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...
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Improving Refinery Fuel Blending Operations
For a refinery, the efficiency and reliability of the fuel blending operations largely determines its overall financial performance. These fuels, including gasoline, diesel, fuel oils, jet fuel, and kerosene require the right blend of fuel components and additives...
Best Practices for Solving Crude and Fuel Blending Challenges Webinar
It used to be that refineries had a fairly constant and predictable supply of crude with similar properties coming in. Blending on the front end with the crudes and on the back end with the fuels produced were optimized for the crude oil properties. As new supplies...
Gaining Experience in the Refining and Petrochemical Industries
The work is ongoing along the Texas & Louisiana gulf coast to come back from the massive flooding from Hurricane Harvey. A MarketWatch article notes that more that 20% of the total U.S. refining capacity was shut down and only slowly now coming back online. And an...
2017 AIChE Board of Directors Election
Professional societies are very important in advancing knowledge, standards, peer networks and more. Within our world of manufacturing and automation there are several including the International Society of Automation (ISA) and the Measurement, Control &...
Optimized and Flexible Refinery Blending for Current Market Conditions
Refinery blending operations are the "cash registers" since it "…is the last chance to optimize the final saleable product, as well as the final opportunity to achieve as close to product specifications as possible." A recent RBN Energy blog post, The Price You Pay...
Improving Refinery Corrosion Monitoring
With the diversification of crude oil types brought about by U.S. shale production, refineries have increased risk for vessel and piping corrosion. Many of the aging refineries also are operating past the design life of some of their plant assets. In a Chemical...
Gaining Insights in Addressing Corrosion and Flaring Challenges
The American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) Annual Meeting is rapidly approaching—March 19-21 in San Antonio Texas. It is: …the world's premier refining meeting, assembling key executives, decision-makers, and technical experts from refining businesses,...
Maximize Opportunity Crude Blend Percentages
A recent Hydrocarbon Processing article highlighted the changing financial picture for refiners over the past 24 months: Those margins collapsed this year in a global fuel supply glut, providing an incentive for refiners to undertake the shutdowns necessary for...
Improved Refinery Performance via Direct to Ship Blending
For refineries, blending operations can be challenging due to unscheduled downtime, off-spec production requiring reblending operations and quality giveaways by exceeding specifications. I caught up with Emerson’s Marcelo Carugo who noted that poor recipe management...
Flexible and Optimized Refining and Petrochemical Operations
Petrochemical producers and refiners are having to adjust to big changes over the last couple of years. With the large supply of natural gas and natural gas liquids (NGLs) from shale combined with the opening of U.S. oil exports and new LNG exports, prices and supply...
Petrochemical and Refining Sessions at the Emerson Exchange Conference
The list of workshops, short course, plenary sessions, exhibits and more at the October 24-28 Emerson Exchange conference can be overwhelming. If you've already registered, the MyExchange tool can help you find, plan and schedule the sessions you'd like to attend. If...
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