Procurement

April 18, 2021

Nexus Design Mitigates Cation Plant Environmental Emissions

Nexus advised on emissions mitigation for a Central US water treatment system's cation plant using state-of-the-art CAD 3D modelling.
March 9, 2021
A renewable energy storage solution

Nexus Consults on Black Start of Generating Station

Nexus provided consulting engineering for the black start of a Western US generating station using a 12MWh battery energy storage system.
September 26, 2020
An oil refinery at sunset with mountains on the horizon.

Nexus Assists with HDN Recycle Compressor Improvements at Major U.S. Refinery

The objective of the project was to replace the aging and inefficient HDN Recycle Compressor with the least amount of deconstruction to its existing location. Our client, a major global petroleum producer, sells 50 million gallons of fuel to more than 7,200 retail locations across the U.S. This midwest refinery can process up to 160,000 barrels of crude oil each day. Since 2016, the refinery has completed its largest maintenance turnaround in 40 years, along with the largest facility building project in its entire history. Both have helped the refinery improve safety and become more efficient in its use of ...
September 23, 2020
The dial of a pressure gauge registers a two near a red shut-off valve.

Nexus Helps Refinery Implement Supplemental Hydrogen Compression Solution

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
A glowing industrial hydrocracker furnace

Nexus Rebuilds Hydrocracker Furnace

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...