In an article from the Refiner’s Guide to Digital Transformation and Top Quartile Performance, Fuel blending: The key to unlocking your refinery’s cash register, Emerson’s Patrick Truesdale shares why changing the traditional way of holding inventory by adopting inline blending can eliminate expenses associated with building and maintaining tanks and save millions in working capital by no longer holding excessive inventory.
Regulatory bodies across the globe continue to impose stricter specifications for transportation fuels to reduce combustion byproducts. Emerson's Murali Krishnan and Patrick Truesdale shared a story with me of an Asian refiner who needed to modernize its blend and...
Sometimes a good discussion occurs among experts in a collaboration application within the Emerson firewall. Today's post is an example. Emerson's Jonas Berge was asking the global community of consultants and interested parties in refining about the manually operated...
Recently, we highlighted a recorded webinar on the use of online analyzers in refinery blending operations. The presenters, Emerson's Patrick Truesdale and Topnir Systems' Didier Lambert, also recently wrote a Processing Shale Feedstocks article, Three steps to...
For refineries, inline blending of gasoline, distillates, jet fuel and kerosene can improve overall performance by: …reducing the blend time, the need for excessive storage capacities and mix tanks, maintenance manpower and costly quality giveaway. In the final...
Emerson's Chris Womack highlights a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) project in Mexico in today's guest post. In liquid petroleum gas terminals featuring partial automation, several systems control the plant's filling racks, custody transfer areas, and safety systems....
Federal, state, and local regulations keep changing and impact process manufacturers' operations. Emerson's Patrick Truesdale provided an update on the US Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) at a past American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers conference (formerly...
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