Mobile Navigation

Operations & Maintenance

Recommended Fluid Velocities in Pipelines

The recommended velocities for fluids’ transportation must be updated periodically to obtain the optimum value of the pipe diameter in the current economic conditions To arrive at the optimum diameters for pipes, the heuristic criteria of recommended velocity has been…

5 ways to Optimize Production of Polymers and Intermediate Petrochemicals

Polymer production and manufacturing the intermediate petrochemical products that constitute them, can be challenging due to the presence of hazardous, viscous, or corrosive chemical streams. These chemicals can be hard to manage, and tough on your equipment. Using the correct…

Member Exclusive

How to Troubleshoot and Maintain Pressure Regulators

Following a five-step process enables better outcomes for fluid system control Most often, operators and technicians will interact with components like ball valves or needle valves when adjusting a system’s operation. However, just as important to the effectiveness of a…

Member Exclusive

Best Practices in Capital Equipment Commissioning

Ensuring that real-world commissioning tests are properly executed can benefit both equipment end users and suppliers Every capital equipment project comes to a point when operations teams expect payback to begin on the investment. How soon those benefits are realized…

Member Exclusive

Commissioning and Startup: Increase Certainty Through Advanced Planning

Taking commissioning and startup into consideration during the early design phase can result in more predictable project schedules and more robust equipment designs Historically, new capital projects and facility upgrades in the chemical process industries (CPI) were designed with a…

Brewing Technology: An Old Art Looks Forward

Research and development in the brewing industry is peaking, driven by efforts to improve quality, efficiency and sustainability Within the chemical process industries (CPI), the brewing industry is among the sectors with the deepest historical roots and the most entrenched…

Improve Energy Management to Reduce Your Facility’s Carbon Footprint

This article describes an approach that uses data analytics for finding and addressing root causes of process deviations that reduce energy efficiency in key plant utility systems, and shares three case examples Discussion about climate change has been taking place…

Five Reasons Why Chemical Companies Are Switching to Tunable Diode Laser Analyzer Technology

As chemical plants look for ways of maintaining operational excellence and productivity at a reduced cost, naturally they will look at new instrumentation technologies that will give them a leading edge over competitors. When it comes to gas measurement, the…

CPI Booklist for September 2018

The following list of recently published book titles shown here are relevant to professionals in various parts of the chemical process industries (CPI)  Biotechnology of Metals: Principles, Recovery Methods and Environmental Concerns, By K.A. Natarajan, Elsevier ScienceDirect, 2018, 502 pages,…

Member Exclusive

Facts at your Fingertips: Redefining the Kilogram Standard

The kilogram is the last of the SI units (International System of Units) still defined by a physical object, rather than defined in terms of universal fundamental constants of nature. However, this will change in November 2018, as a multi-year…