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Manufacturing Process Unit Exemption/RCRA: U.S. EPA Administrative Law Judge Addresses Applicability Question

A United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Administrative Law Judge Christine Donelian Coughlin (“ALJ”) interpreted the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”) term “manufacturing ...
JD Supra

Manufacturing Process Unit Exemption/RCRA: U.S. EPA Environmental Appeals Board Addresses Applicability Question

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Environmental Appeals Board (“EAB”) issued an August 15th decision interpreting the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”) term ...

Valero's Port Arthur, Texas, Refinery Reports Unit Upset: TCEQ Filing -- OPIS

Valero Energy's 424,000 b/d Port Arthur, Texas, refinery reported a process unit upset on Monday that prompted operations personnel to use flaring to minimize contaminant emissions, according to a ...
AZOM

Optimizing Refinery Catalytic Reforming Units with the Use of Simple Robust On-line Analyzer Technology

This article first considers the background: why optimization of refinery process units is so necessary and so common, and what analytical tools exist to help. The main problem in refining is that, ...
GEN

Optimizing Your Process Unit Operations

As the bioprocess industry grows, and more products work their way through clinical trials toward approval, commercial production becomes important to supply the market with product. A safe, reliable, ...