In a Hydrocarbon Processing article, Leveraging modern flow technologies to improve safety in refineries, Emerson’s Meha Jha and Julie Valentine describe how advancements in these flow measurements, “…enhance safety and improve uptime, flexibility and efficiency, while securing their competitive position in a dynamic market.”
Julie Valentine
This Week at the 2020 AFPM Summit
The 2020 American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) Summit starts today as a virtual conference with Emerson’s Meha Jha, Tim Olsen, Julie Valentine, Doug White & Pete Sharpe share ways to improve operational performance.
Coriolis Flow Meters for High Accuracy Refining Applications
In a Processing article, Controlling critical refining applications with Coriolis meters, Emerson’s Julie Valentine and Meha Jha share specific applications where Coriolis flow measurement provides opportunities for better control and more reliable operations.
Production Accounting and Mass Balance Performance Management
Reliable, accurate flow measurements are at the heart of excellence in production accounting and mass balances for chemical and hydrocarbon processing facilities. Key performance indicators (KPIs) are only as good as the data that feeds them. Next Tuesday, February 18...
Optimizing Opportunity Crude Usage while Minimizing Operational Risks
For refiners, opportunity crude is crude oil available on the spot market that are typically much lower cost than crude oil received under long-term contracts. In a Hydrocarbon Engineering article, Finding the Sweet Spot, Emerson's Meha Jha and Julie Valentine...
Improving Loss Control through Refinery Mass Balance
On behalf of a South American refining professional, Emerson's Julie Valentine presented a case study, Impact of Refinery Mass Balance and Loss Control on Operational Excellence, at the 2019 AFPM Operations & Process Technology Summit. Here's the abstract from...
Digital Transformation in Health-Safety-Environmental Applications
Health, Safety & Environmental (HSE) experts in the manufacturing and production industries gathered recently here in Austin for the 4C Health/Safety/Environmental Conference. At this year's conference, Emerson's Marcelo Carugo, Julie Valentine and Marcio...
Improving Opportunity Crude Blending Operations
Opportunity crudes provide refiners with lower feedstock costs, but they must be carefully characterized and blended with other crudes to avoid problems during the refining process. These opportunity crudes are typically discounted from typical crudes because of the...
Best Practices for Solving Crude and Fuel Blending Challenges Webinar
It used to be that refineries had a fairly constant and predictable supply of crude with similar properties coming in. Blending on the front end with the crudes and on the back end with the fuels produced were optimized for the crude oil properties. As new supplies...
Improving Measurement and Final Control in Refinery Blending
As global refiners strive to meet ever-tightening regulations, the performance of measurement and final control devices can have a big impact in meeting this challenge. The third Refinery Blending Series webinar recording, Improving measurement and control in blending...
Optimized Blending Through Better Flow Measurement
In an earlier blending applications post, I mentioned some of the advantages of online/inline blending over traditional, batch-based blending. It's a process which crosses many industries including refining, pulp and paper, chemicals/specialty chemicals and food and...
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