January 2020
Process Controls, Instrumentation and Automation
Optimal gas analysis decisions improve ethylene plant operation
One of the most common and important building blocks in the petrochemical industry is ethylene, constituting a huge and fast-growing worldwide industry. Ethylene is an intermediate chemical used to manufacture many commercial products—approximately 200 MMt will be produced in 2020.
The Authors
Michael Kamphus is the Global Product Manager for Emerson’s Rosemount process gas analyzers. He holds a PhD in chemistry from Bielefeld University in Germany, and has several years of experience as an industrial process gas analysis application engineer. Dr. Kamphus is a member of the German section of the Combustion Institute and the Process Analytics Working Group for the German Chemical Society.
Dave Mcmillen is the North America Business Development Manager for Emerson’s Rosemount process gas analyzers. Mr. McMillen has more than 15 yr of experience in process analytics and is a member of the Analytical Division of the International Society of Automation.
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