Environment & Safety
FOUNDATION technology: solution for plant safety instrumented functions
Here are the considerations for applying this fieldbus in these applications
Competency framework for refinery process engineers
A new method can be used to create a learning curriculum, provide career guidance and build a knowledge repository
HP Automation Safety: Accounting for process connections in SIS design
 Many safety instrumented system (SIS) designers understand what happens when the process connection to a pressure transmitter gets plugged. The transmitter output will likely get very sluggish a..
What are the market opportunities for carbon dioxide?
Recovery of greenhouse gases has potential positive economics benefits
How to choose a ball valve that curbs fugitive emissions
Increasing environmental regulations require better choices for commonly used valves with greater reliability and leak-tight seals
Consider options to lower benzene levels in gasoline
New regulations further limit this aromatic from the refinery blending pool
HP Control: Condenser hot vapor bypass control
What is the worst mistake? It is the one that is repeated in practically every refinery, and yet, we haven't managed to learn from it. I have chosen to discuss the very simple distillation column pres..
Fine-tune compliance requirements for your company
Internet-based technologies improve managing environmental and safety information in petrochemical facilities
Psychrometric effluent water evaporation
This novel zero-discharge method can reduce your operating costs
HP Automation Safety: Biggest design mistakes in SIS
I can just imagine the debate and opinions that arise regarding design mistakes. So, what is the biggest design mistake in safety instrumented systems (SISs)? Some would quickly explain that the great..
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