Whiting, Indiana

Luke A. Schaap, Research and Development Department, Standard Oil Company (Indiana), Whiting, Indiana... 

Whiting, Indiana, USA 1955 2 died, 30 injured following a detonation in a hydroformer. Storage tanks punctured by shrapnel buried for 8 days ( 8M) DET... 

Present address Standard Oil Company of Indiana, Whiting, Indiana. 

Spent caustic (3800 tons/year) is sent off-site for recovery of remaining caustic value and naphthenic acids. Most catalysts are recycled for recovery of additional activity or metals. Spent cracking catalyst (6(K) tons/year) is sent to Amoco s Whiting, Indiana, refinery for use as equilibrium catalyst. Spent ultraforming catalyst is returned to metals reclaimers to recover platinum for reuse in new catalyst. Spent desulfurization catalyst and polymer catalyst are nonhazardous and are buried in an on-site landfill. Sludges from the oil/water separator are a listed hazardous waste under RCRA regulations. They are combined with other solid wastes, such... 

Standard Oil Whiting, Indiana 1955 650 Low pour point lubes (— 70°F) for military use in die Arctic and other applications 15, 17, 41... 

FIGURE 9.15 Schematic of urea dewaxing lube oil plant for Standard Oil in Whiting, Indiana. 

BP Amoco Whiting, Indiana, United States Modifications to relief systems were delayed maintenance of relief devices was inadvertently overlooked No damage risks posed from overpressured equipment Job tasks were not reassigned when a project engineer left the company, so the project fell through the cracks 5... 

Standard Oil of Indiana (now BP) commercializes the Burton process for delayed coking at Whiting, Indiana. 

Standard Oil of Indiana commercialized the delayed coking process at Whiting, Indiana in 1929. In 1933, UOP commercialized the conversion of olefins to gasoline via catalytic polymerization. Later in the 1930s, refiners began using tetraethyl lead to boost the octane of gasoline. A consortium of... 

The first skill that a new homeowner should acquire is toilet repair. 1 had my first lesson on this vital skill in 1969. We had just moved into our first house in south Chicago when 1 discovered our toilet wouldn t flush. An experienced co-worker at the American Oil Refinery in Whiting, Indiana (now BP), suggested that 1 check the roof vent (see Fig. 1.2). 

This exact scenario transpired at a 3000-psi white oil hydrotreater reactor I had designed for the Amoco Oil Refinery in Whiting, Indiana. All seven catalyst beds were destroyed, along with my patented reactor interbed quench distributors. The place to locate the pressure relief valves is not at the top, but at the bottom, below the final catalyst bed support of the reactor. 

Overfilling a flare K.O. drum is a serious matter. Liquid hydrocarbons may erupt from the flare like a giant flame-thrower. My secretary ran out of the Good Hope Refinery without her shoes when our flare stack overflowed. Burning liquid butane erupting from the Amoco Oil flare in Whiting, Indiana, was reported as a missile laimch by a spy satellite. 

In 1968,1 was the technical support engineer on the crude distillation unit at the Amoco Refinery in Whiting, Indiana. My job was to implement a new computer control program for the automated operation of the unit. Basically, I was to convince the operators that automated, direct, on-line computer control could produce more consistent product specifications than an experienced panel board operator. One of the factors that led to my failure in this assignment was that in 19681 was not sure if this was true. Now, in 2014, I m still not convinced that direct computer control of refinery processes is always the best approach. 

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