Adding Value #19

Posted on October 2, 2020October 2, 2020 by kent

Here at RCE, some times we’re so good at our job that we cost ourselves business. We had been engaged […]

Adding Value #18

Posted on September 18, 2020September 18, 2020 by kent

The RCE “rule” is that you must have a pre-alarm before a shutdown. The reason for this “rule” is that […]

Posted on September 4, 2020September 4, 2020 by kent

Inadvertent valve opening is a scenario that comes up time and time again during process hazards reviews. An example of […]

Posted on June 29, 2020June 29, 2020 by kent

Sometimes operations have to make adjustments to account for issues with equipment performance. One recent example was a GSP type […]

Posted on June 12, 2020June 22, 2020 by kent

Garbage in equals garbage out. That’s an old saying but it still applies to many things. In this case it […]

Posted on May 15, 2020May 20, 2020 by kent

A gas plant was utilizing all their residue compressors to process 200 MMSCFD when it designed to have one as […]

Posted on May 1, 2020May 20, 2020 by kent

Interesting optimization finding. A gas plant was operating in what appeared to be pretty good shape. Ethane recoveries were right […]

Posted on April 17, 2020June 12, 2020 by kent

A new plant was started up recently and instead of getting ethane recoveries in the mid 90% range as expected, […]

Posted on April 3, 2020May 20, 2020 by kent

A few months after start-up a plant was having problems with high refrigeration condensing pressure. The first step was to […]

Posted on March 20, 2020May 20, 2020 by kent

We recently visited a gas plant whose ethane recoveries were suffering. The plant personnel said they knew what the problem […]