Whitepapers

This white paper explores how heat exchanger design directly impacts fouling behaviour, cleaning effectiveness, and overall performance. It compares common exchanger types, cleaning methods, and maintenance strategies, highlighting the importance of aligning cleaning and inspection approaches with equipment design. By focusing on design-aware maintenance, the paper helps operators improve efficiency, extend asset life, and make more informed decisions to reduce energy loss and operational risk.

Global Energy Infrastructure's European Downstream Report covers 166 active projects representing $227.6 billion in capital commitment across refining, petrochemicals, biofuels, and gas processing. See where investment is concentrating and what the full European pipeline looks like.

Inadequate equipment selection can lead to unplanned downtime and lost profits for refiners. This is especially true when it comes to selecting fired heater air-preheaters, since the conventional tubular and plate type varietals are prone to single point failure and acid gas condensation risk.

This white paper explores how Econotherm’s heat pipe heat exchanger technology is transforming the fired heater air-preheating landscape. By offering refiners a robust solution with multiple redundancies, heat pipe heat exchangers ultimately increase the reliability of heat recovery loops, lower the total cost of ownership for the refiner, and enable incremental energy recovery.

This white paper explores how refiners and petrochemical operators can sustain reliability and efficiency as turnaround intervals extend. It highlights integrated, out-of-turnaround solutions that restore performance without shutdowns. Real-world case studies demonstrate measurable gains in efficiency, asset life, and uptime, helping plants reduce risk, protect margins, and operate continuously between major outages.

A major Canadian oil company producing steam-stripped ULSD faced production risk when conventional coalescers failed to remove dispersed water, leading to costly short-term mitigation measures. The refinery implemented Pall’s AquaSep^® coalescer technology, which consistently delivered clear and bright, on-spec diesel and maintained performance which helped ensure uninterrupted operations.

AI delivers greater value when supported by a unified, high‑quality data foundation. As operational complexity rises, fragmented systems limit visibility and slow strategic decisions. Modern data platforms integrate real‑time enterprise data to strengthen efficiency, reliability and sustainability. Learn how BASF, Bayer and TotalEnergies use AspenTech’s Industrial Data Fabric to centralize operational data at scale, driving measurable performance gains and enabling enterprise‑wide AI adoption.

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Unplanned downtime is costly – and preventable. Find out how to improve reliability in pipelines, refineries and petrochemical plants in this free guide. Through case studies, infographics and more, you’ll see how to get a complete view of your assets with SETPOINT®. It’s the only vibration monitoring that seamlessly integrates with your AVEVA™ PI System™. Download it now for real insights.

Autonomous operations are poised to redefine industrial performance, offering transformative benefits in efficiency, safety, sustainability, and competitiveness. They will be soon be essential for achieving sustained commercial and technical excellence, and net-zero goals. The transition to autonomous operations is not optional—it is inevitable. However, realizing its full potential requires a holistic, enterprise-wide transformation that aligns technology, people, and processes. Organizations that lead this change will gain a significant competitive edge in a rapidly evolving industrial landscape.