant solutions to meet your specific needs. In our latest Tech Perspective we provide a general overview of Pipe Stress Analysis – why it is needed, what it entails and it’s benefits.