NOx is probably the most ubiquitous combustion-created air pollutant since it can be generated by any process burning any fossil fuel, and it is tightly regulated by the U.S. EPA and other regulatory bodies around the world. Plants with relevant combustion processes,...
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Technology Modernization for Refinery Digital Transformation
In a Refiner’s Guide to Digital Transformation and Top Quartile Performance article, Emerson’s Duncan Schleiss highlights the importance of technology modernization in driving top performance.
Improving Refining Operations with Rich Data and Analytics
Dennis Belanger opens the article, Unlock the rich data in your refinery to achieve Top Quartile performance, in the Refiner’s Guide to Digital Transformation and Top Quartile Performance with how big data helps drive increased productivity, lowered maintenance costs and energy usage, reduced downtime, and lower safety and environmental incidents.
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.
Driving Refinery Safety Performance Improvement
In an article from the Refiner’s Guide to Digital Transformation and Top Quartile Performance, Emerson’s Tim Olsen shares ways for refiners to embrace new strategies and technologies that reduce their personnel’s exposure to hazardous environments and materials—and integrate more accurate, reliable, and regulatory-compliant process equipment to enhance personnel and site safety.
Digital Transformation Actionable Roadmap
In an article from the Refiner’s Guide to Digital Transformation and Top Quartile Performance, Emerson’s Marcelo Carugo shares avenues for starting the digital transformation process.
Refinery Flare Regulatory Compliance
At the 2020 4C Health, Safety & Environment conference, Emerson's Jamie Marsden presented, New Refinery Flare Regulations 40 CFR Part 63. The rule, 40 CFR 63 Subparts CC and UUU, affects any refinery with a flare used as a control device for an emission point, and...
Driving Safer and More Secure Refining and Chemical Operations
According to the United States Energy Information Administration, the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast refiners and petrochemical producers accounted for 50.5% of the U.S. total finished petroleum products as of October 2019. So with over half of America's refining and...
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...
Assuring Single-Phase Vapor Sample for Gas Chromatograph
Gas chromatographs analyze the composition of hydrocarbon mixtures in process and natural gas applications. For online natural gas chromatography, the samples must be reliably conditioned to produce a single-phase vapor. In this 5:42 YouTube video, How to Select a...
Refinery Digital Transformation Case Study
Advancing technology has enabled productivity gains in both capital projects and ongoing operations for manufacturers and producers. Ergon Refining's Steve Elwart and Emerson's Marcelo Carugo collaborated on a case study presentation on digital transformation at the...
AFPM Summit Crude/Vacuum Distillation and Coking Q&A
One of the key parts of the AFPM Operations & Process Technology Summit is the Q&A Panel sessions. I attended the Crude/Vacuum Distillation & Coking Q&A session with a panel of experienced refiner professionals. The first question was about meeting H2S...
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