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How pipeline management becomes part of a plant safety strategy

HIMA Americas, Inc.: Liston, C.

A typical refinery or chemical plant contains miles of pipelines.

Innovations

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Andrew, Bob

Hawk Measurement Systems has announced a new OptioLaser S300 that can be used for the detection of all types of liquids, regardless of their dielectric properties.

Dynamic simulation of integrated syngas, O2 and steam networks for a gasification complex—Part 2

Reliance Technology Group, Reliance Industries Ltd.: Dadhich, V.  |  Karvekar, N.  |  Mathew, T.
Honeywell Automation India Ltd.: Bhattad, G.  |  Saxena, M.  |  Kodolikar, P.

Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) operates the world’s largest refinery complex, with a combined crude processing capacity of 1.24 MMbpd that is split between two refineries: a Domestic Tariff Area (DTA) refinery and a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) refinery in Jamnagar, India.

How the “LLF” condition monitoring technique can improve manufactured product profitability

Bahrain Petroleum Co. (Bapco): Das, S.

Technological advances have allowed predictive maintenance (i.e., condition-based maintenance) to overtake preventive maintenance in plant operations. “Look, listen and feel (LLF)” is a condition monitoring technique that improves the reliability of equipment and machinery in manifolds.

Use your data to its full potential to prevent outages

HIMA Americas, Inc.: Creef, B.

In a process plant, the safety system is responsible for the protection of personnel, resources and the environment, by taking the plant to a safe state in the event of a fault. However, is the system capable of contributing more to the plant’s uptime and profitability?

Innovations

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Andrew, Bob

In the demanding environment of a Claus reaction furnace, flame detection sensors must distinguish whether a flame is still burning against a hot refractory lining background.

Innovations

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Andrew, Bob

ABB has introduced a new MID/OIML R117 certified high-accuracy CoriolisMaster Coriolis mass flowmeter for custody transfer applications in the oil and gas industry (FIG. 1).

Optimizing ethylene production with laser technology

Emerson Automation Solutions: Gogates, A.  |  Gunnell, J.

Ethylene is one of the most valuable organic compound building blocks in the world.

Identify the cause of liquid maldistribution inside packed beds

Tracerco: Pless, L.

Diagnosing liquid maldistribution problems inside packed beds that can cause mass transfer efficiency loss is a challenge to process engineers.

Carburization inspection robots for radiant tubes inside ethylene cracking furnaces

Rayong Engineering & Plant Service Co. Ltd.: Tiyawongsakul, T.

In an olefins plant, the reliability of ethylene cracking furnaces is one of the deciding factors used to indicate whether or not the plant can be operated at its design productivity.