Engineering & Design
Successful multivariable control without plant tests
First-principles dynamic simulation models can be used instead
Optimize sour water treatment
This checklist details several common problems associated with sour-water strippers and the workarounds to correct them
Crude oil blend scheduling optimization: an application with multimillion dollar benefits – Part 1
The ability to schedule the crude oil blendshop more effectively provides substantial downstream benefits
Duplex versus triplex architectures for process control systems
There is no significant availability difference when the impact of field devices is considered
Increase propylene yields cost-effectively
Using a new catalytic system, steamcrackers can produce more C3s from existing units
Prevent adsorber bed failure
Improved operational integrity minimizes plant upsets and challenges
Is your process correctly scaled to manufacture consistent product?
Mixing technology is a vital parameter for premium processing
New approach to real-time optimization using neural networks and fuzzy logic
The main advantages are simpler models and reduced computation time
Jump to the next level of IT productivity
Applying the same ROI requirement for every dollar spent on IT that is used on non-IT spending, management can dramatically turn potentially huge capital drains into great gains
Minimize flaring with flare gas recovery
To reduce facility-wide air emission, a refinery retrofitted the flare system and reuses waste gas as fuel gas
- BASF supports European 1,4‑butanediol supply security through increased production in Ludwigshafen 2/16
- Vitol backs proposed $3-billion LNG power plant for South Africa's Durban port 2/16
- HAMR Energy receives additional funding for low-carbon liquid fuels projects 2/16
- NASCAR names POET official bioethanol partner: Becomes first major motorsports series to utilize zero-carbon bioethanol 2/16
- ExxonMobil starts third advanced plastics recycling unit at Baytown complex 2/16
- Geoinform, subsidiary of the MOL Group, signs strategic cooperation agreement with Baker Hughes 2/16
