For U.S. refiners, the bulk of project spending is on core business drivers including safety, environmental performance, and reliability programs. Projects that optimize performance and improve energy efficiency often don't make the cut. At the AIChE National Spring...
In prior posts on safety and regulatory standards and burner management functional safety, I highlighted some of the developments in standards for burner management systems (BMS). The DeltaV SIS process safety system recently received additional TÜV functional safety...
A person searching on the subject of gas-fired heaters came upon one of the many posts here on this blog. He wanted to know: Is there any International standard or code compliance to measure or monitor the gases (like type of gas and range, etc.) in the gas fired...
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...
We discussed the energy efficiency and other opportunities with fired heaters in past posts. I caught wind of a presentation that Emerson's safety specialist, Chuck Miller will be giving at the upcoming March 21-25 AIChE Spring National Meeting and Global Congress on...
Some questions on flame detector reliability came my way the other day from a blog reader in the refining industry. I ran the questions by Emerson's Gary Hawkins, a refining industry consultant. Gary's first response was to point to the authoritative source for fired...
Emerson's Doug White sent me his presentations from the recent AIChE spring meeting. Doug is a principal consultant and vice president for advanced process control (APC) services, and has many years of experience justifying, designing, installing and commissioning APC...
A great question came in on the Operating Fired Heaters More Efficiently and Reliably blog post:Jim I work with natural draft heaters on a daily basis and have initiated several efficiency tests with improved burner internals. I am looking for an opportunity to...
In an earlier post about fired heater efficiency and reliability, I had spoken with Emerson operations consultant, Chris Forland, on the opportunities for refiners to optimize this energy intensive unit. Working with engineers in the Rosemount Analytical Gas division,...
From my days as a young systems engineer working on offshore oil & gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, I know that abnormal situations in our processes are something we all wish to avoid. A 1999 study by the ASM consortium estimated $10 billion USD in losses for U.S....
As I mentioned in an earlier post on fired heaters in refineries, this is an area where refiners can reduce energy costs by modernizing and optimizing the performance of these units. The objective is to operate the heater at the lowest fuel cost, while being able to...
You don't have to look too hard to find news stories (here, here, here) of rising oil prices and their impact on process manufacturers around the globe. Refineries and petrochemical manufacturing processes can especially require vast amounts of energy to process the...
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