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Equipment

Applying tools to strengthen safety and risk management

Emerson: Pinto, N.

The same characteristics that make hydrocarbons useful as fuels can also make refineries, and any other areas where processing or storage takes place, potentially dangerous.

Manage project spares efficiently with these best practices

M/s Indorama India Private Ltd.: Iyer, K. R.

Managing project spares is a very challenging task—one that is very different from managing a large warehouse.

Using ASME Section VIII Division 2 Class 1 to your advantage

McDermott: Nawandar, S.

It is globally recognized that ASME codes are widely used international codes for the construction of mechanical equipment operating in power, refining, petrochemical and nuclear facilities.

Maximize the value of tank laser scan data

PEMY Consulting: Trotter, B.

API 653 Annex B is the standard for evaluating tank bottom settlement.

Digital: Harnessing the power of digital platforms to improve plant performance and increase customer success

ExxonMobil: Ratcliff, K.

Digital online platforms offer significant potential benefits across the oil and gas value chain by employing advanced analytical tools and near-real-time access to technical expertise to improve day-to-day plant performance.

Virtual analyzers: Shaping the future of product quality

Validere: Robinson, P.  |  O'Hara, T.

Product quality directly drives price and where hydrocarbons can be delivered.

Reliability: What to do when equipment reliability is on a downward slope

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

When a reliability professional located halfway around the world asked for guidance on how to reverse declining equipment reliability at his world-scale fertilizer plant, we answered.

What went wrong with my furnace?

Engineers India Ltd.: Patel, R.  |  Mahra, R. K.

We should learn from our own mistakes and experiences, but it is wiser to keep track of and learn from all past mistakes and experiences, including those made by others.

Editorial Comment: Optimizing operations by advancing process controls, instrumentation and automation technologies

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

When driving by or visiting a refinery or petrochemical plant, one cannot help but gaze at the expansive sea of metal towers.

Selecting the right rotary control valve

Emerson: Helfer, W.  |  Jablonski, J.

The primary function of a control valve is to regulate flow. Accurate, consistent and reliable performance of this task affects many important process unit or plant metrics,