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Experiences of the SIL project

Who has never heard the phrase ’this shutdown loop is SIL3’, but do we actually know what that phrase means? What does such a statement entail to MOL that an instrumented safety tasks should be compliant with SIL1, SIL2 or SIL3?
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Gas supply security or enhanced gas recovery?

In January 2006, a serious havaria situation emerged in the gas transmission of Central Europe due to the dispute between Ukraine and Russia leading to a shutdown of gas supplies.
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Transporting benzene and toluene by pipeline – First at MOL in the world

Start of TVK Olefin 1 unit in August 2003 and of the new Olfin-2 Plant in the following year has created a 710 kto/year transport demand increase between Százhalombatta and Tiszaújváros.
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Possibilities for processing for used lubricating oils – Part 1.

In this paper the necessity and importance of recycling of used motor oils are reviewed.
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Chemically stabilized rubber bitumens

It was proven that blending bitumen with crumb rubber, which is produced from scrap tires, is not just a waste treating method, but an excellent solution to improve the performance of asphalt pavements compared to roads made of conventional bitumen. The application of rubber bitumen is most widely spread in the US, where the production of the rubber modified binder is in situ, close to the road construction.
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Capture diesel growth opportunity in Danube Refinery – Hydrocracking Project Package

The emerging challenge for the EU refining industries is the rapidly growing diesel demand. While simply adding more distillation capacities could help to ease the diesel situation, such stand-alone solutions would, however, also result in higher motor gasoline output to an already long EU motor gasoline market.
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Ethylene Recovery from Ethyleneoxide Unit Offgases

This paper depicts one possibility how to increase the benefit at the Ethylene oxidation 2 unit in Bratislava Refinery. The refinery offgases can contain valuable components e.g. ethylene, propylene or hydrogen, which are used only as fuel gases. There are some possibilities, how to remove them from the offgas stream and use as important raw material.
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Examination of new turbo-feed pumps construction for Power Plant boilers

Unit P4.1 Power Plant is situated in Refinery Slovnaft Plc. Power Plant main task is supply superheated steam (pressure levels 0.4, 1.0 and 3.5 MPa) and electric power to Slovnaft refinery. High pressure superheated steam is produced on five high pressure steam boilers with installed load on 780 tonns per hour. Electric power is produced on four steam turbines with installed power 114 MWe.
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Implementation of Operator Training System in the MOL Danube Refinery

The Operator Training System (OTS) is a useful tool developed to train operators in a virtual environment under offline conditions. With the help of the OTS, operators are able to learn how to operate existing/future plants to maximise the asset value via solving operational problems in the shortest possible time.
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Kutatás-Termelés Divízió szakmai tevékenysége

After a widespread consultation process with the management of the Exploration and Production of MOL Plc. the authors summarised the professional activity of the Division. The scope of activities covers the whole upstream process from generating exploration project ideas to supply the produced and prepared hydrocarbon into pipelines.
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Mol szénhidrogén-kutatási siker Pakisztánban

MOL Pakistan and Partners (OGDC, PPL, POL) had several major discoveries in the NW frontier Province of Pakistan, in the Kohat plateau. Previous operator drilled 3 dry, relatively shallow wells and left with a basically strikeslip-type interpretation.
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