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Equipment

A scalable mechanical integrity program to accelerate the energy transition—Mobile, visual and dynamic

GE Digital: Nair, V.  |  Vijayaraghavan, R.

As asset integrity and reliability managers, risk-based inspection (RBI) and corrosion analysts, and inspectors and contract inspection firms across asset-intensive industries look to optimize their mechanical integrity programs, there is a paradigm shift to implement a comprehensive, scalable and sustainable fixed-equipment reliability program to meet increasing reliability demands.

Efficient facilities embrace control system predictive maintenance

Emerson: Golder, N.

Hydrocarbon facilities are operating differently and managing more pressures than they did just 5 yr–10 yr ago.

Contextualize. Analyze. Optimize. Operationalize.

Seeq Corporation: Buenemann, A.

Uncertainty in global hydrocarbon markets has led to the tightening of belts on capital expenditures while new capacity comes online, driving prices lower and pinching profit margins.

How digitalization is turning data into value in the heart of the refinery: FCC catalysts

BASF: Gim, S.  |  Chen, A.

Digitalization has impacted the world of refining for the past several decades.

Editorial Comment: Adopting digital technologies is not new to the HPI

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

Incorporating digital technologies into refining and petrochemical operations is not new to the hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI).

Business Trends: Tier 3 gasoline production: Challenges and opportunities for refiners

Petrobras: Da Silva, M. W.
Hoekstra Trading: Hoekstra, G.
Valuation Risk & Strategy LLC: Murphy, T.

One of the biggest challenges to the crude oil refining industry over the past decades is the development of technologies capable of reducing the environmental impact of crude oil derivatives, while also raising their performance.

Decarbonization is at the forefront of environmental innovation

Koch Modular Process Systems: Schafer, T.  |  Villegas, M.

Earth’s carbon dioxide levels have increased appreciably within the last several decades, which directly correlates to rising environmental concerns of GHG emissions, pollution and disruptions of marine and terrestrial environments, among others.

Innovations

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Rhodes, Mike

Total organic carbon is an important quality parameter in the various manufacturing and process environments that depend on ultrapure water.

New state-of-the-art in sulfur recovery?—Part 2: Environmental benefits

Worley Comprimo: Ventham, C.  |  Lewis, J.
Topsoe Inc.: Jensen, F. E.

It is widely accepted that state-of-the-art sulfur recovery technologies utilize the modified Claus process as well as some extension technology on the tail gas.

Fast ion chromatography analysis for determining biofuel sugars

Thermo Fisher Scientific: Shevlin, C.

All industrial processes require reliable, accurate and timely methods for analyzing process chemistry.