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

Process Control

Hydrocarbon Processing 2021 Awards FINALISTS

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

<i>Hydrocarbon Processing</I>, the downstream processing sector’s leading technical publication for nearly 100 yr, has announced the finalists for its fifth annual <i>HP</i> Awards, which celebrate innovative technologies and people that have been instrumental in improving facility operations over the past year.

Cybersecurity: How HPI companies can protect against ransomware and other cyber threats

Sungard Availability Services: Parsons, M.  |  Corso, R.

Ransomware has become an epidemic, and critical infrastructure is in the crosshairs.

Digital: Hybrid modeling: Unlocking the value of data for oil industry assets

Kongsberg Digital: Eide, E.

We live in a world increasingly driven by data scenarios for advanced analytics, predictive modeling and machine learning (ML), but how reliable is this for large oil and gas assets where safety and reliability are of paramount importance?

Business Trends: How to achieve industrial autonomy in the refining and petrochemical industries

Honeywell Process Solutions: Millette, P.

The process industries are moving from automated to autonomous operations.

Air-to-air pneumatic booster fail-safe system for valves

Cowan Dynamics: Aguirre, M.

In pneumatic valve automation systems, it is common to hear the following terms for valve positions: “fail open (FO),” “fail close (FC)” and “fail last (FL)”.

Rigorous modeling of CO2 absorbers using potassium carbonate solutions

Fluor Canada Ltd.: Ha, H. Z.
Fluor Corp.: Mathias, P. M.

As part of the global campaign to reduce CO<sub>2</sub> emissions, carbon capture and reduction are receiving increased attention from a variety of process industries, especially power generation and oil and gas exploration and production.

Industry Perspectives

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

On October 28, <i>Hydrocarbon Processing</i> will announce the winners of the 2021 <i>HP</> Awards during a virtual streaming event.

Industry Perspectives

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

In mid-August, <i>Hydrocarbon Processing</i> announced the finalists of the 2021 <i>HP</i> Awards, celebrating innovative technologies and people that have been instrumental in improving facility operations over the past year and are making the HPI safer, more efficient and more profitable.

Enhanced unit monitoring enabled by digital twin

KBC, a Yokogawa Company: Chellani, J.
Saudi Aramco: Winter, G.  |  Alshaikh, A.

Process engineers must continuously monitor the health and performance of process units.

Monitor ppb monomer impurities and catalyst poisons with process GC-MS

Wasson-ECE Instrumentation: Wasson, J.  |  Russell, T.

Competition in the ethylene market is fierce and demands for the quality of the ethylene are increasing. High-purity monomers are used to make polyethylene and polypropylene, the polymeric building blocks for two important plastics.