Whitepapers

Cooling systems in refineries and chemical plants depend on water quality analysis of recirculated water to deliver effective performance. Selecting the right instrumentation makes the difference.

Examine how cooling system and scrubber installations operate, what happens to the water they use, and how instrumentation can help monitor and control remediation efforts.

In the challenging environments present in fired equipment operations, new, rugged UV flame sensors can withstand temperatures up to 325°C and respond within milliseconds. Rugged UV flame sensors are the apt solution for proactive protection and prevention in the harsh environments of fired process equipment and power generation operations.

Petra MAX delivers precise results for sulfur and metals in petcoke and coal without complex sample preparation, specialized skills, additional chemicals and reagents, and lengthy measurement time required for other methods and techniques. Learn how you can screen for multiple elements and get results in 5 minutes or less.

Hydroprocessing unit operators know every particle added to the feed process increases pressure drop and takes away from cycle length. The result is unplanned shutdown time, reduced cycle time and a financial loss that can often creep into millions of dollars a year. To mitigate this risk, operators seek ways to make the most of existing plant equipment by integrating new, more efficient technologies. The ideal solution is one that can maximize existing space and provide the best benefit. To better help customers achieve this goal, Crystaphase and Honeywell UOP are integrating market-leading technologies that can enable processing heavier feeds, longer operations, extended time between turnarounds, and help inter-cycle skimming.

Prescriptive maintenance technology is changing how companies manage asset downtime. With more advance warning of equipment failures comes additional opportunity to mitigate the negative impact of shutdowns. In this new white paper discover how prescriptive maintenance powered by AI and machine learning can help predict equipment breakdowns up to months in advance, automate data collection, cleansing and analysis and quickly scale across similar assets enterprise-wide. Learn how companies have successfully implemented these solutions and the quantitative benefits achieved.

Refiners globally are using Clora® to test chlorides in crude and avoid the pitfalls of corrosion and refinery shutdowns. In this paper, we provide a detailed “how to” measure chlorides in crude by ASTM D4929C and water extraction. Download our whitepaper to learn about ASTM 4929C and water extraction procedures.

Engineers and researchers work hard to keep our gas turbines around the globe operating as efficiently and effectively as possible. These efforts include examining the impact of individual systems and components on the turbines' overall performance and reporting the results of our studies. Recently we took a look at the flame sensors in use in our gas turbines, and reached an important conclusion: the elimination of flame sensor water cooling can significantly enhance gas turbine reliability and uptime.

Refiners can optimize their catalyst quality by measuring metals in crude, and then assess the payoff of those optimizations in real-time by measuring chlorine concentration trends in the catalysts themselves. Download our whitepaper to learn about a reliable solution to measure chlorine in catalyst while meeting the UOP 979 criteria.