Loss Prevention
Valve design reduces costs and increases safety for US refineries
The goals were achieved by using alloys with superior corrosion resistance
Estimating tank calibration uncertainty
Use these calculations for a specific tank calibration
HP Automation Safety: Cyber security certification for automation products and suppliers
The United Steelworkers Union (USW) issued a press release chastising the oil industry for the series of fires and explosions that keep happening at US refineries. USW pointed out that there has been ..
Frontier Oil reports fire at Cheyenne refinery crude unit
Frontier Oil Corp. experienced a fire yesterday at approximately 5:40 a.m. MDT in the crude unit at its refinery in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The fire was extinguished within approximately one hour by refinery and city fire personnel.
Finetune boil-off gas generation from refrigerated storage facilities
Improved estimation methods accurately calculate vaporized product for LNG and LPG storage and transfer systems
Discover new trends in oily wastewater reclamation
Refiners can find profits by ‘upgrading’ treatment and recycling process water
Automation improves asset reliability for refiners
Several case studies illustrate how automating boiler systems can yield tremendous improvement in equipment uptime and lower total operating costs
HP Reliability: Not ready for 29-year-old pump packing
In 2009 we were informed about “a nuclear plant that was never commissioned after its original construction. This plant has been sitting idle for 29 years and is only now starting up.” The o..
HP Integration Strategies: The three dimensions of energy management
While we’ve seen many examples of good practices in energy savings and efficiency initiatives, and hear much discussion about the merits of energy-management systems (EMSs), energy management lac..
Advice for 2011: Be dynamic, be flexible; more pain to come
“Analyze this” is the fad quote and action that actor Robert De Niro famously demands of his unwilling therapist in the film of the same name. Playing Paul Vitti, a New York gangland supremo..
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