Loss Prevention
Siemens temperature measuring system lengthens plant life, improves product quality
Siemens’ Sitrans TO500 enables complex temperature measurements and detection of the precise position of critical overtemperatures.
Honeywell’s Assurance 360 service program protects industrial plants
Honeywell Process Solutions is helping industrial manufacturing plants around the world maximize uptime and reduce operating costs through its innovative Assurance 360 services program.
Use dynamic simulation to maximize plant operating performance
The oil and gas industry has witnessed seismic downward shifts in barrel prices and uplifts in market competitiveness.
Monitor medium-voltage switchgear in refineries
When medium-voltage switchgear (MVS) in a refinery fails, it can force a process unit or even an entire refinery to shut down.
Innovations
Where large machines are in use and the overall processes depend on a smoothly functioning plant, companies often rely on fixed maintenance schedules and diagnostic tools.
Project Management: Global trends in energy savings: Are emerging technologies the solution?
Despite low energy prices, energy conservation continues to be an important component of business strategy in the oil refining and chemical industries.
GE to provide power solution for Petronas’ Pengerang complex
GE will supply 17 emergency diesel generator packages, five transportable switch rooms and the electrical balance for Petronas’ Pengerang Integrated Petrochemical Complex.
Innovations
Petron Bataan Refinery (PBR) is the largest integrated crude oil refinery and petrochemicals complex in the Philippines.
Experience with naphtha in sour water emulsions generated in a fractionator overhead accumulator
A number of conversion processes, both hydrogen-addition-based and carbon-rejection-based, crack heavy oil into lighter hydrocarbon products.
Syngas from H2S and CO2: An alternative, pioneering synthesis route?
Hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide represent major concerns for the hydrocarbon industry. Both species are contaminants and, since their use as feedstock is minor, are considered troubling byproducts.
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