Environment & Safety
Use safety transmitters to reduce costs and improve reliability
Here’s how transmitters designed for critical use can save thousands of dollars and still provide a high level of plant safety and fewer false trips
Loose change
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Understand dry gas seals
Use these guidelines for a successful installation
HP Insight: Petrochemical cycles – either you 'love it or hate it'
Commodity petrochemicals are a "love/ hate" business. When margins and profits are high, HPI operating companies are blissful and eagerly embark on spending sprees. They plan and build new capacity to..
HPIn SHE: The mysterious underworld
In Britain's north Yorkshire, there is a curious well in which the water regularly – and mysteriously – rises and falls. Not surprisingly, it is known as the Ebbing and Flowing Well. While n..
Improve liquid/gas coalescer performance
Using surface treatment for coalescer media, separator drainage capabilities can be significantly increased
HP Insight: A new era for the HPI
Will the new millennium push the HPI into a new era? For many years, we have discussed how the HPI would become a global industry. Interestingly enough, it has evolved into a globalized industry. So, ..
HPIn SHE: DIS-UNITED STATES
At the beginning of December, I flew over to England. I was running a week's course in reliability and maintainability as part of a MSc degree in process safety. On the way over, I had an interesting ..
HP Insight: Why build when you can outsource more economically?
December's Special Report focuses on the "lack luster" plant area – utilities. This processing area is too often treated as a "stepchild." However, if problems arise with the supply of utilities ..
HPIn SHE: Unit processes
Earlier, I was jotting down notes for this column while eating a greasy, undercooked breakfast, in an unheated, alcohol-free, departure lounge, waiting to board an aircraft, which had its last full se..
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