Costs for facility management can run very high in operations of any size. This results in owners, managers, and supervisors constantly on the lookout for new ways to reduce them. With the right planning, any organization can cut costs. Following … Continue reading
The cost of equipment maintenance can be the largest expense in an operation of any size. In some cases, these maintenance management costs can be greater than their entire net profit for that year. Owners, managers, and supervisors are constantly … Continue reading
Plant managers and executives should consider utilizing digital technologies for their ability to identify additional profits from existing capacity. Researchers at McKinsey & Company discovered that the effective use of digital technologies in the oil and gas sector alone could … Continue reading
According to Markets and Markets, the machine condition monitoring market reached an estimated value of $2.21 billion for 2017. This market is expected to grow to $3.5 billion by the year 2024. It includes items such as vibration monitoring, oil … Continue reading
The simplistic view of operational shutdowns and turnarounds is that they are maintenance events. A more realistic approach considers that the impact and scope of these events extends far beyond the mentioned functions. They can command significant capital, time, and … Continue reading
Let’s say during your next planned turnaround, you hire a walkway company to build and remove walkways around tanks, columns, and other vessels. You are doing this because of the likely scenario that no one on your staff is qualified … Continue reading
Flooding is an undesirable but common enough occurrence in the industrial distillation process. It happens when liquid accumulates in the column caused by excessive upward vapor flow. This results in massive entrainment that restricts the liquid down flow in the … Continue reading
Good column internal installation is vital for optimum tower performance, as well as trouble-free shutdowns. The mass transfer performance of a packed column is exceedingly dependent on the quality of the column internals. Optimal configuration to the tower packings as … Continue reading
Random packings have been successfully used as an effective and cost effective means to increase a tower’s capacity and efficiency for several decades. First generation random packing Raschig rings are still in use but have been displaced by new generations … Continue reading
Mist elimination, or the removal of entrained liquid droplets from a vapor stream, is one of the most commonly encountered processes regardless of unit operation. The engineered mist eliminator can reduce liquid carryover by a significant factor, drop head losses … Continue reading