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...
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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...
Adding Missing Measurements in Refineries
We're now about six weeks away from the September 30-Oct 4 Emerson Exchange conference in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas area. In fact, today, August 15, 2013 is the deadline for Early Bird registration—so if you were considering joining us, you'll want to act today for...
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...
Terminal and Refinery Tank Gauging Systems
I wanted to share two videos from Emerson's Rosemount Tank Gauging team. Both feature Emerson's Ulf Johannesson. In the first, short 1:36 video, StocExpo 2013 - Tank Gauging Solutions, from the recent StocExpo 2013 conference, Ulf describes elements of the Raptor Tank...
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...
Steps to Effective PID Loop Tuning
Sometimes when you read an article about tuning proportional-integral-derivative (PID) loops, you're treated to all the 2nd order differential equations they contain. These can be intimidating, especially if your college calculus classes are many years in the rearview...
Improving Refinery Operations through Technology
For producers of commodity products, profitability primarily comes from operational excellence—that is optimizing costs to run the process as efficiently as possible. In the U.K-based PTQ article, Refinery operations gain from advances in digital automation, Emerson's...
On a Path to Four Zeros Operational Goals
The Industry Forums, scheduled for Monday, October 8, 1:00-2:30pm are always an informative part of the Emerson Exchange technical conference. You can find the industry forum lineup for next week's conference here. Emerson's Peter Cox is leading Industrial and...
American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers Q and A and Technology Forum
The American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (formerly NPRA) are holding a Q&A and Technology Forum October 1-3, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Emerson's Tim Olsen, whom you may recall from earlier refinery-related posts, shared with me that several Emerson folks...
Start with the Pipe Racks and Branches for Your Wireless Communications Infrastructure
In refineries and petrochemical plants, pipe racks are the "backbones" of the process units. It is also the place Emerson's Gary Hawkins, a senior refining consultant, recommends should be completely covered with an IEC 62591 wireless device communications...
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