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Developing and utilizing a novel, toughened epoxy adhesive

Belzona Polymerics Ltd.: Wade, I.

When identifying solutions that can offer assurance and longevity, the maintenance and reliability of asset repairs can be challenging.

History of the HPI: The 1980s: Oil spike/collapse, liquid crystals, conducting polymers and the rise of AR/VR

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

Several major impactful events took place in the global oil and gas and petrochemical industries in the 1980s.

Enabling a circular economy delivery model through truckable modularization

Koch Modular Process Systems: Villegas, M.

As resources become scarcer, and as costs continue to rise, companies are looking for new methods to reduce their material feedstock costs and remain competitive.

HRSG water/steam sampling: Do it right or face potential consequences

ChemTreat, Inc.: Buecker, B.
Sentry Equipment Corp.: Powalisz, J.

Many large industrial facilities—including refineries, and chemical and petrochemical plants—are increasingly turning to co-generation for process steam and power production.

Valves, Pumps and Turbomachinery: Achieving the right installation torque with a virtual calculation

Rembe: Wegener, C.

Determining the required installation torque for a tight flange system is a daily challenge for industrial valve manufacturers and plant operators.

Optimization: Integrity operating windows management

Contributing Editor: Anwer, A.

Operations in the oil and gas, petrochemical and refining industries pose a higher risk when failures occur in identifying ongoing damage mechanisms within static equipment.

Reliability: When to consider liquid-ring compressors

Process Machinery Consulting: Bloch, H. P.

Liquid-ring compressors (FIG. 1) use the centrifugal whirling of a sealing liquid to create a series of piston-like water columns to trap gas or vapor between the impeller cells of a rotor installed eccentric to its casing.

Business Trends: Non-OEM parts—Buyer beware

Emerson: Boyle, B.

What is the harm in wearing a knock-off Rolex watch?

Honeywell enhances immersive field simulator to meet broader spectrum of training and development requirements

Honeywell announced a new version of its Immersive Field Simulator (IFS) offering, a virtual reality (VR) and mixed-reality-based training tool that incorporates a digital twin of physical plant operations to provide targeted, on-demand, skill-based training for workers.

GE Digital achieves AWS energy competency status

GE Digital, the leading software innovator enabling the power generation and energy industries announced that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Energy Competency status.