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HP Integration Strategies: Wireless sensing benefits from new technology

Hydrocarbon Processing / March 2013
ARC Advisory Group: Forbes, H.
Environment & Safety / Maintenance & Reliability / Process Control / Process Optimization / Americas / Analyzers / Asia/Pacific / Engineering & Design / Europe / Information Systems / Loss Prevention / Management / Middle East / Safety

Wireless sensing is the most important new technology to emerge in decades for process measurement and equipment monitoring applications. For this reason alone, it has attracted the sustained attentio..

HP Innovations: Innovations

Hydrocarbon Processing / March 2013
Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Blume, Adrienne
Environment & Safety / Maintenance & Reliability / Refining / Acid Gas Removal / Analyzers / Carbon Management / Corrosion / Engineering & Design / Greenhouse Gases / Motors / Natural Gas / Piping / Pumps / Rotating Equipment / Safety

Coating system gets European patentHempel’s Ultra-High Solids and Speed (UHSS), a two-coat protective paint system certified for C5-M and C4 corrosive environments, has been granted a patent from..

HP Innovations: Innovations

Hydrocarbon Processing / February 2013
Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Blume, Adrienne
Gas Processing/LNG / Refining / Analyzers / Compressors / Distillation / Drivers / Gasification / Information Systems / Motors / Natural Gas / Pumps / Rotating Equipment / Safety / Turbines / Utilities / Valves

UK firm patents mid-scale LNG technologyGasconsult Ltd. has announced the award of a patent for its new ZR-LNG liquefaction process. ZR-LNG has best-in-class energy efficiency for mid-scale liquefied ..

Consider coal gasification for liquid fuels production

Hydrocarbon Processing / December 2012
Gas Processing/LNG / Process Optimization / Project Management / Refining / Acid Gas Removal / Americas / Analyzers / Asia/Pacific / Biofuels / Catalysts / Cetane / Compressors / Construction / Crude oil / Desulfurization / Diesel / Distillation / Economics / Engineering & Design / Environment / Equipment / Europe / Gas to liquids (GTL) / Gasification / Gasoline / Hydrocracking / Hydrotreating / Management / Middle East / Naphtha / Natural Gas / Octane / Reactors / Sulfur / Treating

Due to faster depleting natural gas reserves and more abundant coal reserves, coal gasification and CTL are solutions to produce liquid fuels over the long term.

HP Control: What’s new with FOUNDATION Fieldbus―Part 2

Hydrocarbon Processing / December 2012
Fieldbus Foundation: O’Brien, L.
Process Control / Process Optimization / Project Management / Americas / Analyzers / Asia/Pacific / Construction / Economics / Engineering & Design / Environment / Equipment / Europe / Information Systems / Management / Middle East / Safety / Valves

Remote operations management (ROM)—management of automation assets and resources that are geographically dispersed—is one of the fastest growing segments of the process automation business (..

Improve integration opportunities for aromatics units—Part 1

Hydrocarbon Processing / November 2012
Fluor Enterprises, Inc.: Vaidyanathan, S.  |  Zhou, J.
Apex PetroConsultants: Kapur, S.
Petrochemicals / Process Optimization / Project Management / Refining / Americas / Analyzers / Aromatics / Asia/Pacific / Construction / Crude oil / Economics / Engineering & Design / Equipment / Ethers / Europe / Hydrogen / Management / Middle East / Naphtha

An aromatics complex is a combination of processing units that can be used to convert petroleum naphtha and pyrolysis gasoline (pygas) into the basic petrochemical intermediates: benzene, toluene and ..

HP Control: What’s new with Foundation fieldbus—Part 1

Hydrocarbon Processing / November 2012
ARC Advisory Group: O'Brien, L.
Environment & Safety / Maintenance & Reliability / Process Control / Americas / Analyzers / Asia/Pacific / Engineering & Design / Europe / Information Systems / Loss Prevention / Management / Middle East / Safety

FOUNDATION fieldbus continues to increase its installed base in the hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI). The organization continues to develop the technology, making it easier to use, creating certi..

HP Innovations: Innovations

Hydrocarbon Processing / October 2012
Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Blume, Adrienne
Environment & Safety / Maintenance & Reliability / Process Control / Process Optimization / Refining / Analyzers / Biofuels / Equipment / Greenhouse Gases / Information Systems / Natural Gas / Safety / Utilities

Invensys introduces new technology offeringsSoftware and technology provider Invensys Operations Management recently released a program to help clients modernize and improve the performance of aging c..

HP Innovations: Innovations

Hydrocarbon Processing / August 2012
Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Blume, Adrienne
Environment & Safety / Gas Processing/LNG / Petrochemicals / Refining / Analyzers / Catalysts / Gasification / Heat Transfer / Information Systems / Natural Gas / Safety / Utilities / Valves

PCHEs boost power from waste heatHeatric recently supplied Echogen Power Systems Inc. with Printed Circuit Heat Exchangers (PCHEs) for Echogen’s Supercritical CO2 (ScCO2) power generation cycle. ..

Process control in the HPI: A not-so-sentimental journey

Hydrocarbon Processing / July 2012
ARC Advisory Group: Hill, D.  |  Woll, D.  |  Miller, Paul
Gas Processing/LNG / Petrochemicals / Process Control / Process Optimization / Refining / Americas / Analyzers / Asia/Pacific / Construction / Engineering & Design / Equipment / Europe / Information Systems / Middle East

As long as there have been hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI) facilities to process crude oil and intermediates, there have been instruments in place to assist plant operators in measuring, recordi..