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Analyzers

Mitigating corrosion challenges from opportunity crudes

Emerson Automation Solutions: Wold, K.

High-quality crudes are not always readily available, or at a price that is acceptable to the producer’s budget.

HP Awards 2018 Best Analyzer Technology

In 2018, more than 80 nominations were submitted from 18 countries for the HP Awards. Each abstract was voted on by an independent Hydrocarbon Processing advisory board. Here's a look back at the winner for the Best Analyzer Technology in 2018.

Case study for a high-performing refinery loss control program

Emerson Automation Solutions: Valentine, J.
YPF: Videla, R.

Most refineries have some sort of mass balance and loss control program in place for accounting, planning and scheduling, as well as for financial and operational evaluation purposes.

Innovations

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Rhodes, Mike

Industrial workers can strengthen their grasp of production and make more informed operating decisions with the new Allen-Bradley CompactLogix 5480 controller by Rockwell Automation.

Digital: Digitalization—Why now?

KBC, a Yokogawa Company: Micklem, D.

The process industries are under threat.

Fluid Flow: Retrofit for reliability with Coriolis flowmeters

Emerson Automation Solutions: Gentile, A.

Aging infrastructure has become a much-talked-about issue across the hydrocarbon industry.

Implement AI to predict the composition of chemical plant feed

Chemical Technologies Inc.: Giiazov, O.  |  Shalupkin, D.  |  Ermulin, A.  |  Stremousov, G.

An important indicator of the technological processes at chemical plants is the composition of the main flows, including feed, products and intermediate flows.

Reliability: Things to ponder when specifying sensor technology for pumps

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

The application of wireless sensors to monitor process pump hydraulic performance and defect progression in the power end of pumps is of interest to pump users.

Editorial Comment: The materials that advance modern life

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

Refineries and petrochemical plants contain some of the harshest environments on the planet.

Fluid Flow: Advanced flow dynamics analysis reduces design time for high-performance processes

NAPCON: Ory, E.  |  Vepsäläinen, A.

For a process facility, guaranteeing maximum profit over its lifecycle while increasing safety and taking care of environmental aspects means continuous improvement toward operational excellence.