Whitepapers

In petrochemical plants and refineries, tunable diode laser (TDL) gas analyzers are becoming an increasingly common sight. Their high reliability and low maintenance has made them the gas analyzer technology of choice for many companies. Installing a cross-stack TDL directly in a process pipe or vessel creates some installation and operational challenges and limitations which need to be considered carefully before considering their deployment. This white paper examines influences on the light beam and alignment of typical cross-pipe TDLs and contrasts that with the versatility of folded-path TDLs.

Transforming capital project execution requires new strategies and taking best practices from successful projects. This interactive ebook showcases actual successful capital projects and how companies across countries and industries are combining best-in-class project strategies and automation technologies to transform capital project execution.

Andrea Tradii; Stefano Rossin; and Riccardo De Paolis of GE Oil and Gas were the respective winners of the 2015 Don Miller Award for Excellence in System Level Thermo-Fluid Design. Their work discusses the value of simulating the multi-physics of the fluid-mechanical interactions of a steam turbine trip valve in Flowmaster.

This white paper highlights Galvanic’s approach to providing refinery operators with liquid analyzers that can help them realize improved product quality, better compliance with environmental regulations, and reduced operating costs.

Find out how to improve operational performance from an average to a top quartile performer by gaining new insights into your production and operating more successfully than ever before. Innovations in Plantweb process monitoring and analytics are delivering actionable information to help transform plant performance and meet your OPEX goals.

The falling cost of connectivity and data storage, processes across the entire Oil & Gas value chain are now able to gather more data from more devices, assets, operations and processes than ever before. Refiners in particular, stand to gain value quickly because the existing IT infrastructure is more mature compared to upstream & midstream. The foundation of this operational perspective starts with the basic principle of the closed loop process – Connect, Collect, Analyze and Act.

What are you doing to reduce unplanned downtime at your plant? Equipment breakdowns and process interruptions are a $20 billion USD problem. Millions are being spend on new maintenance solutions, but is that even addressing the problem? Effective, earlier detection of issues would eliminate these failures. Download this white paper to learn how leading manufacturers are using big data to solve reliability problems that only a few years ago were unsolvable. 

The success of PID schemes lies in the simplicity and the ability to understand in an intuitive way, the roles of the various parameters in the loop. However, there is one key disadvantage of the PID concept, namely that it is very difficult to optimize PID loops that interact with each other. INCA AptiTune it the software designed to handle these situations. It is able to optimally tune multiple interacting loops without guesswork. This white paper explains in detail the INCA AptiTune work flow, highlighting all the key functions and showing with real-life examples how IPCOS' customers and engineers have benefited.