Articles
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Getting immersed in details can doom a basic design contract to financial failure. |
02/13/2008 |
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Take the pressure off vacuum systems Proper design requires attention to often underappreciated issues. |
02/11/2008 |
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Build reliability in during design Instrumentation that promises to improve reliability may not always be what they seem. You have to consider whether a site can properly maintain sophisticated instruments. |
12/19/2007 |
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Simulate or model your loop tuning, operator training, advanced process control or optimization for savings, safety and skill-building. |
11/16/2007 |
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Traditional laboratory-based analytical techniques more and more are moving online and even being replaced by the virtual analysis offered by soft sensors and inferential measurements. |
10/30/2007 |
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Monthly Preview: December 2007 Here's a look at what will soon be featured on ChemicalProcessing.com. Be sure to check back for the latest articles, news and columns before you see it in print. |
10/02/2007 |
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Complimentary design software for tower internals Sign-up for design software from Sulzer Chemtech. |
09/17/2007 |
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Membrane Boasts Material Benefits As economical separation of contaminants from natural gas becomes increasingly important, simulation eases the design of innovative module to remove carbon dioxide. Membranes offer potential advantages over other methods. |
09/11/2007 |
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The Seven rules for successful simulation need to be revisited and revised because of advancements in computers. Simulations that once took weeks to compute an answer now take mere hours. |
09/06/2007 |
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Keep others from making classic mistakes A heat exchanger problem provides a textbook example of design limitations, according to Contributing Editor Andrew Sloley. |
04/24/2007 |
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Flame Modeling Provides Matchless Results A computer simulation helps solve a refinery combustion problem. Finding ways to limit NOx from fired heaters, especially under stringent environmental regulations, has become a major concern for the petroleum refining industry. Complying with new stricter regulations, a Texas refinery upgraded the burners in one of its large cylindrical furnaces. |
04/13/2007 |
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Understand and Control Hot Vapor Bypass Contributing Editor Andrew Sloley says pressure control technique works well if implemented properly, in this month's Plant InSites column. |
01/08/2007 |
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The traditional approach to experimentation, often referred to as the scientific method, requires changing only one factor at a time (OFAT), but this method only allows one to see things one dimension at a time. By varying factors only at two levels each, but simultaneously rather than one at a time, experimenters can uncover important interactions. |
11/01/2006 |
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Designing equipment for solids is not an exact science. The flows of gases and liquids are generally better understood than those of solids. Most production problems arise from flaws in the design. This article presents questions you can ask yourself to ensure reliable flow in your silo. |
09/22/2006 |
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Process analysis gains greater online role Faster. Smaller. Smarter. Modular. All express the future of process analytics. And un-stoppable describes the ongoing migration of process analytical instruments to continuous, online, field-mounted use at chemical plants. |
09/11/2006 |
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Better Design Is No Pipe Dream The benefits of using pipeline simulation tools at the piping and instrumentation diagram (P&ID) level, rather than running simulations just on the process flow diagram, can often be overlooked. |
07/17/2006 |
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Efforts aim to boost the use of dynamic models by process and control engineers. |
03/27/2006 |
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Wireless is poised for a big breakthrough in plant operations because of its ease of use, safety and potential for energy savings. |
03/14/2006 |
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Reviewing the use of fouling factors in heat exchanger design HTRI plans to review and analyze specific exchanger services to develop design margins for use in sizing heat exchangersrather than relying on fouling factors. |
02/16/2006 |
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Evaluate reactivity with limited resources The initial critical steps of reactivity risk reduction need not be expensive, time consuming and require extensive expertise. |
11/27/2005 |
