A North American refinery was facing challenges with their crude unit charge heater due to clogging and freezing of its impulse lines. In settings like this, it’s crucial to have dependable and redundant measurement to guard against damage to the heaters and keep...
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DP Measurement Technologies for Challenging Refinery Applications
The energy derived from crude oil has powered the advancement of civilizations across the globe. Getting this energy into usable forms such as gasoline, diesel and jet fuel is the work refineries must do safely, reliably and efficiently every day. In a Hydrocarbon...
Effective Corrosion Mitigation for Refineries
Crude oil from shale producing regions, also known as tight oils, are opportunity crudes for refineries. These differ from the traditional sources of crude oil from large reservoirs in their widely varying properties. These properties include specific gravity, sulfur...
Crude Oil Property Variability Requires Real-time Analysis
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...
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...
Optimizing Blend Operations in Pursuit of Regulatory Compliance
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...
Ways for Refineries to Comply with EPA Tier 3 Regulations
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...
Optimizing Refinery Blending Operations
Optimized process control begins with accurate and reliable measurements. A Process Engineering article, For good measure (pp 39-40) highlights new measurement technologies which can be used in critical plant processes. The applications described range from...
Meeting Lower Sulfur Tier 3 Regulations for U.S. Refiners
Earlier this year the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized their Tier 3 vehicle emission and fuel standards rules with the stated purpose to reduce air pollution from passenger cars and trucks. For refiners, part of these rules include the content of...
Solving Refinery Coating Challenges in Flow Meters
Collaborative problem solving occurs in all kinds of ways—face-to-face, over the phone, via email, and online in blogs, on-line communities, wikis, and social networks. I mention this because I saw some great guidance on flow meter coating challenges in refining...
A Primer on Refinery Operations
If you're not in the oil refining business the names of the process units, such as cat crackers, can sound quite exotic. Emerson's Tim Olsen, a consultant on the refining industry team, wrote a great AIChE Chemical Engineering Progress article, An Oil Refinery...
Custody Transfer Risk Assessment
It is one thing to transfer ownership between seller and buyer when the item sold comes in discrete units. It's another when it is a free-flowing fluid through pipes. In the process industries, this ownership transfer is known as custody transfer. Wikipedia defines...
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