Process Optimization
Advanced process control: quick and easy energy savings
Here are some of the energy savings benefits routinely produced by implementing advanced process control
Consider low-voltage AC drives for hazardous areas
Such drives used with electric motors can offer significant process improvements and energy savings for equipment used in explosive zones
Trading silicon for carbon: how to reduce energy usage through automation
The average plant can conservatively achieve 15% energy savings through this technology
How to avoid interface engineering problems
Here are several ways to accurately exchange information
HP Water Management: What's happening with the Legionella Standard?-Part 2
The present draft document provides more than performance metrics, it specifically details a single set of mandatory monitoring practices and corrective actions—the "exclusively correct practice..
Design your sulfur facility with market uncertainty in mind
These strategies can effectively deliver sulfur to the marketplace
Flow-induced fatigue failure
Case histories describe a variety of failures and solutions
Strategize preshutdown work to enhance productivity
Adopt these principles from a refinery revamp project
Consider CFD analysis to support critical separation operations
This modeling method can help eliminate chronic problems caused by feed mal-distribution and poorly designed feed devices
HP Water Management: What's happening with the Legionella Standard?—Part 1
In 2007, the governing board of the Cooling Technology Institute (CTI) formed a committee to craft a new standard, "Legionellosis Related Practices for Evaporative Cooling Water Systems" (CTI STD-159)..
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