Whitepapers

Imagine a plant that is no longer at risk of a random shutdown. Imagine not worrying about losing a year’s worth of hard-fought optimization value in just two to three days due to a maintenance emergency. Through the science of maintenance, historical and real-time operational data combine to predict when a breakdown will occur with months — not just days — of advance notice. Learn more in this executive brief from AspenTech President and CEO Antonio Pietri.

This paper will explain how, by selecting the CANSOLV SO2 Scrubbing System for substantially cutting the SO2 emissions from its FCC unit off-gas rather than using a more conventional caustic scrubbing system, a Chinese refiner has unlocked a series of benefits. Its evaluation found the capital cost of the two solutions to be comparable, but it has avoided the costs associated with treating large amounts of liquid effluent, which are inevitable with caustic scrubbing, and improved its margins through the recovery of marketable sulphur.

In petrochemical plants and refineries, tunable diode laser (TDL) gas analyzers are becoming an increasingly common sight. Their high reliability and low maintenance has made them the gas analyzer technology of choice for many companies. Installing a cross-stack TDL directly in a process pipe or vessel creates some installation and operational challenges and limitations which need to be considered carefully before considering their deployment. This white paper examines influences on the light beam and alignment of typical cross-pipe TDLs and contrasts that with the versatility of folded-path TDLs.

Transforming capital project execution requires new strategies and taking best practices from successful projects. This interactive ebook showcases actual successful capital projects and how companies across countries and industries are combining best-in-class project strategies and automation technologies to transform capital project execution.

Andrea Tradii; Stefano Rossin; and Riccardo De Paolis of GE Oil and Gas were the respective winners of the 2015 Don Miller Award for Excellence in System Level Thermo-Fluid Design. Their work discusses the value of simulating the multi-physics of the fluid-mechanical interactions of a steam turbine trip valve in Flowmaster.

This white paper highlights Galvanic’s approach to providing refinery operators with liquid analyzers that can help them realize improved product quality, better compliance with environmental regulations, and reduced operating costs.

Find out how to improve operational performance from an average to a top quartile performer by gaining new insights into your production and operating more successfully than ever before. Innovations in Plantweb process monitoring and analytics are delivering actionable information to help transform plant performance and meet your OPEX goals.

The falling cost of connectivity and data storage, processes across the entire Oil & Gas value chain are now able to gather more data from more devices, assets, operations and processes than ever before. Refiners in particular, stand to gain value quickly because the existing IT infrastructure is more mature compared to upstream & midstream. The foundation of this operational perspective starts with the basic principle of the closed loop process – Connect, Collect, Analyze and Act.