Artificial intelligence (AI) has caused a significant buzz not only within the hydrocarbon processing industry but also in everyday activities.
Just as some people seek out extreme sports, process manufacturing has its extreme applications, and engineers who design for these environments must find ways to safely contain and monitor all manner of dangerous reactions and products.
A prominent manufacturer rediscovered the old axiom, “pushing the limit can have unexpected consequences,” after experiencing many bearing failures in its 40-hp air blowers. These lifetime-lubricated (sealed) bearings had been properly installed on 20-mm shafts, and it can be assumed that premium greases were being used.
Over the past five years, the industrial evolution has been propelled by the same technologies that have dramatically changed our private lives.
In the practice of engineering, we sometimes wish for better hindsight or foresight.
Centrifugal compressors are designed with different suction nozzle orientations and impeller layouts in casing.
Al-Ghamdi, A.,
Al-Dossary, S. H.,
Al-Dhafiri, A.,
Al-Zahrani, M., Saudi Aramco;
Navrotsky, V., Siemens Energy
Additive manufacturing (AM), also known as 3D metallic printing, is identified as one of the game-changing technologies in recent years for the oil and gas industry.
When a long-time maintenance supervisor was promoted to the head of his refinery’s reliability department, he wanted to make “Precision Maintenance is Our Passion” his banner and headline.
With the increasing prominence of hydrogen technologies circulating into the global market, Gulf Energy Information—publisher of Hydrocarbon Processing and Gas Processing & LNG—has launched our latest publication: H2Tech.
When WirelessHART first hit the market in 2008, most of the native devices using it were process measurement instruments.