The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB; Washington, D.C.; www.csb.gov) today released its final investigation report into the fatal October 10, 2024 release of toxic hydrogen sulfide at the PEMEX Deer Park Refinery in Deer Park, Texas. Two…
At the recent ARC Industry Leadership Forum event, Schneider Electric (Rueil-Malmaison, France, www.se.com), a global energy technology leader, announced the introduction of EcoStruxure™ Foxboro Software Defined Automation (SDA), the industry’s first open, software‑defined Distributed Control System (DCS). This breakthrough combines…
At the 30th ARC Industry Leadership Forum in Orlando in February, the prominent themes focused on industrial uses of artificial intelligence (AI), and involved the evolving digital transformation. In exploring these broad topics, presenters explored workforce challenges, such as combating…
The revamp approach discussed here can deliver a 5% throughput increase at autothermal reformer (ATR)-based methanol plants without requiring any major equipment replacements or modifications Growing global methanol demand and tightening margins are pushing producers toward brownfield expansions that extract…
This company recently launched QureFlow Max, the largest and highest-capacity system within QureFlowTM platform. The system is purpose-built for upstream produced-water applications, where water volumes, variability, and uptime requirements exceed the limits of conventional treatment technologies. Designed specifically for large-scale…
This company’s spill-containment trays are designed to catch material drips and spills, thus enhancing workplace safety and efficiency. They prevent contamination by catching and containing substances to keep them from spreading. Better containment, especially of hazardous materials, minimizes the need…
Veolia (Paris, France; www.veolia.com), alongside the Water Environment Federation (WEF; Alexandria, Va.; www.wef.org) and the American Water Works Association (AWWA; Denver, Colo.; www.awwa.org), today launched Veolia Workforce Academy North America, a free fully digital workforce training and employment pathway program,…
The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB; Washington, D.C.; www.csb.gov) released a new safety video on its investigation into the fatal combustible dust explosions and fires at the Didion Milling facility in Cambria, Wisconsin, that occurred on May…
Project CLEAN (Catalytic Low-temperature Efficiency for Advanced Decontamination), a four-year research project involving BlueAlp (Eindhoven, the Netherlands; www.bluealp.nl), Renewi plc (Milton Keynes, U.K.; www.renewi.com), Shell (London, U.K.; www.shell.com) and the University of Utrecht (Utrecht, the Netherlands; www.uu.nl), has been awarded…
This company has redesigned the mobile app for its DeltaV software-as-a-service (SaaS) supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) software to allow operators and technicians to do more in the field from their mobile devices. Operators and field technicians increasingly rely on…