As U.S. refiners grapple with the Environmental Protection Agency's Tier 3 regulations, meeting their blending plans will become even more difficult. In the second webinar of the refining blending series, Emerson's Dr. Doug White addressed the subject of using...
Process manufacturers and producers are faced with a myriad of regulations at the federal, state and local levels. Here in the U.S., refiners are challenged with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s "Tier 3" regulations, which rule that: …federal gasoline will...
I continue to mine all the great presentations from the Emerson Exchange event in Anaheim last fall. Here is a recap of another one, How Much Is Another Measurement Worth?, by Emerson's Doug White. You may recall Doug from many earlier posts on project justification...
The American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (formerly NPRA) are holding a Q&A and Technology Forum October 1-3, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Emerson's Tim Olsen, whom you may recall from earlier refinery-related posts, shared with me that several Emerson folks...
"According to Solomon Associates, a world-class performer is a company whose maintenance costs are below 1.4 percent plant replacement value, with mechanical availability greater than 96.7 percent." Are your maintenance costs below this 1.4% threshold and 96.7%...
Presentations were given by Laszlo Toth with the MOL Group in Hungary and Ali Hussein Abdullah Al-Awadhi for Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC). Emerson's Doug White whom we featured several times of this blog joined the panel to share his expertise in advanced...
While we focus heavily on technical process automation-related subjects here on the blog, financial-related ones are critically important. I mention this because Emerson's Doug White will be presenting Making Operations Predictable Through Automation: The True Cost,...
I plucked this story from a growing and vibrant, "inside the Emerson firewall" community. This community connects Emerson global sales, project, and application folks together, primarily to ask about references--"has this has been integrated with that" sort of...
OK, I confess to being an engineer in my core when I was explaining to my son the other day how the heart is a reciprocating pump. The systolic and diastolic pressures are the high and low-pressure peaks based on the heart's expansion/contraction cycle. Blood pressure...
A recent Wall Street Journal article, U.S. Expects Steady Climb in Energy Prices opens: Energy prices are undergoing a long, slow march higher as major economies shake off the effects of last year's recession, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said Tuesday in...
I managed to get my hands on a great paper, Olefin Plant Energy Savings through Enhanced Automation, written by Emerson's Dr. Douglas C. White, whom you may recall from earlier posts. Doug is a principal consultant who leads the Process Improvement and Optimization...
I heard a few weeks back that Emerson's Dr. Doug White, was going to be honored by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). I was sworn to secrecy, which is not an easy thing for someone with an itchy finger on the "publish" button. Since the press...
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