At the ACHEMA 2024 conference, Emerson’s Michael Machuca delivered a compelling presentation on Measurement Strategies to Achieve Your Sustainability and Decarbonization Goals.
Measurement Strategies for Optimizing Fired Heaters
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Improving Fired Heater Efficiency and Performance
Martin McDonough shares ways that chemical manufacturers can reduce emissions, increase safety performance, and lower energy costs by using automation to improve fired heater efficiency.
Digital Solutions for Driving More Sustainable Production
At the EHS (Environmental, Health & Safety) Seminar, Emerson’s Michael Machuca presented Digital Solutions to Achieve Your Sustainability and Decarbonization Goals.
Improve Combustion and Efficiency with Mass-based Fuel Flow Measurement
Springtime here in the Northern hemisphere means lots of industry and professional organization events. This week I've highlighted happenings from the pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturing industry at Interphex 2019. Also going on this week is a gathering of...
When Tuning PID Alone is not the Answer
Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) control is the workhorse control algorithm for process manufacturers. When tuned properly, it seeks to move a loop's process variable (PV) to the setpoint (SP) as quickly as possible without overshoot or instability. But, in some...
Refinery and Chemical Plant Pressure Regulator Applications
Pressure regulators play an important role in process operations. Wikipedia describes their operation: A pressure regulator's primary function is to match the flow of gas through the regulator to the demand for gas placed upon the system. If the load flow decreases,...
Fired Heater Safety and Burner Management Systems
Back in March in a post, Safety System Considerations for Process Fired Heaters, I shared some thoughts from a presentation by Emerson's Nikki Bishop and David Sheppard. The good news is that their thoughts are now available in a PTQ article, Role of fired heater...
Detecting Fired Heater Flame Loss
The AIChE 2013 Spring Meeting and 9th Global Congress on Process Safety is taking place this week down the road from me in San Antonio, Texas. I just heard the news from Emerson's Tim Olsen, Chair of the AIChE Fuels & Petrochemicals Division, that a paper on...
Fired Heater Safety Standards and Burner Management
In an earlier post, Safety System Considerations for Process Fired Heaters, I highlighted an American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) paper by Emerson's Nikki Bishop and Dave Sheppard. In this post, I'll share the safety system design, selection and...
Safety System Considerations for Process Fired Heaters
The American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) will hold their 2013 annual meeting next week, just down the road from here in San Antonio Texas. This March 17-19 conference assembles key executives, decision-makers, and technical experts from refining...
Energy Demand-Based Boiler and Fired Heater Control
Energy, often the largest controllable cost for process manufacturers, needs to be carefully managed for efficient operations. In a Control Engineering magazine article, Optimize multi-fuel boiler operation with modern control, Emerson's Bob Sabin highlighted the...
Fired Up About Fired Heater-Go Beyond Bridging the RP 556 Gap
Emerson's Pete Sharpe presented on the subject of fired heaters. His abstract [hyperlink added]:The newly revised API's RP 556, is a collection of best practices for fired heater instrumentation, control and protective systems. Emerson can go beyond performing a gap...
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