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Maintenance & Reliability

Digital: Safety, simplicity and productivity provide the value needed in plant operations

Endress+Hauser: David, A.

In today’s manufacturing environment, process automation professionals must choose from a multitude of widgets and innovations to help their plants run more smoothly.

Editorial Comment: Optimization: Advancing the industry’s evolution and benefits to the masses

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

Optimization—the action of making the best or most effective use of a situation or resource—is not a term that the hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI) takes lightly: it is a way of life.

Reliability: Exploring better compressor sour seal oil traps

Professional engineer: Bloch, H. P.

An interesting case involving sour seal oil traps in an offshore application recently came to our attention.

Taking on petrochemical plant hurdles with networking smarts

Rajant Corp.: Rivero, A.

The petrochemical industry is facing one of the most significant challenges in its history.

Risk mitigation procedure following criticality assessment and FMEA

T. A. Cook: Zou, T.

In asset performance management (APM), criticality assessment and failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) are powerful tools that enable the identification of opportunities to minimize asset lifecycle costs during the development of equipment strategies.

Process control reimagined

Yokogawa: Yamaguchi, A.  |  Ikegaya, Y.

Imagine visiting the control room of a typical process unit at a refinery.

Good distributor design for high-velocity feed debottlenecks a crude preflash tower

Bazan Group: Blum, B.
Fluor: Kister, H.
Koch-Glitsch: Tsang, R.

Bazan Group’s crude unit No. 3—not designed by any of the authors’ companies—was bottlenecked by the preflash tower.

Vapor velocity guidelines for horizontal flare knockout drums

Covestro: Kim, J. S.  |  Dunsheath, H. J.
Bechtel: Lopez, J. P.

Flare knockout (KO) drums are important components of effluent handling systems.

Thick-wall reactor shell repair procedure after damage detection at an interface in a hydrocracking unit

Central Mechanical Research Institute: Chidambaram, S.

The vessel and reactor operating in a refinery may undergo various deteriorations due to their operating conditions.

Ensuring safety in dynamic chemical manufacturing environments

ITT Goulds Pumps: Knecht, S.

As with all industries, chemical manufacturing is evolving in response to technical innovations, new customer requirements and increased global competition.