Environment & Safety
HP Automation Safety: Periodic functional testing – Is there a better way?
Process design engineers work hard to create inherently safe processes. To a great extent, this effort is successful and the general industry safety record continues to get better. Cons..
Strategic business elements of ISO 9001:2000
Along with providing quality management, certification may be a valuable marketing tool for enhancing customer confidence
Safety and environmental management compliance
A brief review of common certification programs that can enhance performance
Understand basic engineering codes
Here’s an overview of the nature, use and limitations of US industrial standards
HP Automation Safety: Using the safety life cycle
IEC 61511, Functional safety: Safety instrumented systems for the process industry sector, was recently released and is available on the IEC Website (www.iec.ch). This standard is well ..
Effectively guard a complex against a terrorist assault
Turn your facility assets from soft into hardened targets
Human factors analysis for process safety
Apply LOPA-HF to a fired furnace
HP Automation Safety: Beware of trip point negative creep
I recently rediscovered a curious phenomenon that affects SIS shutdown settings: trip points. This malady is particularly problematic for flow measurements in plants that have gone thro..
Noncapital intensive technologies reduce FCC sulfur content – Part 2
Using novel membrane technology, refiners have new solutions to treat gasoline for sulfur and olefins content
Inherently safer design
Implementation challenges faced by new and existing facilities
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- Brazil's JBS supplies animal waste for production of sustainable aviation fuel 7/31
- United is first airline to purchase SAF for O'Hare Int'l airport (Chicago, U.S.) 7/31
- Egypt aims to keep diesel prices subsidized 7/31
- illimity, Trafigura lend money to Italian refinery for energy transition 7/31
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- Hydrogen-rich content gasoline: A new concept for paraffinic gasoline reformulation
- Alarm rationalization at Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) refineries
