As all companies have been challenged by the current economic and health crisis, the successful recovery requires a new view toward future development and growth with metrics that consider broad and more long-term goals. Featured in Hydrocarbon Processing, AspenTech’s Paige Morse shares considerations for building future resiliency that center around digitalization.

This article appeared in the 2018 American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) Conference Daily (Oct 2018) that highlighted the Operational Planning, Control and Automation Technologies session during which Chevron talked about the closed-loop, real-time coordination of a refinery middle distillate system, the benefits and key takeaways.

The 2015 Paris Agreement and other international climate change accords have helped raise global awareness of the need for countries to take urgent action to combat climate change. As companies continue to focus on sustainability, a common theme is taking shape around the role of digitalization as a key enabler. In fact, a recent ARC Advisory Group survey revealed that 75% of respondents rated digital transformation as highly important for achieving sustainability goals.

2015年《巴黎协定》和其他国际气候变化协定有助于提高全球对各国需要采取紧急行动应对气候变化的认识。随着企业继续关注可持续性，围绕数字化作为关键推动因素的作用，一个共同的主题正在形成。事实上，ARC咨询集团最近的一项调查显示，75%的受访者认为数字化转型对于实现可持续发展目标非常重要。

What is a Digital Twin and what does it do? View this infographic to learn what a digital twin is and how it provides important insight on system performance enabling companies to optimize operations and reduce costs by maximizing uptime with real-time recommendations.

Acid Gas Removal is a necessary step for removing carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide, but operations can be troublesome and costly. With impurities, process recycles, column internals and process configurations that introduce complexities in analysis, operational improvements can be difficult to identify and implement. In this introductory webinar learn how you can improve column operations with rate-based modeling, elevate analyses of systems with impurities and much more!

While most chemical companies have sustainability initiatives in place with varying reliance on digital technologies to achieve these goals, challenges remain. What are the key enablers to eliminate emissions and waste, extend material use and regenerate natural systems? How do new innovations accelerate this effort?

En el ambiente económico actual la industria del procesamiento de gas está ha-ciendo esfuerzos extras para reducir costos de operación e incrementar la produc-ción manteniendo la calidad de producto. Esto significa llevar la operación de la planta al límite, minimizando costos de capital en mejoras o modernizaciones, re-duciendo costos de servicios y desarrollando rápidamente diseños completos de la planta.

In the current economic environment, gas processors are going the extra mile to reduce operating costs and increase throughput while maintaining product quality. This means driving the gas plant to its limits, avoiding CAPEX in debottlenecking or upgrades, cutting operating costs and quickly developing complete designs.

Sulfur Recovery Units are often just one part of a process engineer’s responsibility, so when trouble arises in the SRU, it is helpful to turn to the experts. In this webinar, Sulphur Experts’ Ben Walton will join us to talk about how changes in the Claus reactors can impact, or not impact, the downstream Tail Gas Treating Unit, and how the overall recovery can be maintained.