The concept of digital twins has been around since 1960s, but the term was first introduced nearly a decade ago by NASA’s John Vickers. Until very recently, adoption of digital twins has been inconsistent, but acceptance looks to be accelerating with recent market shifts. Today’s users are seeing exponential benefits by deploying multiple digital twins across sites. The next wave of digitalization innovations, powered by digital twins and AI, is creating new levels of agility and flexibility, paving the way to autonomous operations.
The chemical industry, like other capital-intensive industries, generates large amounts of data that never gets collected, contextualized and used to its full potential. Industrial data from a variety of sources and locations has the potential to help organizations meet energy efficiency goals, avoid raw materials/feedstock shortages, decrease downtime, increase profitability and improve ESG reporting. Join this live webinar to learn how chemical producers are using AspenTech Inmation to ingest, centralize and transform siloed, disparate data into actionable information.
Mechanical seals have been the dominant sealing technology for refineries and chemical plants for decades. But how much do you know about proper system design and how it eases maintenance? Since something as simple as strategically integrating bypass lines can help increase rotating equipment uptime, it is important to understand the basics of how seal support systems work so you can optimize their use in your facilities.
If you are tasked with keeping rotating equipment online and operating efficiently, and you are interested in learning more about mechanical seals and the systems that support their long-term operation, Swagelok’s upcoming free webinar is for you. Join us on April 4 at 11 a.m. ET as Matt Dixon, Application Commercialization Manager, discusses:
• The main functions of a mechanical seal support system
• How these systems help eliminate potential leak points and increase safety while lessening time spent auditing connections and making repairs
• Optimal system designs according to API 682, and how to select them
Despite the billions of dollars spent on sophisticated control and safety software, factors such as human error, manual processes, lack of process compliance, siloed systems, and poor procedures and training can contribute to unreliability and lead to costly industrial accidents.
So how can companies effectively mitigate industrial risk to provide a safer, more productive facility for their people, their business and the environment?
Join us as our panel of chemical industry leaders and operations experts discusses how Operations Risk Management (ORM) can help companies successfully address the chaos caused by costly human errors, disconnected, inadequate software systems and unreliable, paper-based processes and procedures.
Tune in to this informational webinar to learn how digitalizing your operations can transform your business by:
• Enhancing your safety-critical processes
• Improving high-risk operational procedures and work processes
• Visualizing your operations for clear, consistent process documentation and procedures
• Centralizing plant asset information
• Reducing human error and optimizing productivity using critical safety and production information for greater operator situation awareness
In our webinar, we show you how to get a handle on your data using Sartorius Lab Instruments and Data Analytics Software. Discover how data integrity and connectivity combined with robust data analytics can optimize your manufacturing processes, increase your yield, and help you bring quality cells and packs to the market faster.
With dynamic market conditions, tight profit margins and stringent emission targets, process industries are facing a dual challenge of achieving ambitious sustainability goals while meeting growth targets. Companies must chart a course to rapidly overcome these challenges in a volatile market.
Join our experts as they share how innovative, integrated digital solutions enable you and your teams to:
Discover how industrial AI-powered energy efficiency solutions reduce energy 2-10%, increase production 5-15% and drive over $1M/year in profit margins while accelerating GHG emission targets.
Operational Technology/Industrial Control System (OT/ICS) Inventory encompasses endpoints, or components of an endpoint, that have a model number, serial number, or version number. This includes hardware, firmware and software running in the OT/ICS environment. The systems to be included in your OT/ICS inventory should include DCS, PLC, SIS, Vibration Monitoring, Fire and Gas Systems, Burner Management Systems, Advanced Process Control, Turbine Machinery Controller, Compressor Controls, Historians, Protective Relays, Smart Instrumentation, Operator Stations, Engineering Stations, Switches, Routers, Firewalls, etc.
In this webinar you’ll learn how to attain a comprehensive asset inventory that captures vital data from level 0 – level 3.5 of the Purdue Model to not only improve your cybersecurity posture but also your day-to-day operations.
By condensing at lower temperatures, the Wet Surface Air Cooler allows for increased condensing capacity when compared to dry coolers. When comparing to traditional evaporative cooling techniques, such as cooling towers and heat exchangers, the wet surface air cooler can save water as well. Traditional clean water sources are not required so alternative makeup streams allow even further savings.
Applications such as LNG, cryogenic distillation/separation and other industrial refrigeration processes can reduce operating costs and carbon footprint through the use of direct latent heat rejection via Wet Surface Air Cooling. The evaporative condensing process reduces the amount of air required for cooling and thus lowers motor power consumption as well.
IIoT makes it possible to automate chemical manufacturing operations, provide traceability of data for quality control and enable digitized regulatory reporting. The first step towards successfully implementing IIoT in chemical manufacturing is establishing connections to manufacturing machines, processes, databases, and supply chains and making the data available to the enterprise data center in a secure, scalable and reliable manner.However, data connectivity and availability are a big challenge.
As the process industries transition towards new sustainability and decarbonization paradigms, digitalization plays an essential role for companies that intend to reach environmental targets and remain profitable. The tradition of having data embedded in physical documents has been replaced by the underlying data being stored digitally, which becomes the first step to build a reliable Digital Twin. By combining digital data with models and analytics, teams are empowered with proper and timely decision-making, driving operational excellence toward a more sustainable future. This webinar will use digital twin technology to illustrate the lifecycle of a renewable hydrogen plant from conception to production to deliver a cost-effective production solution. The webinar will also outline the development of digital tools and the necessary new technologies required to address the burgeoning needs of industry as it drives towards sustainability goals supporting net-zero manufacturing and the energy transition.
*Learn more about how Digital Twins are transforming the Hydrogen industry
*See how to make better use of your engineering and operating data to improve sustainability
*Explore how integrated digital solutions can reduce your commercial risk for new projects