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Safety instrumented function design reduces nuisance trips

Tesoro Corp.: Kern, A.G.

Implementing low-cost best practices can provide peace of mind

Improve material balance in high-purity distillation control

Summa Control Solutions Inc.: Nino, S.

Using dual-composition conserved energy efficiency, reduced reprocessing and allowed higher throughput

Case 65: Taking risks and making high-level presentations

Consulting Engineer: Sofronas, A.

Tips on how to communicate with managers

Investigation: Failure of a steam generator

SABIC R&T: Babakr, A.  |  Bairamov, A.

In case history, engineers search for root cause of water-side tube failures for a 23-year-old boiler

HP Viewpoint: The evolution of safety in the oil and gas industry

KBR: Lyons, C.

As a safety professional with 25 years of experience in the hydrocarbon and chemical industries, I’ve had the unique opportunity to view first-hand the evolution of safety. Upon entering this fie..

HP Reliability: One pump fire per 1,000 pump repairs

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

While performing reliability audits decades ago, pump-failure statistics were made available or could be recovered with relative ease. But even then, the sources were usually kept confidential because..

HP Water Management: Don’t let water be the reason for a turnaround

MarTech Systems, Inc.: Huchler, L. A.

Several years ago, while arriving onsite during another unit turnaround, I joked to a process engineer at the refinery “I get it. . . every time I ‘turn around,’ you have a turnaround.&..

HP Integration Strategies: Aging HPI workforce drives need for operator training systems

ARC Advisory Group: Abel, J.

As a leading research and consulting organization focused on the process industries, manufacturing, infrastructure and other industrial sectors, ARC Advisory Group has been closely following the emerg..

HP Construction: Asia-Pacific

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Alfa Laval has won an order to supply its Packinox heat exchangers to a refinery in Kazakhstan. The order value is approximately SEK 55 million, and delivery is scheduled for 2012.The Packinox heat ex..

Make the case for ‘lean thinking’ in maintenance

Cost Control Systems, LLC: Lamb, R. G.

What is ‘lean’ for maintenance; should companies use?