Information Systems
Latest version now available of ABB’s System 800xA
System 800xA serves as the foundation for a number of unique industry-specific automation applications. Designed from the beginning to act as an integration platform, it has been proven to promote collaboration, improve operator effectiveness, achieve seamless control solutions, and provide flexible evolution paths through integrating diverse, usually separate plant systems, applications, information or fieldbus and controller platforms.
SourceGas implements trading and risk management solution
Allegro Development announced that SourceGas has completed the successful deployment of the Allegro 8 platform across its natural gas operations. Allegro provides SourceGas the ability to capture physical and financial natural gas trades, manage transportation, actualization and invoicing on a single, integrated solution
CPFD Software set to distribute Barracuda in China
CPFD Software LLC, the creators of the Barracuda simulation package for particle-fluid systems, announced the signing of a distribution agreement with Hi-Key Technology to distribute and support Barracuda in China.
Boosting temperature inferential control performance in distillation columns
An effective compensation method improves performance
HP Control: Continuous improvement or core-competency?
In the past decade or two, the concepts of key performance indicators (KPIs), continuous improvement, core-competency and best practices have received a lot of attention. What are the relationships be..
Improving data reconciliation and yield accounting
Here's how the Mathura Refinery's data reconciliation and yield accounting project was implemented
Practical process control system metrics
Here are several useful examples
Agile supply chain planning
Providing a common workspace improves data integration
Service-oriented architecture simplifies data source integration
Here's how the approach helps refinery scheduling and also contributes to business-wide SOA adoption
Predicting octane numbers for gasoline blends using artificial neural networks
The ANN models were more accurate than regression models
- ExxonMobil plans 1 Blbs/yr of advanced recycling by 2027 11/22
- Gauging the likely Trump effect on U.S. energy and power sectors 11/22
- Russia's Lukoil restoring cracker at NORSI refinery, gasoline output rising 11/22
- Nigeria's local currency crude sales fall short of target, Dangote refinery says 11/22
- U.S. October gasoline imports hit post-pandemic low on slump in European shipments 11/22
- Clean Hydrogen Works awards McDermott FEED contract for Ascension Clean Energy (ACE) project 11/21