Environment & Safety Gas Processing/LNG Maintenance & Reliability Petrochemicals Process Control Process Optimization Project Management Refining

Maintenance & Reliability

How companies can take advantage of APM solutions to reduce planned maintenance

AspenTech: Brooks, M.

According to Löfsten, “the costs of maintenance are estimated to be between 15% and 40% of production costs.” Consequently, efforts to reduce such costs without compromising risk to equipment, personnel safety and environmental integrity are welcomed.

How Bluetooth® technology extends the capabilities and connectivity of wired instrumentation

Emerson: Wiens, M.

One day at a refinery, operators call an instrument tech to the control room and point to the screen.

Advanced compressor control and monitoring systems

Elliott Group: Brun, K.  |  Omatick, T.
Tri-Sen Turbomachinery Controls: Jacoby, J.

Modern advanced control and monitoring systems for centrifugal compressors support compression plant operation at the highest possible efficiency, availability and reliability.

Maximizing profitability by operationalizing performance criteria

Seeq: Parbhoo, R.

In the hydrocarbon and other process industries, engineering and operations teams have a fundamental responsibility to maximize asset profitability.

Maintenance and Reliability: Non-standard flanges for catalytic cracking units

Garlock: Knauf, M.

In more complex petroleum refineries, a secondary processing step may be implemented in more complex petroleum refineries to produce more usable end products.

Digital Technologies: Do not just monitor bad actor machines: Start when they are healthy

ITT Goulds Pumps: Divita, R.

Often, facilities hesitate to invest in monitoring rotating equipment until the machine fails. By that time, there is no background information, such as vibration or temperature data, to help site engineers diagnose the machine’s failure. However, by implementing a remote monitoring solution on healthy equipment, users can set a baseline of machine health to gain essential insights when the machine begins to fail.

Steam-surface condensers: Lessons from the field

Graham Corp.: Lines, J. R.

Steam-surface condensers are used throughout the refining, petrochemical and chemical industries.

Emerson wins contract to automate $8.5-B Golden Triangle Polymers facility

Emerson will provide automation technologies, software and analytics from its Plantweb™ digital ecosystem for the Golden Triangle Polymers Project, a world-scale integrated polymers facility on the Texas Gulf Coast.

Executive Viewpoint: Drive the decarbonization of chemical plants through energy efficiency enhancements

Siemens Energy: Hooper, J.

Like all process industries, the chemical sector is under intense pressure to drastically reduce its carbon footprint and reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

Innovations

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Rhodes, Mike

Globally, > 90 MMbpd of crude oil, natural gas and refined hydrocarbons are produced, transported, stored and sold to end users.