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Design an efficient and cost-effective system for corrosion deterioration mechanism diagnosis and detection planning
CTCI, Corp.: C. C. Huang
AI / Automation / Corrosion / Engineering & Design / Environment & Safety / Equipment / Loss Prevention / Maintenance & Reliability

Design safer reactors: Use nullcline analysis to predict transient behavior in CSTRs
AKC Technology: A. K. Coker
Cracking / Engineering & Design / Environment & Safety / Refining / Reactors

Secure the future of process automation through IT/OT convergence
Valmet: M. Davis
AI / Digital Technologies / Distributed Control System / Engineering & Design / Petrochemicals / Process Optimization / Process Control / Refining / Automation

How AI agents can finally close industry’s most persistent blind spot
Akselos: C. Reimers
AI / Automation / Digital Technologies / Distributed Control System / Engineering & Design / Information Systems / Petrochemicals / Refining

Transform gas metering and pipeline monitoring through digitalization: Is hydrocarbon dewpoint a dependable metric?
Process Vision: P. Stockwell
Analyzers / Digital Technologies / Engineering & Design / Equipment / Instrumentation / Information Systems / Natural Gas

De-stressing pipe stress analysis
Bentley Systems: P. Senior
Digital Technologies / Engineering & Design / Environment & Safety / Petrochemicals / Process Optimization / Project Management / Refining

Operational intelligence in biofuels: Unlock efficiency with advanced instrumentation
ABB: M. Tajjiou
AI / Automation / Biofuels / Carbon Management / Digital Technologies / Environment / Instrumentation / Process Optimization

Sustainability and The Energy Transition

Too small to be viable? SMRs and their potential to economy-wide decarbonization—Part 2
Independent Consultant: S. Wattanasoponvanij
Carbon Capture / Carbon Management / Engineering & Design / Environment & Safety / Hydrogen / Reactors

Process Optimization

Mercaptan recombination in naphtha hydrotreating units: A startup challenge
Cracking / Engineering & Design / Hydrotreating / Process Optimization / Refining

Heat Exchange/Management

Trade-off analysis between fired heater safety logic and operability: Challenges of excessive safety instrumentation
Saudi Aramco: Ali, S. A. W.  |  A. Rodriguez  |  M. R. Hafeez  |  Ghadeer, A. S.
Engineering & Design / Environment & Safety / Equipment / Furnaces / Heat Transfer / Refining / Safety / Distributed Control System / Digital Technologies

Valves, Pumps, Turbomachinery and Compressors

An introduction to valves standards
Contributing Editor: Choudhury, M. G.
KBR: A. Ashesh  |  D. Jain
Engineering & Design / Environment & Safety / Valves

Microgrids, Power and Utilities

Powering the next industrial shift
Emerson: M. Lewis
Emerson’s Aspen Technology business: T. J. Surbella
Automation / Digital Technologies / Engineering & Design / Environment / Equipment / Process Optimization

Columns

Cybersecurity in oil and gas: Protecting critical infrastructure and operations in the digital age
Spencer Fane LLP: S. Tuma
Automation / Digital Technologies / Environment & Safety / Equipment / Information Systems / Loss Prevention / Petrochemicals / Process Control / Process Optimization / Refining