Environment & Safety
Apply biofiltration methods to manage VOC emissions
"Green" technology can offer economic benefits while complying with permit requirements
HP Automation Safety: Periodic functional testing – Is there a better way?
Process design engineers work hard to create inherently safe processes. To a great extent, this effort is successful and the general industry safety record continues to get better. Cons..
Strategic business elements of ISO 9001:2000
Along with providing quality management, certification may be a valuable marketing tool for enhancing customer confidence
Safety and environmental management compliance
A brief review of common certification programs that can enhance performance
Understand basic engineering codes
Here’s an overview of the nature, use and limitations of US industrial standards
HP Automation Safety: Using the safety life cycle
IEC 61511, Functional safety: Safety instrumented systems for the process industry sector, was recently released and is available on the IEC Website (www.iec.ch). This standard is well ..
Effectively guard a complex against a terrorist assault
Turn your facility assets from soft into hardened targets
Human factors analysis for process safety
Apply LOPA-HF to a fired furnace
HP Automation Safety: Beware of trip point negative creep
I recently rediscovered a curious phenomenon that affects SIS shutdown settings: trip points. This malady is particularly problematic for flow measurements in plants that have gone thro..
Noncapital intensive technologies reduce FCC sulfur content – Part 2
Using novel membrane technology, refiners have new solutions to treat gasoline for sulfur and olefins content
- Chinese independent refiners snap up discounted Mideast oil as supplies rise 7/3
- India refiner Nayara's gasoline sold to Russia via traders 7/3
- India seeks to quell public backlash on ethanol-mixed fuel after 'experiment' remark 7/3
- Venezuela's largest refinery in service after power outage following earthquake 7/3
- U.S.-Iran war still trails the 1979 oil shock by total losses 7/3
- ABB Ethernet-APL flowmeters to support digitalization at a large petrochemical complex in China 7/2
