Loss Prevention
Seven imperatives for modern inventory management solutions
Today’s terminal operators are facing several challenges related to the profitability of their bulk terminal, petrochemical and oil field storage sites.
Virtual analyzers: Shaping the future of product quality
Product quality directly drives price and where hydrocarbons can be delivered.
Reliability: What to do when equipment reliability is on a downward slope
When a reliability professional located halfway around the world asked for guidance on how to reverse declining equipment reliability at his world-scale fertilizer plant, we answered.
What went wrong with my furnace?
We should learn from our own mistakes and experiences, but it is wiser to keep track of and learn from all past mistakes and experiences, including those made by others.
Editorial Comment: Optimizing operations by advancing process controls, instrumentation and automation technologies
When driving by or visiting a refinery or petrochemical plant, one cannot help but gaze at the expansive sea of metal towers.
Selecting the right rotary control valve
The primary function of a control valve is to regulate flow. Accurate, consistent and reliable performance of this task affects many important process unit or plant metrics,
Fired heaters in the process industries: Optimizing operations and minimizing emissions
The process industries, which include chemicals, metals and mining, oil and gas, petrochemicals, pulp and paper, and refining, are very energy intensive
Extracting business value from digitalization in oil and gas
Most oil and gas companies are investing in digitalization; however, they often fail to move beyond proof of value (PoV) or pilot projects.
Engineering Case Histories: Case 110: A checklist for vibration analysis
Periodically, I receive questions from engineers around the world on why a piece of critical machinery is vibrating excessively.
Increase uptime by reducing systematic failure risk
Pondering the history of industrial incidents, it would be incorrect to assume that most failures occur randomly.
- Consortium to launch world's first commercialized PET bottle using bio-paraxylene 10/31
- Cepsa becomes Moeve 10/31
- Refiner PBF Energy posts bigger-than-expected 3Q loss as margins collapse 10/31
- Russia's Tuapse oil refinery to resume operations in November 10/31
- Shell's $6-B profit smashes forecasts as LNG offsets weak refining 10/31
- Consortium introduces world's first pharmaceutical bottle partially made with wood-based plastics 10/30
