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Revamping a hydrocracker’s overhead condenser
A stepwise approach solved seasonal issues affecting plans to increase a hydrocracker’s capacity
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Reducing hydrogen consumption in diesel hydrotreating
Fractionating a raw diesel stream before hydrotreating reduces consumption of hydrogen to produce high quality diesel.
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Canadian crude processing challenges
Vacuum unit design influences liquid volume yields, run length, product yield and product quality when processing bitumen crude oils
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Comparison of ideal stage and mass transfer models for separation processes
The design and optimisation of separation processes is carried out using process simulators that utilise various calculation approaches. Two techniques ...
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Case study: How Shell is navigating the energy transition (ERTC)
Although the transportation sector’s trend towards electrification offers important climate change and air quality benefits, it presents many energy ...
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HDXRF vs ICP for nickel and vanadium in crude oil
Technology introduced over the last decade, such as horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, has led to new sources of light tight oil (LTO).
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Maximising profitability with FCC feeds from opportunity crudes
Case studies show how to achieve optimal monetisation value with opportunity feeds through operating strategies, innovative catalysts and technical st ...
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Towards a zero gasoline production refinery: part 2
Refinery configurations can suit various processing objectives, such as variations to the propylene-to-ethylene ratio and production of middle distillates ...
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Increased flexibility and profitability from hydroprocessing catalyst
(White Paper) Refiners have faced, and will continue to face, numerous external challenges from multiple fronts to maintain a profitable operation. While ...
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Fifty years of CCR platforming
Professionals in the oil and gas industry today may not remember when gasoline was sold in multiple grades that included fuels containing tetraethyl l ...
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Planning a turnaround that fits
A risk based work selection process screens worklist items to ensure they are justified for risk reduction or financial benefit as part of a turnaroun ...
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Renewable Identification Numbers, sulphur credit pricing and economics
Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs) are credits used to certify compliance with the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) which requires certain minimum volumes ...
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Selecting turboexpanders for PDH
Expander compressors with active magnetic bearings increase reliability and simplify operations with lower maintenance costs in a propane dehydrogenation ...
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Effective preparation for turnarounds
Defining the objectives, planning thoroughly and ensuring operator readiness will increase the likelihood of a successful turnaround.
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SMR for fuel cell grade hydrogen
Affordable and sustainable production of blue hydrogen is key to the successful use of fuel cells in transportation.
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Revamping an integrated hydrocracker and lube base oil unit
Process and catalytic advances enabled large-scale expansion of an integrated unit to increase fuels and base oil production.
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More petrochemicals with less capital spending
Even in nations with exceptional dependence on transportation fuels like Brazil, better integration with petrochemicals production is essential for re ...
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Managing fouling in refinery networks
Modelling heat exchanger and other networks enables the use of dynamic fouling models in performance assessment and predictive studies
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Experimental phase balance assessment for duplex stainless steel welded pipe
This paper discusses the assessment of weld metal ferrite content in duplex stainless steel pipe welded at a 45˚angle
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Delek brings refineries into synchronised digital maturity
Since the company was founded in the early 2000s, the business strategy at Delek US Holdings, Inc. has focused on rapid growth through acquisition of downstream ...
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Computation of heat conduction in welding of thick wall reactor vessels
The welding of reactors in refinery is complex due to various phase formation during and after welding. Each phase was unique with success of welding lies ...
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CCS from refinery emissions: CO2 purity must be analysed and controlled
One of the most promising measures to decarbonise refinery operations is carbon capture and storage (CCS) from existing combustion processes, such as process ...
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IMO 2020 - Maritime CEMS and refinery changes
For several years, the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has stipulated low levels of sulphur emissions close to densely populated coastal areas, ...
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Fifty years of CCR platforming
Professionals in the oil and gas industry today may not remember when gasoline was sold in multiple grades that included fuels containing tetraethyl l ...
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Managing fouling in refinery networks
Modelling heat exchanger and other networks enables the use of dynamic fouling models in performance assessment and predictive studies
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Understanding basic principles of flow calculations
Valve size often is described by the nominal size of the end connections, but a more important measure is the flow that the valve can provide.
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Spent sulphuric acid regeneration (SAR) process
Several chemical processes utilise concentrated sulphuric acid as a catalyst or dehydrating agent, in which the acid becomes “spent”; ie, weakened ...
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Processing high TAN crude: part I
Huizhou, which is the first refinery for processing 100% high TAN crude, started up in 2009. This article describes the challenges of an opportunity crude ...
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Hydrogen generation for modern refineries
With increasing demand for diesel, more stringent product specifications for cleaner fuels, reduced fuel oil demand and the economic advantages in processing ...
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Sour water strippers: design and operation
Simpler, more cost-effective sour water stripper designs can outperform more generally accepted designs in the refining industry
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Naphtha catalytic cracking for propylene production
Investment in on-purpose propylene production technology based on naphtha-based feedstock is taking on various process configurations
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Gasifying coke to produce hydrogen in refineries
Coke gasification to produce hydrogen for hydroprocessing is more capital intensive than steam methane reforming, but not so vulnerable to natural gas ...
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Increased flexibility and profitability from hydroprocessing catalyst
(White Paper) Refiners have faced, and will continue to face, numerous external challenges from multiple fronts to maintain a profitable operation. While ...
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ENAP Refinerías selects scrubbing technology from BELCO®
Chilean oil refiner ENAP Refinerías S.A. has selected BELCO® scrubbing technology, licensed by DuPont Clean Technologies (DuPont), to improve emissions ...
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Mammoet supports modernisation of lMiRo refinery
The Mineraloelraffinerie Oberrhein (MiRo) in Karlsruhe is preparing for its major scheduled turnaround in 2021. As part of this, the reactor head of the ...
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Altrad secures contracts at Total Lindsey Oil Refinery
Altrad are pleased to announce the signature of two long term contracts with Total Lindsey Oil Refinery in North Lincolnshire, UK in support of their operations ...
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Hengli Petrochemical selects burner technology from Honeywell UOP
Honeywell announced today that Hengli Petrochemical Co. Ltd. successfully used Callidus burner technology from Honeywell UOP to minimize nitrogen ...
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Chart Industries and Matrix Service Company execute commercial Hydrogen MoU
Chart Industries Inc, a leading diversified global manufacturer of highly engineered equipment for the industrial gas and clean energy industries today ...
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Neste and Avfuel create strategic partnership for sustainable aviation fuel
Neste and Avfuel Corporation announce a strategic partnership to create an efficient, continuous supply of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in the United ...
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Honeywell Introduces a single-stage UOP Ecofining™ technology
Honeywell today announced that it has introduced a single-stage UOP Ecofining™ technology offering for the production of renewable diesel fuel. The new ...
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Inter Pipeline awards master site services and supply contract to Worley
Worley has been awarded a master site services and supply contract by Inter Pipeline Ltd for its Heartland Petrochemical Complex located in Alberta, Canada. The ...
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Sinopec award ethylene expansion contract to Wood
Wood has secured a contract valued at over $120 million with Sinopec Hainan Refining and Chemical Limited Company (Sinopec) to provide engineering, procurement ...
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ENAP Refinerías selects scrubbing technology from BELCO®
Chilean oil refiner ENAP Refinerías S.A. has selected BELCO® scrubbing technology, licensed by DuPont Clean Technologies (DuPont), to improve emissions ...
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Altrad secures contracts at Total Lindsey Oil Refinery
Altrad are pleased to announce the signature of two long term contracts with Total Lindsey Oil Refinery in North Lincolnshire, UK in support of their operations ...
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Hengli Petrochemical selects burner technology from Honeywell UOP
Honeywell announced today that Hengli Petrochemical Co. Ltd. successfully used Callidus burner technology from Honeywell UOP to minimize nitrogen ...
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Inter Pipeline awards master site services and supply contract to Worley
Worley has been awarded a master site services and supply contract by Inter Pipeline Ltd for its Heartland Petrochemical Complex located in Alberta, Canada. The ...
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Sinopec award ethylene expansion contract to Wood
Wood has secured a contract valued at over $120 million with Sinopec Hainan Refining and Chemical Limited Company (Sinopec) to provide engineering, procurement ...
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Penspen wins additional detailed engineering project from Target Engineering Construction
We have secured a detailed engineering project award from Target Engineering Construction Company, a leading engineering, procurement and ...
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L&T Hydrocarbon wins EPCC contract for Petrochemical FCC unit
L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering, a wholly owned subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro, has won an order from HPCL Rajasthan Refinery Limited, a joint venture ...
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Maire Tecnimont strengthens its petrochemical business in India
Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. announces that its subsidiary Tecnimont SpA, through its Indian entity Tecnimont Private Limited, has been awarded an EPCC (Engineering, ...
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Successful operation of Axens’ units and digitalization at the ERC refinery
All Axens’ units of the Egyptian Refining Company (ERC) refinery project are now successfully operating and reaching full production and performances. The ...
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Mammoet supports modernisation of lMiRo refinery
The Mineraloelraffinerie Oberrhein (MiRo) in Karlsruhe is preparing for its major scheduled turnaround in 2021. As part of this, the reactor head of the ...
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Chart Industries and Matrix Service Company execute commercial Hydrogen MoU
Chart Industries Inc, a leading diversified global manufacturer of highly engineered equipment for the industrial gas and clean energy industries today ...
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Neste and Avfuel create strategic partnership for sustainable aviation fuel
Neste and Avfuel Corporation announce a strategic partnership to create an efficient, continuous supply of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in the United ...
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Honeywell Introduces a single-stage UOP Ecofining™ technology
Honeywell today announced that it has introduced a single-stage UOP Ecofining™ technology offering for the production of renewable diesel fuel. The new ...
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Sharjah National Oil Corporation launches gas storage project
Sharjah National Oil Corporation (SNOC) has announced the start-up of its new gas storage project. This follows a small-scale pilot phase using existing ...
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KBR awarded a master services agreement from LanzaTech
KBR announced today it has been awarded a Master Services Agreement by LanzaTech to provide engineering services for their global carbon recycling technology ...
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Nikkiso Cryogenic Industries Group sells turboexpander business line to Air Liquide
Nikkiso Cryogenic Industries’ Clean Energy and Industrial Gases Group (Group), a part of Nikkiso Co., Ltd (Japan), announces the sale of its Turboexpander ...
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TechnipFMC resumes plan to separate into two industry leading companies
TechnipFMC plc today announced the resumption of activities toward its planned separation into two industry-leading, independent, publicly traded ...
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Shell invests in waste to low carbon fuels plant
Shell will have a 40% interest in the plant using technology developed by Enerkem, a leading Canadian clean tech company. Enerkem announced the project ...
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Dräger releases new multigas detector, X-act 7000
Concentrations of hazardous substances in the ambient air at the workplace should not exceed specified limit values. Monitoring these sometimes very low ...
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Honeywell introduces virtual reality-based simulator
Honeywell today announced the introduction of an advanced industrial training solution that combines 3D immersive technology with industry-leading operator ...
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Yokogawa to release plant resource manager (PRM) R4.04
Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces the November 20 release of Plant Resource Manager (PRM™) R4.04, the latest version of a software package in the ...
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SPECTRO introduces SPECTROGREEN TI ICP-OES analyzer
SPECTRO Analytical Instruments has introduced the newest version of its SPECTROGREEN inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES) ...
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BASF adds to its selective hydrogenation catalysts portfolio
A new series of commercially proven alumina catalysts is now available with new performance features that can benefit selective hydrogenation applications ...
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Emerson launches the Rosemount™ 700XA gas chromatograph
Emerson today introduced the Rosemount™ 700XA gas chromatograph (GC), the industry’s first single-analyzer solution to provide measurement of sulfur ...
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FLIR Systems introduces Vue TZ20 dual thermal camera drone payload
Plug-and-Play Gimbal System for the DJI Matrice 200 Series and Matrice 300 Offers High-Definition FLIR Thermal Imaging with Zoom Capabilities to Improve ...
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REMBE® Q-Ball® E guarantees maximum venting efficiency with minimum weight
As a pioneer in developing flameless explosion venting systems, REMBE® has fundamentally changed the world of explosion protection. With the Q-Ball® ...
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KBC releases value chain optimization manifesto
KBC (A Yokogawa Company) has released its Value Chain Optimization Manifesto to help asset owners and operators in the Energy and Chemicals industry drive ...
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Three cost effective ways to strengthen trays against uplift
Several common operating conditions cause tray damage, including high liquid levels, free water flashing at the bottom of the column, and excessive pressure ...
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Industry 4.0-ready flash point analyzer. MINIFLASH FP VISION is part of Grabner Instruments Vision analyzer family. The flash point tester MINIFLASH FP ...
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Using chemical analysis to diagnose amine upsets
Using chemical analysis from your amine supplier to diagnose your amine system? Understanding the link between the analysis report and the amine system ...
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RIVE® FCC catalyst represents the first and only use of ordered mesoporosity in FCC zeolites or catalysts, and is capable of providing a step change ...
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Isomalk-4 C7 paraffin isomerization technology
Isomalk-4 is a low-temperature isomerization technology for processing C7 paraffins contained in wide-range naphtha streams. In a conventional refinery ...
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Valves especially designed for the use in Claus-units / processes. Upon request: Special design for desulphurization of natural gas / gas conditioning. ...
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John Zink Hamworthy Combustion Corporate Fact Sheet
Our customers produce the world’s energy, chemicals, and plastics, and eliminate harmful emissions from the air, water, and soil. We help them operate ...
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Effective water removal creates extra capacity in your absorber-stripper
Free or soluble water carrying over from the FCC or Coker Main Fractionator overhead systems can cause foaming problems and flooding in the Absorber-Stripper ...
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High performance tray tower solutions
Advanced distillation column design. Revamping distillation columns requires a solid process design background, particularly when conducting evaluations ...
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Reactors - reduce catalyst loss, optimise conversion, and identify critical problems
Tracerco can help you reduce catalyst loss in your reactor, optimise conversion, and identify the source of critical problems. Using our specialist ...
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ExxonMobol InFocus™ Online platform
Watch how you can maximize profits, production and efficiency with innovative tools that enable close collaboration with ExxonMobil experts to give you ...
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Grabner Instruments distillation unit
MINIDIS ADXpert is a portable, true atmospheric und automatic distillation analyzer for the analysis of hydrocarbons, solvents and other liquids. Designed ...
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5th opportunity crudes conference
Consider joining us for the 5th Opportunity Crudes Conference, to be held in Houston, Texas in Oct. 2016. The theme is "Effective Ways to Evaluate, ...
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Introduction to wet gas sulfuric acid technology
The WSA technology is an excellent alternative to the Claus technology for sulfur management within oil refining, coal gasification, gas sweetening etc. ...
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Scottsville refining facilities tour
Would you like to see how we maximize returns in precious metals refining? Please take a brief tour of our Scottsville refining facility.
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Honeywell UOP Flare Pilot Flame Ionization Detector
The UOP Callidus flare pilot ionization system is designed to detect flame under all-weather conditions and lasts longer than other flame ionization t ...
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Verified hydrocarbon analysis the new standard for individual and bulk hydrocarbon characterization
Detailed hydrocarbon analysis (DHA) has long been the go-to method of choice when it comes to robust analysis of various hydrocarbon streams. Consisting ...
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Working at Axens: 3 questions to Stéphanie Parisse-Faux
From Axens corporate culture to career development prospects, Axens’ Executive Vice President & In-House Communications Stéphanie Parisse-Faux ...
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How turbocompressors drive and safeguard downstream plant operations
This webinar reaches out to end users in the hydrocarbon industry who face the challenge of achieving operational availability, equipment reliability, ...
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How to achieve operational excellence with safe and profitable operating windows
Plant of the Future’ is making headway towards operational excellence using technologies that enable safe and efficient operations to improve your bottom ...
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Learn how to build refinery models quickly and easily to support your LP model
In this webinar we will present refinery modelling workflows, features and functionalities, which showcase Honeywell Forge Process Simulation’ refinery-wide ...
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Ensuring business continuity in industrial operations
Join this webinar to discover the multiple areas in your organization where Honeywell Forge can help ensure the reliability, efficiency, and safety of ...
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A layered approach to achieving plant-wide optimization goals
Join this webinar to discover the multiple areas in your organization where Honeywell Forge can help ensure the reliability, efficiency, and safety of ...
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Driving machine learning through fundamental machinery diagnostics
Join Honeywell’s APM specialist, Ben Berwick, as he discusses how Honeywell leverages Asset Performance Management technology to recognize the earliest ...
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High-Performance Tail-Gas Treating
Discover the benefits of applying the latest technology in modern, low-temperature Shell Claus offgas treating (SCOT™) units. See how next-generation, ...
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Digital Reliability: 24/7 Real-time Machinery Diagnostics
Dynamics SPC discusses our turnkey solution we call COMPACS. COMPACS monitors the health of your equipment in real-time. We’ve spent close to three decades ...
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Simplify crude assay importing in UniSim design by utilizing H/CAMS
Haverly H/CAMS is the industry leading assay crude management software with over 2000 assays. Honeywell's UniSim Design software links to Haverly H/CAMS ...