Digital Technologies
Monitoring cyclone reliability in fluid catalytic crackers
The authors’ company has developed a novel approach with a digital algorithm to effectively estimate the current cyclone erosion and predict future erosion based on operating conditions. With this approach, refiners get an automatic way to better predict abrasion lining erosion for both reactors and regenerator cyclones daily from digital analytics, thus helping refiners quantify their monitoring.
KBC launches Visual MESA Energy Management System 7.2 for energy and emissions management
KBC (A Yokogawa Company) has launched its Visual MESA® Energy Management System 7.2 (VM-EMS), a comprehensive energy digital twin suite designed to meet the developing needs of modern energy management in processing plants across the hydrocarbon supply chain and other industrial verticals.
Control Station launches System Health Monitoring offering, delivers industry-spanning operational insights
Control Station has launched System Health Monitoring (SHM), a tiered service offering that leverages intelligence captured by the company’s PlantESP Loop Performance Monitoring solution.
Imubit launches closed-loop AI optimization solution powered by reinforcement learning
Imubit, a global leader in closed-loop artificial intelligence (AI) optimization, has launched its Optimizing Brain™ Solution and Industrial AI Platform.
Emerson to join the Margo initiative, an open-standard pathway to optimize edge applications
Emerson is joining the Linux Foundation’s Margo, a new open-standard initiative designed to make edge applications, devices and orchestration software work together seamlessly across multi-vendor industrial automation environments.
Oil and gas web client computing devices facilitate integration of web-based HMI/SCADA applications
Operators in oil and gas manufacturing facilities have long depended on human machine interfaces (HMI) to offer a visual summary of process systems that simplifies the monitoring of crucial status and control data. A well-crafted graphical user interface enhances situational awareness, decreases workload and empowers operators to oversee the entire process, facilitating their focus to quickly address any abnormal scenarios.
Schneider Electric and GR3N to tackle plastic recycling challenges and drive circularity in chemical sector
Schneider Electric, one of the world's most sustainable companies and a leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, has partnered with GR3N, the Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) chemical recycler, to create the first open automation system for the advanced plastic recycling industry.
Yokogawa releases OpreX Intelligent Manufacturing Hub
Yokogawa Electric Corp. has announced the global release in all markets other than Japan of its OpreX™ Intelligent Manufacturing Hub, a data integration and visualization solution incorporating robotic process automation (RPA).
DNV and Mumbai Port Sustainability Foundation sign MoU to advance sustainability efforts
Classification society DNV has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Mumbai Port Sustainability Foundation (MPSF), a non-profit entity under the Mumbai Port Authority, to cooperate on activities and projects related to decarbonization, digitalization, emissions management and safety.
Shell to leverage proprietary structural performance management software for various facilities
Under this agreement, Shell will leverage Akselos’ Structural Performance Management (SPM) software to monitor the structural health of critical assets across the Shell portfolio in near real-time. Akselos’ SPM software will help enable Shell to optimize the lifecycle of critical assets safely and sustainably.
- Clean Hydrogen Works awards McDermott FEED contract for Ascension Clean Energy (ACE) project 11/21
- Day 2 of WGLC 2024 begins with Chevron speaker’s inspiring, relatable message 11/21
- MOL Group, KazMunayGas partner on exploring petrochemical production 11/21
- WGLC: Innovating AI adoption 11/21
- Solvay uses waste wood to power soda ash and bicarbonate plant in Germany 11/21
- Syensqo expands U.S. production capacity for advanced polymers 11/21
