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Pump Reliability and Safety Webinar

Posted in Asset Optimization, Plant Equipment, Refining on Monday, September 19th, 2011. No comments yet

Tags: dynamic performance monitoring, pump health, pump reliability, pump safety, unplanned equipment failure, wireless measurement

I saw an inside-the-firewall blog post from Emerson’s Tim Olsen about an upcoming, no charge, HART Energy Webinar. The title of the webinar is Reliability and Safety Improvements with Pump Health Monitoring. It will be held September 28th at 10:00am CDT (13:00 UTC). The HART Energy Webinar site provides background for the webinar: Improving reliability [...]

Addressing the Challenges of the Renewable Fuel Standards Regulations

Posted in Refining, Regulatory Compliance on Thursday, July 28th, 2011. No comments yet

Tags: advanced biofuels, alternative energy, biodiesel, cellulosic ethanol, EISA, Emerson Exchange, energy Independence and Security Act, renewable fuel standards, RFS2

U.S. refiners have been changing the way they make the fuels we use every day as a result of federal regulations. Emerson’s Patrick Truesdale and Chris Connor will present at the 2011 Emerson Exchange on the Renewable Fuel Standards 2 (RFS2). These regulations became the law of the land with the Energy Independence and Security [...]

Monitoring Heat Exchangers for Fouling and Energy Inefficiencies

Posted in Heat Exchanger, Refining on Tuesday, July 26th, 2011. No comments yet

Tags: Desalter, Distillation Column, heat exchanger, IEC 62591, NPRA, wireless flow measurement, wireless temperature measurement, WirelessHART

A ScienceDirect.com abstract highlights the importance of heat exchangers in refinery energy-efficiency efforts: Crude oil fouling in pre-heat train heat exchangers has been a major problem in oil refining for decades. The operating problems, increased energy requirements and greenhouse gases emissions, which arise from the inefficiencies caused by fouling, are discussed. Emerson’s Tim Olsen and [...]

Large Capacity Coriolis Flow and Density Measurement

Posted in Measurement, Oil & Gas, Refining on Tuesday, May 24th, 2011. No comments yet

Tags: Coriolis density measurement, Coriolis flow measurement, crude oil receiving, drilling fluid measurement, flow turndown, gas pipeline, in-situ verification, oil pipeline, refining

I saw a tweet about “return-flow-from-rig capabilities” from Oil, Gas & Petrochem Equipment (OG&PE) publisher and editor, J.B. Avants. He points to a video where he interviews Emerson’s Denver Smart about applications for Micro Motion high-capacity Coriolis flowmeters. The video was captured at the recent Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) 2011. In the video, Denver notes [...]

Refinery Desalter Guided Wave Radar Level Measurement

Posted in Desalter, Measurement, Refining on Tuesday, April 5th, 2011. No comments yet

Tags: demulsifying chemical, Desalter, desalting process, electrostatic grid, emulsifier chemical, Guided Wave Radar, level measurement, oil/water interface, refinery, refining

Hydrocarbon Engineering magazine published an article by Emerson’s Sarah Parker, Using Guided Wave Radar for desalter interface measurements will improve efficiency, increase reliability and reduce maintenance. The article is not available online to non-subscribers, so I highlight a few points from the article. For those not familiar with a refinery’s desalting process, it is the [...]