BP PLC and research groups from the UK and Russia have formed a consortium to study ways to improve energy efficiency of Russian refineries.
The Center of Applied Research on Energy Efficient Heat Exchange and Catalysis (Project UNIHEAT) will try to cut heat loss in refining by as much as 15% by improving operations, enhancing processes, and cutting emissions of carbon dioxide.
Funding will come from BP and the Skolkovo Foundation, created in 2010 to establish a science and technology-development center in a suburb of Moscow.
Other participants are Imperial College London; Imperial Consultants, affiliated with Imperial College; Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, Novosibirsk, Russia; Novosibirsk State University; and UNICAT Ltd., affiliated with Boreskov Institute and Novosibirsk State University.
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Bob Tippee has been chief editor of Oil & Gas Journal since January 1999 and a member of the Journal staff since October 1977. Before joining the magazine, he worked as a reporter at the Tulsa World and served for four years as an officer in the US Air Force. A native of St. Louis, he holds a degree in journalism from the University of Tulsa.
