Environment & Safety
Consider membrane technologies to treat oily wastewater
Advanced methods enable recycling process water for plant applications
What can you do to enhance the safety of operations?
The US Chemical Safety Board's fatal blast report makes it imperative to take a serious look at your plant's loss prevention practices, particularly the instrumentation and sensors that provide critical information for prompt action
HP Automation Safety: Still not using a safety PLC?
The concept of using a special-purpose programmable logic control (PLC)/controller designed for fail-safe operation started over 25 years ago. The early programmable machines were designed applying th..
Choosing the wrong flame arrestor can prevent capacity enhancement
This Iranian gas facility debottlenecked its process and increased production
Clean fuel trends in Asia: Contribution of MTBE
Growing vehicle population requires innovative solutions to curb air emissions
Improve prediction of cetane index and smoke point
New correlations more accurately estimate properties for conventional and oil sands-derived middle distillates
New power approach reduces air emissions
Integrating binary power plants conserves heat energy and generates electricity for bitumen extraction site
Consider coal for olefins production
Advanced methods use methanol as a valuable processing step to convert coal into various petrochemicals
HP Automation Safety: All failures are systematic
      For many years, a debate has been ongoing over random vs. systematic failures. Why all the fuss? In functional safety work, one must treat "systematic" failures very differently f..
Your control room may not be in the safest plant location
Here's how to ensure that operators can provide their peak performance
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