The oil and gas production explosion is driving the renaissance of the chemical and process industries in North America. With low-cost natural gas comes low-cost feedstock for many chemical compounds, ...

A science- and risk-based approach to verify and demonstrate that a process operating within predefined specified parameters consistently produces material that meets all its critical quality ...

I’ve blogged often in the past few months (here, for instance) about the emerging platform operations model and how it creates a more intimate, dynamic relationship between the tech stack and business ...

Advanced process control (APC) has incorporated and will continue to incorporate new technologies and methodologies that allow refiners and petrochemical plant operators to achieve and sustain ...

This article overviews some of the benefits and methods of state-based control as it applies to the models defined by the ISA106, Procedure Automation for Continuous Process Operations standards ...

To make the best use of the available installation in any mineral process operation, it is important to run an optimized plant. Traditional optimization can involve optimizing a piece of equipment on ...