February 2020
Special Focus: Digital Transformation
Leveraging modern flow technologies to improve safety in refineries
The refining industry is facing increased pressures, such as crude oil supply changes, changing product distributions and increasing regulations. These pressure points create a highly competitive market where refiners are looking for options that include digitally transforming operations and adapting new technologies to enhance safety and improve uptime, flexibility and efficiency, while securing their competitive position in a dynamic market. Improving personnel and process safety remains a top focus area for refiners.
The Authors
Meha Jha is a Refining Industry Marketing Manager for Emerson Flow Solutions. Since joining Emerson, she was selected for Emerson’s Engineers in Leadership Program, where she broadened her refining expertise by working on projects related to mass balance, fuels blending and utilizing flow measurement solutions to optimize production. She earned a BS degree in chemical engineering from Auburn University.
Julie Valentine is Director of Global Refining Flow Solutions for Emerson. She first joined Emerson in 1993 and worked as the Refining Industry Marketing Manager for Micro Motion products for 14 yr. In 2015, she became responsible for all of Emerson’s flow technologies for the refining industry. Ms. Valentine has authored numerous technical papers on various applications of flow technology in the refining industry and is a co-inventor on two U.S. patents. She is a member of several working committees for the instrumentation and control group of API’s Refining and Equipment Standards program. She holds a BS degree in chemical and petroleum refining engineering from the Colorado School of Mines.
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