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Russia's Tuapse oil refinery suspends processing due to low margins

Digital Exclusive: Unlocking the power of hydrogen processing: Ensuring safety and driving profits

Harnessing the potential of hydrogen for energy generation requires a deep understanding of the associated safety considerations. When it comes to hydrogen processing, it’s important to examine hydrogen’s unique challenges and the innovative approaches that business leaders can adopt to ensure safety while driving profitability in the hydrogen processing industry.

Truly effective reliability requires predictive maintenance

To navigate this new digital world, organizations must find ways to bring in new technologies to support the limited personnel they have, but without increasing the complexity of those people’s jobs or overwhelming them with raw data they are not trained to use. The solution is to implement a predictive maintenance technology plan founded on a boundless automation vision of seamlessly moving contextualized data wherever it is needed.

Configure safety communication to unleash your safety culture’s true potential

From an industrial perspective, effective communication is an integral part of achieving an injury-free workplace. This article provides the benefits of developing a safety management system to build a culture of safety in plants.

Alarm management and operator training: Case studies for a sulfur recovery unit

This article will provide an in-depth insight of an operator training simulator, as well as the basic features of creating a virtual plant in which the operators are allowed to train and test various operating scenarios. It will also highlight the inbuilt scenarios inside the model—most importantly, the startup, shutdown and specific upset scenarios.  

Zero-liquid discharge: A stepping stone to water sustainability—Part 2

This article will evaluate zero-liquid discharge technologies and the preliminary treatment, disposal or further treatment for a preliminary treated system.  

Refinery/petrochemical makeup water treatment: A general guide for technical personnel—Part 2

A very important—and sometimes overlooked—unit operation within processing facilities is makeup water treatment for steam generators and other processes. Many cases have been documented in which makeup system upsets have led to boiler tube failures that partially or completely shut down unit processes. This article serves as a guide for those employees who may be on a steep learning curve when it comes to makeup system understanding.

Wood to operate and maintain one of the world’s largest plastics recycling facilities

Wood, a global leader in consulting and engineering, has been awarded a three-year contract to operate and maintain the Freepoint Eco-Systems plant in Hebron, Ohio (U.S.).

Thermal decomposition of particulate mercury sulfides in petroleum—Part 1

Traces of particulate mercury sulfide (HgS) in stabilized crude oils transform to elemental mercury below 400°C in refinery distillation units. The authors evaluated this transformation and measured reaction rates and activation energies in crude oil and Hg-spiked mineral oil, using glass vessels at atmospheric pressure and a microunit at 1,000 psig.

Deliver sustainable benefits through site-wide process digital twins

Refiners have used offline process models for decades. The next generation of solutions is anticipated to operate automatically, integrate with legacy systems and provide transparency site-wide.