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...
At the 2018 Emerson Exchange conference, Emerson's Bob Sabin and Scott Pettigrew presented, Combustion Control Optimized with Patented Control Configuration. Bob opened describing the Emerson Industrial Energy Consulting group and how they work with manufacturers and...
Steam is a critical part of many process manufacturing processes and the energy to produce it can be a significant source of operational costs. I recently caught up with process automation hall-of-fame member Greg McMillan and Emerson's Scott Pettigrew at the Emerson...
Steam boilers are used in sugar mills to generate electricity and for heat in various stages of production, such as crystallization process. This process converts the sugar syrup into sugar crystals. Optimizing the performance of the boilers improves energy efficiency...
Emerson's Bob Sabin, Tim Badger and Scott Pettigrew teamed up on the presentation, Fix Tough Measurement Problems to Improve Boiler Operation. Their abstract: While boilers are crucial to plant/mill business results, many times their performance is lacking. Poor...
I'm in meetings with our global consultants this week, many whom I feature regularly on this blog. I was sitting next to Scott Pettigrew whom you may recall from earlier boiler optimization-related posts. Scott shared a story with me where he worked with a chemical...
Emerson's Joel Lemke, Bob Sabin, and Scott Pettigrew presented Instrumentation and End Devices Needed for Improved Boiler Operation at the 2012 Emerson Exchange. Their abstract:While boilers are critical to plant/mill operation and business results, their performance...
While at Emerson Exchange Düsseldorf a few weeks ago, I "live blogged" many of the presentations, including Power and Utility Saves Fuel and Reduces Energy. I asked Emerson's Scott Pettigrew, a Sr. Energy Consultant on the Industrial Energy industry team if he had any...
Emerson's Sam Thiara and Scott Pettigrew presented a case study on a steel producer looking to drive energy efficiency solutions to minimize costs and emissions. The objectives of the first project was to reduce CO2 emissions and dust in the facility and reduce...
I saw a tweet from Control magazine editor-in-chief Walt Boyes, which alerted me to a presentation that I needed to get my hands on. Emerson's Bob Sabin, a member of the industrial energy team, was kind enough to provide me a copy. You may recall Bob from several...
Let's close the week with a short post about energy saving opportunities. The pain of higher energy costs is fresh on my mind with an unexpected trip by car from Austin to Houston and back with gasoline prices now just shy of $4/gallon USD. Back in May, I wrote about...
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