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Chemical Manufacturing Moving to Ends of the Spectrum

Posted in Chemical, Operations Management on Tuesday, July 12th, 2011. One comment so far
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The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), a global professional membership organization for people who have an interest in and experience in chemical engineering, triennially holds an event, Advances in Process Control 9 (APC 9). This year’s event will be September 19-21 in York in the United Kingdom. The event is described: It is well understood [...]

Functional Safety, a SIF-Based Approach, and Burner Management

Posted in Chemical, Safety on Thursday, October 21st, 2010. No comments yet
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Earlier this week, Emerson’s Chuck Miller and Mike Boudreaux were at the ChemInnovations 2010 conference in Houston, Texas. During this session, presenters talked about topics related to safety and security for instrumentation, automation, and control in the chemical and petrochemical process industries. Chuck reported on the process safety system presentations that covered a wide variety [...]

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Efficiently Cracking Hydrocarbons in Ethylene Furnaces

Posted in Chemical, Process Optimization on Friday, July 2nd, 2010. One comment so far
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A few weeks ago, I relayed a story from Emerson’s James Beall about a process of ongoing plant control performance improvements on which he’s been working with a process manufacturer. He said he had another great story about an ethylene furnace optimization project. Not being the patient sort, I gave it a few weeks and [...]

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Reducing Distillation Column Energy Usage

Posted in Chemical, Distillation Column, Industrial Energy, Refining on Friday, April 2nd, 2010. No comments yet
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I saw some startling facts in a presentation by Emerson’s Pete Sharpe, whom you may recall from many process optimization-related posts. This week he visited The Automation Group (TAG) office in Houston, to discuss distillation and fired heater optimization. I was speaking with Aaron Crews who was able to catch this presentation. Aaron’s expertise has [...]

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Practical Ways to Save Energy in Your Plant

Posted in Chemical, Energy Management, Industrial Energy on Friday, January 15th, 2010. No comments yet
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A recent Wall Street Journal article, U.S. Expects Steady Climb in Energy Prices opens: Energy prices are undergoing a long, slow march higher as major economies shake off the effects of last year’s recession, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said Tuesday in its monthly outlook. This outlook has many process manufacturers in energy-intensive industries again [...]

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Ethylene Process Loss Reduction and Energy Efficiency Improvement

Posted in Chemical, Energy Management on Monday, November 30th, 2009. No comments yet
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Reconciling Mass and Energy Balances in an Ethylene Complex is the name of a presentation recently given by Emerson’s Patrick Truesdale. The venue was the 2009 AIChE annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee. Patrick is a senior consultant on the Industry Solutions team and has a wealth of experience in the refining and petrochemical industries. Reconciling [...]

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Batch On-Line Data Analytics

Posted in Chemical, Emerson Exchange, Operator Performance on Wednesday, September 30th, 2009. No comments yet
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At Emerson Exchange 2009, Lubrizol’s Bob Wojewodka and Emerson’s Terry Blevins presented, Benefits Achieved Using On-Line Data Analytics. Lubrizol and Emerson have worked together to develop on-line batch analytics as a beta test. The objective was to demonstrate on-line prediction of quality and economic parameters and evaluate different means of on-line fault detection and identification. [...]

Wireless Applications for Chemical Industry Webinar Series

Posted in Chemical, Wireless on Thursday, August 27th, 2009. No comments yet
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In an earlier post, I mentioned a series of European Chemical Industry Wireless on-line webinars. I received a note from the team that the dates and topic focus for the rest of the 2009 webinars have been set. The intent is to show ways chemical manufacturers are using wireless technologies to improve the way they [...]

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Olefin Plant Energy Saving Opportunities

Posted in Chemical, Energy Management, Process Optimization on Wednesday, July 29th, 2009. One comment so far
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I managed to get my hands on a great paper, Olefin Plant Energy Savings through Enhanced Automation, written by Emerson’s Dr. Douglas C. White, whom you may recall from earlier posts. Doug is a principal consultant who leads the Process Improvement and Optimization Consulting team. He presented this paper at the AIChE Spring National Meeting [...]

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European Chemical Industry Wireless Webinar Series

Posted in Chemical, Wireless on Monday, June 29th, 2009. No comments yet
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Technologies continue to be introduced, which impact our lives. In the world of process automation, wireless technologies connecting instrumentation to process automation and asset management systems are impacting the way process manufacturers can operate their plants. The Emerson European Chemical industries team will be hosting a series of webinars to show ways chemical manufacturers are [...]

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