Geared to young and seasoned professionals alike, “Beyond back-to-basics: Process principles and concepts” is a series of articles designed to present a straightforward approach to mastering the ...

Blowing oxygen into molten steel in vacuum conditions saves time and money when compared to conventional steelmaking methods.

PJSC Gazprom Neft is implementing an integrated automated process control system (APCS) at its 430,000-b/d Omsk refinery in Western Siberia. PJSC Gazprom Neft is implementing an integrated automated ...

PLC evaluation board applications for industrial process-controlsystems are diverse, ranging from simple traffic control to complexelectrical power grids, from environmental control systems ...

WASHINGTON, DC, May 24, 2012 (ENS) – BP North America Inc. has agreed to pay an $8 million penalty and invest more than $400 million to install state-of-the-art pollution controls and cut emissions ...

Historically speaking, optimizing the refinery has been mostly focused on final products (e.g., gasoline and diesel), slowly shifting focus to conversion and upgrading process units across the ...

Operates and monitors refinery process units (e.g., crude/vacuum, hydrotreating, reforming, FCC, alkylation, isomerization, utilities, tank farm) to meet production ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Brazil's Petrobras received a license on Monday allowing it to boost crude processing by 35 percent at its controversial RNEST refinery, the local government said, a ...

At-a-Glance: Refinery quality control (QC) is a closed-loop system spanning feed receipt, in-process control, and blend/product certification, driven by lab testing, online analyzers, and APC/MPC to ...

Air quality regulators rolled out a new proposal this week to keep a toxic chemical used at refineries in Torrance and Wilmington from escaping and harming the public. They will explain the steps and ...