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Advantages of using TDL analyzers for safety monitoring in combustion within HPI applications

Servomex: Jenkins, R.

From refining to chemical production processes, heaters play an essential role in hydrocarbon processing applications.

Projects as programs: A vision for long-term project success

Solvay: Scofield, R.

Process industries across the globe grapple with producing dozens or even hundreds of different products.

Refinery revamp opportunities with welded plate heat exchangers

CDE Projects Ltd.: Kauders, P.
GESMEX Exchangers GmbH: Broad, R.

The plate-and-shell (P&S) heat exchanger has three significant advantages over the shell-and-tube (S&T) type traditionally used in refinery processes.

Asset life assessment: A strategic reliability tool for the process industries

Reliability and Asset Strategy Specialist: Pyne, T.

Asset life assessment (ALA) has become a strategic tool for process plants (e.g., petrochemical, chemical, and oil and gas) to determine the extent of degradation and the ability of assets to bear static and dynamic loads while sustaining the desired production processes.

Benefits of close-coupled flush rings

AS-Schneider: Ambacher, A.

The chemical industry uses flush rings for diaphragm seals.

Address measurement uncertainty in pipelines and storage

TÜV SÜD: Robson, B.

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.

Editorial Comment: Embracing uncertainty for a better tomorrow

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

The downstream processing industry is changing.

An evolving approach to digitalization

Emerson Automation Solutions: Wyatt, T.  |  Fleissman, R.

Much has been written in recent years about the need for refineries to embrace the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).

Adapting and prospering in the energy transition

Yokogawa Corp. of America: Hasegawa, K.  |  Shire, T.

The energy transition is gathering momentum as pressure from society leads policy makers and investors to demand faster and deeper cuts to carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from all industrial sectors.

Next-generation catalyst improves reliability of LPG mercaptan extraction

Motiva Enterprises: Ahmed, S.
Honeywell UOP: Mulvaney, W.  |  Nair, M.  |  Rios, R.

For decades, sulfur reduction processes have been an integral part of refinery operations.