Loss Prevention
Take the anxiety out of plant turnarounds
The months leading into an impending turnaround (TAR) have never been an easy time for operations and maintenance personnel.
Digital Technologies: A sustainable approach for digitalizing the petrochemical industry
In the petrochemical industry, business leaders are continuing to push for new approaches to optimize technology applications without disrupting their operational targets and key performance indicators.
Digital Exclusive: Refineries’ pandemic turmoil—KNPC’s gasoline demand: Opportunities and challenges
In this exclusive digital article, KNPC provides a comprehensive analysis of the difficulties and challenges that the company experienced during the COVID-19 epidemic and how its refineries adapted during this challenging time.
Honeywell's path to decarbonization: Leak detection, energy efficiency and asset optimization
Reducing emissions is a significant challenge several industries face, with multiple pathways being taken to increase sustainability. At Honeywell Users Group 2023, Ravi Srinivasan delivered a presentation titled “Overcoming emission challenges: The path to net zero.” Srinivasan highlighted several avenues for reducing emissions, such as proactive leak detection and remediation, energy efficiency solutions, hydrogen (H2), carbon capture, renewable fuels and offsets.
A cloud-based solution for development systems
Companies with development systems struggle with the resources to keep them up to date. It is a challenge to keep tabs on data accurately reflecting daily operations. Typically, time is lost by spending weeks analyzing differences and keeping development systems current.
Defossilizing the FCCU via co-processing of biogenic feedstock: From laboratory to commercial scale
Oil demand is expected to reach record highs this year1 after a sharp rebound following the COVID-19 pandemic.
Direction of cost-effective carbon capture and storage technologies
Around the world, many nations and companies are transitioning toward the decarbonization of energy.
Tune engineering teams in innovative green development projects
The energy sector is executing demanding projects to make LNG plants and refineries greener, and to implement completely new green energy solutions.
Advancing the feature sets of field instruments to improve connectivity, diagnostics and user-friendliness
Anyone observing process industries these days recognizes that they are very competitive.
Reimagining reliability analytics
The hypothesis that diversity among teams increases effectiveness is well-researched and published.<sup>1</sup>
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