In the oil and gas industry, failing to perform ongoing maintenance on equipment can have severe consequences, including reduced equipment service life, unplanned shutdowns and degraded performance.
In this issue, the finalists for Hydrocarbon Processing’s third annual HP Awards are detailed.
Hydrocarbon Processing, the downstream processing sector’s leading technical publication, has announced the finalists for its third annual awards.
Analyzers are a key component of process automation and are usually associated with stereotypes such as high costs, intensive maintenance, complicated installations and operation, and doubtful reliability and accuracy.
Tank farms are often found on the premises of large refineries and petrochemical plants, or nearby.
From refining to chemical production processes, heaters play an essential role in hydrocarbon processing applications.
Process industries across the globe grapple with producing dozens or even hundreds of different products.
How would you measure the volume of a can of soup? The height should work, but what about diameter? Or, you can possibly just trust what the manufacturer has told you on the label.
Some basic, yet insightful, machinery reliability tracking tools are introduced here that can be developed with common spreadsheet applications, such as Excel.