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April 14, 2008
Improving refinery reliability, performance and utilization
If you ran one of the world’s largest refineries, what would be a priority to you? Well, keeping it running reliably comes to mind. That was the priority of the folks at Motiva’s 7 million gallon/day Norco, Louisiana refinery when they considered an automation upgrade. They wanted to be able to quickly respond to operational changes and have highly reliable intelligent field devices. Naturally they turned to Emerson Process Management for a DeltaV digital automation system and Fisher DVC control valves. They were keen on moving from reactive to predictive maintenance practices and the intelligence in Emerson’s field devices set the stage for operation without unplanned device failure. Motiva’s Jeff Funkhauser and Emerson’s Fred Manley wrote about the refineries progress in the October issue of Hydrocarbon Processing magazine (177KB PDF).
If you are considering upgrading to a more reliable, easier to operate facility, their experiences may provide some insights.
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