Loss Prevention

Digital Feature: Enhancing ethylene cracker radiant tube integrity through innovative robotic inspection

Radiant tube failure ranks as a primary cause of unplanned shutdowns in ethylene cracking furnaces. This article examines tube failures via carburization, along with a proprietary technology that provides comprehensive multi-aspect inspection data to mitigate ethylene radiant tube failures.

Are resources and capacity the same?

If you are involved in the delivery of capital projects, there is a good chance that you may have heard, or even used, expressions such as, “We have a resource-loaded schedule,” “We are behind schedule, so let’s add more resources,” or “We need to increase our capacity.”

Implementing digital lifecycle solutions to improve performance and plant operations

Most of us have used licensed software—whether a personal computer operating system, a word processor or something less mainstream—consistently.

Automation technology supports growing demand for green diesel

The search to find alternatives to petroleum-based transportation fuels is nothing new.

Digital Feature: Guiding a chopper valve application

Sample high-viscosity fluids safely in refinery settings

In a modern refinery setting, production processes are expected to be streamlined to maximize value from beginning to end.

Differential thermal expansion and welding problems in dissimilar joint of carbon steel to austenitic stainless-steel piping in high-temperature applications

Joining dissimilar piping materials has found widespread application in various process plant piping, most notably in jacketed piping with carbon-steel jackets and austenitic stainless-steel core piping with stainless-steel end closures that require welding to carbon-steel jacket piping.

Maximizing the advantages of electric actuator diagnostics

Driven by stringent greenhouse gas emissions regulations and technical improvements, electric valve actuators are becoming increasingly common in applications throughout the process industry.

Emerson's vision to break down silos and bring boundless automation

At the Emerson Exchange Immerse 2023, Emerson displayed its various technologies and contributions to its partners and users. The opening briefing focused on process control systems and software solutions, such as DeltaV Automation Platform, Ovation and AMS Machine Works. Claudio Fayad, VP, Technology, Process Systems and Solutions for Emerson, kicked things off by providing an update on the company’s Boundless Automation Vision, which regards breaking down silos.

Energy comparison for heat pump and bottom flashing schemes for C₃ hydrocarbon system

Propane-propylene splitters are present in significant numbers across petrochemical complex units, such as ethylene crackers and propane dehydrogenation units.