Process Control
Editorial Comment: The tools advancing the HPI into the digital age
The HPI has been going through a digital transformation, increasingly adopting digital technologies to improve existing processes and structures to improve performance.
Improving asset utilization by closing the corrosion window
Driving profitable refinery operations often requires owner-operators to balance production flexibility and product optimization with asset availability and equipment reliability.
How to support condition monitoring with wireless instrumentation networks
When <i>Wireless</i>HART first hit the market in 2008, most of the native devices using it were process measurement instruments.
Executive Viewpoint: How digital transformation improves safety and reduces emissions
Digital transformation is a strategy for improving performance by applying technologies for measurement, connectivity, data storage, analytics and visualization
Applying tools to strengthen safety and risk management
The same characteristics that make hydrocarbons useful as fuels can also make refineries, and any other areas where processing or storage takes place, potentially dangerous.
Digital: Harnessing the power of digital platforms to improve plant performance and increase customer success
Digital online platforms offer significant potential benefits across the oil and gas value chain by employing advanced analytical tools and near-real-time access to technical expertise to improve day-to-day plant performance.
Virtual analyzers: Shaping the future of product quality
Product quality directly drives price and where hydrocarbons can be delivered.
Editorial Comment: Optimizing operations by advancing process controls, instrumentation and automation technologies
When driving by or visiting a refinery or petrochemical plant, one cannot help but gaze at the expansive sea of metal towers.
Selecting the right rotary control valve
The primary function of a control valve is to regulate flow. Accurate, consistent and reliable performance of this task affects many important process unit or plant metrics,
Extracting business value from digitalization in oil and gas
Most oil and gas companies are investing in digitalization; however, they often fail to move beyond proof of value (PoV) or pilot projects.
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- ADNOC L&S expands LNG fleet with order for four new carriers 7/10
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- Russian refineries, oil terminal, tankers hit, Ukraine says 7/10
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