Emerson's Sudhir Jain joins us in this FIRSTHAND Operational Certainty in a Pod podcast as a follow up to our earlier 5 Questions for an Emerson Expert podcast with Sudhir. As an Operational Certainty consultant, he shares some of the oil & gas applications for...
Sudhir Jain
Optimized and Flexible Refinery Blending for Current Market Conditions
Refinery blending operations are the "cash registers" since it "…is the last chance to optimize the final saleable product, as well as the final opportunity to achieve as close to product specifications as possible." A recent RBN Energy blog post, The Price You Pay...
5 Questions for Oil & Gas Industry Consultant Sudhir Jain
We continue our 5 Questions for an Emerson Expert podcast series with Sudhir Jain. Sudhir has vast experience in consulting with oil & gas upstream, midstream and downstream producers as well as many other process industries. He shares his path to where he's at...
Improving Coalescer, Separator and Reactor Control Performance
In adhesive production processes, coalescers and separators are used to accelerate the separation of immiscible liquid (completely insoluble) dispersions. I learned about this from Emerson's Sudhir Jain and Mark Coughran, who shared a recent visit they made with an...
Pipeline Leak Detection Best Practices
A recent LinkedIn post, Leak Detection Market for Oil & Gas worth 2.71 Billion USD by 2020, at a CAGR of 7.1% highlights the purpose of these leak detection systems: …to assist the pipeline operators and monitors in detecting and localizing the leakage. This leak...
Improve Costs and Operational Performance in Oil and Gas Production
Emerson's Sudhir Jain shared an interesting McKinsey & Company article, The next frontier for digital technologies in oil and gas, describing how this industry historically and today, embraces technologies to improve business performance. This was true even 30...
Minimizing Valuable Octane Giveaway
With many of the hydrocarbons falling in price, one exception has been octane (C8H18). Its structure comes in many forms or isomers—18 according to its Wikipedia entry. These octanes are: …a family of hydrocarbon that are typical components of gasoline. They are...
Calculating Fluid Density Changes in Foundation Fieldbus Devices
I received this question on density measurement and wanted to share what I found out. I understand all dP flow measurements are affected by the density of the fluid (liquid or gas) flowing through orifice, annubar, pitot tube, etc. Most dP measurements in process...
Modernizing and Optimizing Experiences to Share
Let's highlight a few more of the accepted presentations from Emerson experts presenting at the October 12-16 Emerson Exchange conference in Denver. You can download a spreadsheet with the entire list of accepted abstracts here. These presentations share experiences,...
Custody Transfer Risk Assessment
It is one thing to transfer ownership between seller and buyer when the item sold comes in discrete units. It's another when it is a free-flowing fluid through pipes. In the process industries, this ownership transfer is known as custody transfer. Wikipedia defines...
Optimizing LNG Plant Projects and Process Operations
While the energy markets continue to adjust to the growing supplies of natural gas through increasing shale gas production, project and operational goals around shorter schedules, faster startups, and maximized production rates remain constant. I caught up with...
First Gaining Experience and then Implementing Large-Scale Digital Bus Projects
Jack Murray, a member of Emerson's Metals, Mining, and Minerals industry team, shared a paper he had co-written with an Alcan Gove bauxite mine and alumina refinery staff member and Emerson fieldbus consultant, Sudhir Jain. Alcan was recently purchased by Rio Tinto....
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