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Reliability: What to do when equipment reliability is on a downward slope

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

When a reliability professional located halfway around the world asked for guidance on how to reverse declining equipment reliability at his world-scale fertilizer plant, we answered.

Achieve refinery cost savings with real-time hydrogen monitoring

H2scan: Herman, G.

As stay-at-home orders and state mandates to shelter in place made waves around the globe in early 2020, nearly every industry was severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Editorial Comment: Optimizing operations by advancing process controls, instrumentation and automation technologies

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

When driving by or visiting a refinery or petrochemical plant, one cannot help but gaze at the expansive sea of metal towers.

Fired heaters in the process industries: Optimizing operations and minimizing emissions

Yokogawa Corp. of America: Finnan, K.  |  Meyer, E.

The process industries, which include chemicals, metals and mining, oil and gas, petrochemicals, pulp and paper, and refining, are very energy intensive

Improving process pumps requires technical and managerial action

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

For many years, manufacturers have emphasized low price over high reliability.

Business Trends: A sustainable futureā€”Unraveled

Sulzer GTC Technology: Gentry, J.

With the prominence in the oil and gas industry around sustainability, it is worthwhile to examine what it means to be “sustainable.”

Creating a roadmap for professional skills in Industry 4.0

University of Deusto: Akyazi, T.  |  Oyarbide, A.  |  Goti, A.  |  Gaviria, J.
Sidenor Aceros Especiales SLU: Bayon, F.

The oil and gas industry has overcome many challenges by keeping up with technology advances, achieving cost-effective practices and meeting energy efficiency requirements.

Extracting business value from digitalization in oil and gas

Petasense: Bradley, D.

Most oil and gas companies are investing in digitalization; however, they often fail to move beyond proof of value (PoV) or pilot projects.

Reboiler pinch: An approach to optimize flare system design during FEED

Saudi Aramco: Amin, H.
Siemens: Dhote, P.  |  Kanade, S.

A process plant’s pressure relief and flare systems are critical safety elements.

FTO: An enabling emission control technology for petrochemical plant expansions

Selas-Linde North America: Armstrong, P.  |  Predatsch, E.

For the petrochemical industry, the U.S. Gulf Coast (USGC) has the locational advantage of proximity to cheap feedstock, and to an abundance of pipeline infrastructure and terminals for export markets.