The following is a mixture of technical articles, columns and headlines published in the 1950s by Petroleum Refiner, the forerunner to Hydrocarbon Processing.
Advanced industrial data analytics has a prominent role to play in process control and automation.
As refineries and petrochemical complexes worldwide are moving toward more automated operations, plant operators are increasingly becoming dependent on process alarms for safe, smooth and continuous operation.
Big data is making tremendous changes in various sectors of the economy, and chemical industries can now leverage these new advancements.
Over the last 40 yr, centrifugal compressor manufacturers have compiled a vast array of impellers and associated stationary components, allowing for higher efficiency staging.
Many view COP26—the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland—as a missed opportunity.
When the challenging position of manager is assumed in a refinery, one of the first orders of business is to “survive” an upcoming process safety management (PSM) compliance audit.
Refineries in oil-importing nations typically process a blend of crude oils, rather than a single crude oil, to ensure that an optimum product mix can be obtained at the minimum costs.
Ajayi, V., Ernst & Young;
Carroll, M., Georgia Pacific;
Chevis, M., Guffman Ventures;
Gil-Ortega, A. V., Fortinet;
Habibi, E., PAS Global;
Klotz, T., Covanta;
Laas, J.,
Wilcox, S., PNM Resources
Digitalization and Industry 4.0 initiatives require tight integration between complex, heterogeneous and highly complex industrial control systems (ICS) and enterprise information technology (IT).
A few years ago, Hydrocarbon Processing started to include digital technologies in its monthly article focus.