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Digital Feature: Enhancing ethylene cracker radiant tube integrity through innovative robotic inspection

Radiant tube failure ranks as a primary cause of unplanned shutdowns in ethylene cracking furnaces. This article examines tube failures via carburization, along with a proprietary technology that provides comprehensive multi-aspect inspection data to mitigate ethylene radiant tube failures.

Design considerations and decarbonization options for fired heaters

S & B Engineers and Constructors Ltd.: Malhotra, K.

As greenhouse gas emissions policies and regulations become more stringent, carbon dioxide emissions have taken center stage, with many nations targeting net-zero carbon emissions.

Simplify oil and gas predictive modeling

MarqMetrix: Marquardt, B

Chemometrics, the application of statistics to the field of chemical analysis, is often used in the oil and gas industry to make product quality predictions.

Technologies helping the petrochemicals/organic chemicals sectors adhere to new flaring regulations

Thermo Fisher Scientific: Thermo Fisher Scientific

Industrial plants, chemical companies, refineries, the coal industry and landfills practice gas flaring as a safety measure to relieve pressure or dispose of excess gases. 

Innovations

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Rhodes, Mike

The automation experts at ATC Diversified Electronics, maker of devices for automation, motor protection, process monitoring and power quality, have introduced the new MPA2 motor protection analyzer.

Understanding and applying radiometric level and density profiling

Endress+Hauser: Thomas, M.  |  Droughton, K.

There are several reasons to quantify and qualify the material properties of liquids in vessels and pipes.

Reliable naphtha reforming catalyst testing

Avantium: Vilela, T.  |  Otyuskaya, D.

Naphtha-to-gasoline refining plays a significant role in the petrochemical refining industry.

Advancing the feature sets of field instruments to improve connectivity, diagnostics and user-friendliness

Emerson: Wiens, M.

Anyone observing process industries these days recognizes that they are very competitive.

Boil-off gas APC exceeds expectations

Greenfern Dynamics: Taylor, A.  |  Pierterse, F.
ConocoPhillips Australia: Wilson, T.  |  Davis, R.

The use of advanced process control (APC) technology on LNG liquefaction trains is well accepted with some of the earliest implementations developed in the late 1990s.

Emerson wins contract to automate $8.5-B Golden Triangle Polymers facility

Emerson will provide automation technologies, software and analytics from its Plantweb™ digital ecosystem for the Golden Triangle Polymers Project, a world-scale integrated polymers facility on the Texas Gulf Coast.