Process Control
Schneider Electric touts new software releases at customer conference
Schneider Electric continued its 2014 Software Global Customer Conference with an overview of new product releases from its Avantis, SimSci and Wonderware product lines.
GE Oil & Gas to open new Florida plant for control valves, regulators
The new facility will manufacture GE’s Mooney regulators and Becker control valves for the energy industry, among other oil and gas industry products. It is expected to open in November 2014.
Yokogawa to control new Pemex diesel plant
This project involves the construction of an ultra-low-sulfur diesel fuel plant at the Pemex Cadereyta refinery complex, which is located in Nuevo Leon state in northeastern Mexico.
HP Automation Strategies: The promise of cognitive computing
The global hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI) has long been challenged with applying expertise consistently throughout the organization. Demographic trends and new technological advances promise to..
Rockwell to automate LSB ammonia expansion
Rockwell will serve as the main automation contractor, providing a $3.5 million PlantPAx process automation system with electrical, controls and instrumentation services, and a motor control system.
Innovative modeling of heavy crudes provides competitive advantages
The increase in heavy crude production, together with the diversity of heavy crude characteristics and sources, leads to technical challenges in accurately predicting production and refining process performance.
HP Automation Strategies: Energy management lessons from Europe
ARC Advisory Group research indicates that, by applying appropriate energy management measures, energy-intensive companies can reduce their energy consumption by 30% to 40% over a 15-year timespan. Th..
HP Innovations
Small-capacity SRUs available for petchemsPrincipal Technology offers sulfur recovery units (SRUs) (Fig. 1) specifically designed for small-capacity petrochemical plants. The SRUs are available in nam..
Honeywell upgrades automation for petrochemical expansion in Qatar
The upgrade will help the plant reduce operating costs and improve efficiencies as it increases production of methanol and MTBE, a key gasoline additive that reduces tailpipe emissions.
Consider high-fidelity online motor fuel characterization
Motor fuels are complex products. Various diesel fuel and gasoline grades are prepared from a large range of individual blending components whose individual properties may be extremely variable over t..
- Consortium launches study to create a consolidated hub for recycled plastics 5/22
- Eni strengthens its global LNG strategy with long-term supply agreements in Indonesia 5/22
- Breakthrough shows how electricity could replace heat to turn CO₂ into useful chemicals 5/22
- bp's Whiting Refinery offers revised proposal to union in ongoing talks 5/22
- Plains oil pipeline partly shut down after rupture in East Los Angeles (U.S.), could disrupt supplies to refineries 5/22
- Vitol moves to open Mexico fuel terminal years after bribery scandal 5/22
