ARTICLES
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Alarm floods and plant incidents
Jul-2012
Alarm floods and their contribution to industrial incidents can be controlled successfully through all process states
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Detection of VOCs demands continuous innovation in calibration gases
Oct-2011
With an ever-increasing number of processing plants coming on stream worldwide to keep up with the burgeoning petrochemical industry, the focus on the ...
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Controlling film temperature in fired heaters
Jan-2013
Film temperature control is critical to the successful design of fired heaters, especially for heaters employed in upgrading heavy feedstocks
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Abatement of hydrogen sulphide in asphalt
Jan-2012
Risks of exposure at asphalt loading platforms require reliable monitoring of H2S levels and a programme of abatement using effective chemical scaveng ...
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Controlling the hydrocarbon dew point of pipeline gas
Jul-2017
A key factor in selecting technology to control the hydrocarbon dew point of natural gas is the quantity of heavy hydrocarbons in the feed stream
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Speciality gases: essential for research, production and quality control
Jul-2011
Laboratories all around the world stand or fall by their reputation for accuracy and quality control. Pivotal to this performance is the quality, purity ...
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Optimising profits by blending butane (TIA)
Jun-2015
Many countries legally mandate the observation of the maximum gasoline vapour pressure to prevent air pollution and ensure the safe transport and storage ...
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Consolidation of refinery control rooms
Jan-2012
Migration of a refinery’s DCS provided an opportunity to reconfigure and consolidate the control rooms and operational management system
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Apr-2011
Fibre optic distributed temperature sensing has several advantages over conventional real-time data sensors in cryogenic leak detection at LNG termina ...
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Role of fired heater safety systems
Jul-2013
A fully automated burner management system operating as a SIS for burner control can meet minimum safety targets, improve system availability and lower ...
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Flow metering vacuum tower bottoms
Oct-2011
A clamp-on ultrasonic flow meter can make flow measurement at the bottom of vacuum distillation towers more reliable
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Ensuring an accurate reading in a differential pressure steam application
Dec-2013
A common process instrumentation application measures differential pressure in a steam line, with the final output being a flow rate measurement. The process ...
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Operator training simulator for a multi-product fuels pipeline
Jan-2013
An operator training simulator for a fuel products pipeline system was developed and delivered before the pipeline was completed to train personnel in ...
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Connected data improves refinery operations
Sep-2016
Connecting data with a common knowledge management platform improves visibility, response, and analysis to benefit refinery operations
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Using APC in refinery energy systems – develop your own solutions
Oct-2013
Advanced Process Control (APC) has been used extensively to assist in operating refinery and petrochemical processes smoothly, safely and profitably.
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Isokinetic nozzles for steam sampling
Nov-2016
The proper design of a sampling system is critical for a sample that is representative of the stream to be measured.
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Advanced process control in FCC and hydrocracking units
Apr-2015
Implementation of advanced process control of two major units produced significant savings with short payback times
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Sharing the load: proper control methods for parallel refrigeration compressors
Jan-2015
Parallel refrigeration machines have been in use for decades in the LNG industry primarily for the Phillips Cascade LNG process which utilises parallel ...
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Wireless technology in the refinery
Oct-2009
Wireless data gathering can mean lower capital costs and gains in efficiency, provided the limitations of available bandwidth are taken into considera ...
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Selective control for a total reflux column
Jul-2014
Operating problems with a de-ethaniser column led to the development of a new strategy for an advanced process control system
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Improving crude unit operation
Jan-2011
Most crude and vacuum units present an opportunity for improvement using modern process control systems
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Better yield accounting methods improve financial results
Apr-2014
A yield accounting system can improve the efficiency of solving material balance errors and correct measurement errors throughout an entire facility
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Real-time downstream dashboard
Oct-2010
Real-time infrastructure enabled an organisational transformation to achieve integration in a highly complex downstream supply chain
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Real-time refinery energy management
Oct-2009
An online model installed at Repsol Cartagena refinery enables optimal balance between internal energy production and demand
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Automation of tank farm systems
Sep-2016
Automation helps to streamline operations as well as supply and demand planning, sales orders and inventory in tank management.
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Refinery protection with gas detection
Apr-2020
Based on several recent M&A transaction valuations it is fair to say that the price tag of a medium-sized, medium-complexity refinery in Europe is in the ...
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Alarm floods and plant incidents
Jul-2012
Alarm floods and their contribution to industrial incidents can be controlled successfully through all process states
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Detection of VOCs demands continuous innovation in calibration gases
Oct-2011
With an ever-increasing number of processing plants coming on stream worldwide to keep up with the burgeoning petrochemical industry, the focus on the ...
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The business case for digitalisation in the refining sector
Apr-2020
When we use the word ‘digitalisation’ what do we really mean? Computers have been used for process control since Fortran 77 was developed in the late ...
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Controlling film temperature in fired heaters
Jan-2013
Film temperature control is critical to the successful design of fired heaters, especially for heaters employed in upgrading heavy feedstocks
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Speciality gases: essential for research, production and quality control
Jul-2011
Laboratories all around the world stand or fall by their reputation for accuracy and quality control. Pivotal to this performance is the quality, purity ...
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Apr-2017
Predictive analytics is an evolving technology with many potential applications in and gains for the process industries
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Best practice for refinery flowsheets
Aug-2019
Refinery-wide flowsheets can demonstrate the true representation of changes in key operating variables and their associated impact on refinery operati ...
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Real-time downstream dashboard
Oct-2010
Real-time infrastructure enabled an organisational transformation to achieve integration in a highly complex downstream supply chain
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A better approach to detailed hydrocarbon analysis with Verified Hydrocarbon Analysis™
Nov-2019
Most refineries rely on Detailed Hydrocarbon Analysis (DHA) to analyse and monitor specific contents of their fuel streams. While this technique has been ...
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Nature of errors in machinery diagnostics
Jan-2020
A reliability theory has been developing for almost 70 years, and all the time scientists, engineers and practitioners attempt to point out an instance ...
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Monitoring and simulation resolves overhead corrosion
Mar-2016
Online corrosion monitoring in tandem with simulation modelling identified the root cause of corrosion in a crude unit overhead
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Predicting middle distillate properties
Apr-2019
Development of on-stream correlation models to predict cloud point, flash point and freezing point and increase production of on-spec jet fuel using a ...
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Data operations transform fuels value
May-2019
A refiner applied advanced analytics to develop techniques for processing opportunity crudes which minimise negative effects on the plant.
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Digital twins enhance LNG plant performance
May-2019
Digitalisation technologies offer new and disruptive ways to overcome the challenges of increasing margin, reducing carbon emissions and addressing talent ...
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Where transparency-driven value comes from
Jan-2020
Safe and sustainable operation is a key factor for the profitability of every processing business, such as a petroleum refinery.
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Jul-2015
How to maximise the life cycle of control systems used in turbomachinery
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Packed bed performance analytics
Jun-2018
Advanced analytics introduce a numerical and easily understood approach to tower gamma scanning.
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Sep-2016
The Industrial Internet of Things promises to be the biggest influence on plant automation systems since the advent of distributed control systems
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Connected data improves refinery operations
Sep-2016
Connecting data with a common knowledge management platform improves visibility, response, and analysis to benefit refinery operations
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Apr-2017
Finite element analysis can be employed to improve the safety and quality of old or new designs and troubleshoot problems in the field
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Apr-2017
Mercury has been elevated to the status of a pollutant of global concern owing to some of its unique toxic properties which pose environmental and health ...
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Three ways to effectively monitor total chlorine in liquid hydrocarbons
Feb-2018
Corrosion at petroleum refineries is a critical problem all over the world. In the United States alone, NACE International, a professional association ...
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Process flow determines coker heater performance
Jun-2018
Uniform tube metal temperature resulting from a change in process flow enhances the run length of a delayed coker heater.
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Using APC in refinery energy systems – develop your own solutions
Oct-2013
Advanced Process Control (APC) has been used extensively to assist in operating refinery and petrochemical processes smoothly, safely and profitably.
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Enable cost savings and optimise production with real-time sulphur results
Aug-2020
(White Paper) - The demand for biofuels has increased in recent years, with the EU requiring that 10% of the total transport fuel in its member countries ...
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Troubleshooting premature tower flooding
Aug-2020
(White Paper) - Thorough analysis of field data and tray hydraulics together with gamma scanning were key factors in the successful troubleshooting of ...
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Molecular management for refinery-petrochemical complexes
Aug-2020
(White Paper) - Designing a digital twin for process simulation of an integrated complex enables enhanced molecular management to deliver higher margin.The ...
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Aug-2020
(White Paper) - How MOL used a new approach to data to improve plant diagnostics, adopt alternate crudes and save millions.
The petroleum ... -
Cutting the cost of refinery process control and CEMS gas analysis
Aug-2020
Developments in equipment functionality to reduce maintenance costs, innovative service delivery which can enable outsourcing and an array of digital solutions ...
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Analyser delivers fast quality checks for biorefinery (TIA)
Aug-2020
The demand for biofuels has increased in recent years, with the EU requiring that 10% of the total transport fuel in its member countries is to come from ...
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Precision Comparison Case Study — HDXRF® vs ICP (IP 501 & IP 621)
Jul-2020
As petroleum professionals continue to refine their production processes, products such as crude oil, residual fuel oils, and VGO can contain higher concentrations ...
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Decarbonization, electrification and the case for modern electric process heaters
Jul-2020
Companies in liquified natural gas (LNG) and other industries have been taking bold steps to reduce their carbon footprint.
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Delek brings refineries into synchronised digital maturity
Jul-2020
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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Detailed hydrocarbon analysis (DHA) – past, present and future Part 1
Jul-2020
A Historical Perspective. In the 1990s, gasoline regulations were changing rapidly. Lead antiknock compounds were banned. Typical gasoline benzene levels ...
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2019: The Year of Gasoline Analysis on the VUV Analyzer™ Platform
Jul-2020
VUV Analytics™, pioneers of developing analytical tools based on vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) detection technology, is dedicated to providing fast, easy, ...
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Detailed hydrocarbon analysis (DHA) – past, present and future Part 2
Jul-2020
In part two of this series I want to focus on the future of detailed hydrocarbon analysis. If you remember my first article, I talked a little about my ...
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Bring your operation on-line and into the future with Wasson-ECE & Eclipse E-VUV
Jul-2020
Accurate, easy, and fast solutions are key for any operation to be successful. This is no more apparent than in the hydrocarbon processing (HPI) and chemical ...
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Introducing the new ASPYRE DT – now up to 2100 Amps
Jul-2020
Take your heat control system to the next level with the latest Watlow power and temperature controllers. We’re proud to introduce our new ASPYRE DT ...
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Managing a control system migration
Jul-2020
Overcoming the inherent risks of a control system upgrade relies heavily on collaborating and sharing information transparently with a systematic, integrated ...
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Cross-unit APC boosts downstream performance
Jul-2020
Manipulating advanced process control in a crude unit reduced constraints in a downstream diesel hydrotreater
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Evolution of a digital twin Part 2: Use of the digital twin
Jul-2020
A two-part article provides a step-by-step introduction to the concept, construction and application of a digital twin for the lifecycle of an ethylene ...
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Model predictive control in a lube oil complex
Jul-2020
An application of model predictive control targeted optimum performance from a refinery’s propane deasphalting unit.
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Downtime damages environmental performance too
Jul-2020
Advanced technologies can reduce the environmental impact of unexpected shutdowns.
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Jun-2020
Petcoke gasification. The chemistry of gasification fits somewhere between combustion and pyrolysis. Combustion is a high temperature reaction in an excess ...
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Heat storage in solar power plants
Jun-2020
Avoiding freezing and leakage: optimal thermal management for the use of molten salt in solar thermal power plants with concentrated radiation
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Improving level control under extreme conditions such as in FCC units
Jun-2020
Catalytic cracking is one of the most important conversion process used in petroleum refineries. It is a widely used process in the refineries for converting ...
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How to replace sensors on process heaters
Jun-2020
Process heaters, such as immersion heaters, use a range of sensor options to accurately measure and adjust the heat of a manufacturing process.
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Gas analysis in petrochemical production
Jun-2020
Accurate gas analysis is critical in the production of PTA. Purified terephthalic acid (PTA) is, together with ethylene glycol, a key component in the ...
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Fast and precise elemental screening in petroleum coke and coal
May-2020
Petroleum Coke (also referred to as petcoke), a byproduct of the oil refining process, is typically sold and used as either fuel or material for anodes ...
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Enable cost savings and optimise production with real-time sulphur results
Aug-2020
(White Paper) - The demand for biofuels has increased in recent years, with the EU requiring that 10% of the total transport fuel in its member countries ...
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Troubleshooting premature tower flooding
Aug-2020
(White Paper) - Thorough analysis of field data and tray hydraulics together with gamma scanning were key factors in the successful troubleshooting of ...
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Molecular management for refinery-petrochemical complexes
Aug-2020
(White Paper) - Designing a digital twin for process simulation of an integrated complex enables enhanced molecular management to deliver higher margin.The ...
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Aug-2020
(White Paper) - How MOL used a new approach to data to improve plant diagnostics, adopt alternate crudes and save millions.
The petroleum ...
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