Refining
Seven imperatives for modern inventory management solutions
Today’s terminal operators are facing several challenges related to the profitability of their bulk terminal, petrochemical and oil field storage sites.
Virtual analyzers: Shaping the future of product quality
Product quality directly drives price and where hydrocarbons can be delivered.
Achieve refinery cost savings with real-time hydrogen monitoring
As stay-at-home orders and state mandates to shelter in place made waves around the globe in early 2020, nearly every industry was severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
What went wrong with my furnace?
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
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
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,
Fired heaters in the process industries: Optimizing operations and minimizing emissions
The process industries, which include chemicals, metals and mining, oil and gas, petrochemicals, pulp and paper, and refining, are very energy intensive
Improving process pumps requires technical and managerial action
For many years, manufacturers have emphasized low price over high reliability.
Business Trends: A sustainable future—Unraveled
With the prominence in the oil and gas industry around sustainability, it is worthwhile to examine what it means to be “sustainable.”
Unconventional improvement of propylene recovery yield at the PP splitter
Thermocompression-equipped propane-propylene (PP) splitters are used to upgrade large quantities of refinery-grade propylene (RGP) to polymer-grade propylene (PGP).

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