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Show Preview: IRPC Europe returns to Italy this June

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Andrew, Bob

Gulf Energy Information and Hydrocarbon Processing are pleased to provide a preview of IRPC Europe 2018, which will be held June 5–7 in Milan.

How pipeline management becomes part of a plant safety strategy

HIMA Americas, Inc.: Liston, C.

A typical refinery or chemical plant contains miles of pipelines.

CFD simulation in chemical reaction engineering

Siemens PLM Software: Aglave, R.  |  Eppinger, T.

Reaction engineering is a branch of chemical engineering that deals with the design and optimization of chemical reactors.

Digital: Operational excellence index—Part 2: The digital transformation

Petrotechnics: Lehmann, S.

Without a doubt, digitalization is the engine fueling the growing adoption of operational excellence (OE) in hazardous industries.

Viewpoint: Digitalization is key to increasing the process industry’s productivity

Neste Engineering Solutions: Tuomaala, P.

Consumers are continuously looking for healthier, safer and more environmentally sustainable products.

Automation Strategies: Top technology trends in automation for 2018

ARC Advisory Group: Resnick, C.

The last several years have seen significant advances in, and acceptance of, new automation technologies.

Dynamic simulation of integrated syngas, O2 and steam networks for a gasification complex—Part 2

Reliance Technology Group, Reliance Industries Ltd.: Dadhich, V.  |  Karvekar, N.  |  Mathew, T.
Honeywell Automation India Ltd.: Bhattad, G.  |  Saxena, M.  |  Kodolikar, P.

Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) operates the world’s largest refinery complex, with a combined crude processing capacity of 1.24 MMbpd that is split between two refineries: a Domestic Tariff Area (DTA) refinery and a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) refinery in Jamnagar, India.

Use your data to its full potential to prevent outages

HIMA Americas, Inc.: Creef, B.

In a process plant, the safety system is responsible for the protection of personnel, resources and the environment, by taking the plant to a safe state in the event of a fault. However, is the system capable of contributing more to the plant’s uptime and profitability?

Business Trends: The impact of industrial analytics on the chemical industry

Presenso: Vesely, E.

The opportunities for industrial analytics within the chemical industry, and how advances in machine learning can impact revenue, operations, employee safety and capital investments, are analyzed here.

Digital: Fulfilling the promise: The next phase of asset performance management

AspenTech: Hague, J.

As asset performance management (APM) continues to evolve, the introduction of new methods and cutting-edge technologies are rapidly increasing its bottom-line value. Cloud computing, data science and machine learning are among the technologies that are now being integrated with automated methodologies directly into APM solutions. As a result, operators and engineers now have advanced analytical capabilities at their fingertips.