Environment & Safety
HP Automation Safety: Getting failure rate data
During a course this month, I heard from several that the lack of failure rate data for instrumentation used in safety applications has been the major impediment keeping control enginee..
HP Automation Safety: Why CFSE certification?
IEC 61508, an international standard for functional safety, requires that any project manager establish criteria to assure competency of all individuals doing various safety life-cycle ..
HP Insight: Reality ‘bites’ for the energy industry
As this issue goes to press, HP will be releasing its 2003 industry forecast. So what should the HPI expect to happen over the next 15 months? Well, the news is cooling if not at times ..
Optimize FCC flue-gas emission control – Part 1
Upcoming environmental regulations will require tighter control measures for FCC units. So, what are the best options?
Consider new refinery compliance standards now being set through litigation actions
In addition to established environmental laws, the U.S. EPA uses enforcement settlements to devise more stringent performance for manufacturing facilities, especially refineries
HP Insight: Planning models for joint venture refineries function as a contract
In a joint venture (JV) refinery, the shareholders supply crudes of their choice and share the operating cost of processing those crudes into final products. In return, the shareholder..
HP Automation Safety: Are fire and gas systems SISs?
ISA 84.01 or IEC 61511 standards make no specific mention of "fire and gas (F&G)" systems. However, many are asking the question: Are F&G systems classified as safety systems? Why woul..
Hazard identification and management – an overview
Processing hydrocarbons is a risky business. Yet, HPI companies daily use systems that manage potentially hazardous chemicals with the utmost safety and produce high-value products
What is an SIF?
Edward M. Marsza, Contributing Editor One of the biggest problems in implementing safety instrumented systems (SISs) is poor definition of the safety instrumented function (SIF). More t..
Minimize flaring with flare gas recovery
To reduce facility-wide air emission, a refinery retrofitted the flare system and reuses waste gas as fuel gas
- Clariant, OMV aim to reduce carbon footprint of ethylene and ethylene oxide derivatives 7/31
- Ampol, Graincorp collaborate for potential renewable fuels plant in Australia 7/31
- 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
- Digital Exclusive: SPECIAL FOCUS: Digital Technologies—Utilize process simulation digital twin to optimize condensate yield
- Digital Exclusive-Flare system design: Liquid pockets in flare headers
- Hydrogen-rich content gasoline: A new concept for paraffinic gasoline reformulation
- Alarm rationalization at Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) refineries
