"According to Solomon Associates, a world-class performer is a company whose maintenance costs are below 1.4 percent plant replacement value, with mechanical availability greater than 96.7 percent." Are your maintenance costs below this 1.4% threshold and 96.7%...
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Sleuthing and Solving Refinery Piping Noise
Fluids flowing through pipes can generate enough vibration to make the pipes sing. I saw in an Emerson Exchange 365 community post, a great Valve Magazine article, Vibration Analysis Pinpoints Valve Noise Source, by Emerson's Daniel Eilers. Daniel is a research...
Refinery Desalter Guided Wave Radar Level Measurement
Hydrocarbon Engineering magazine published an article by Emerson's Sarah Parker, Using Guided Wave Radar for desalter interface measurements will improve efficiency, increase reliability and reduce maintenance. The article is not available online to non-subscribers,...
Quick Hit Path to Plant Optimization
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...
Staying on Schedule through Diagnostic Detection
Emerson's David Sheppard, a certified functional safety expert, passed along a great story of a recent refinery incinerator startup. Over the course of a week, the incinerator was taken down so that the emergency shutdown system (ESD) and process control-related...
Start with API RP 556 for Flame Detection Guidance
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...
Assessing, Implementing, and Sustaining Reductions in Energy Usage
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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