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Honeywell and Wood to collaborate on Connected Plant technologies in refining and petrochemicals markets

Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) and Wood (www.woodplc.com) will work together through the Honeywell Connected Plant platform to commercialize digital services that help refiners and petrochemical manufacturers make their operations safer, more efficient and more reliable. Honeywell UOP has partnered with…

Solvay invests in AI software developer Noble.AI

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has invested in Noble.AI, a leading developer of software that helps R&D organizations speed up their innovation efforts. Noble’s software, which incorporates physics-based principles into an artificial intelligence engine, will enable Solvay to accelerate its…

Nokia joins Pöyry and Infosys on industrial artificial intelligence offering

Nokia (Espoo, Finland; www.nokia.com) announced that it will partner with Pöyry PLC (Helsinki, Finland; www.poyry.com), an international consulting and engineering company, and Infosys (Bengaluru, India; www.infosys.com), a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting, to further enhance and accelerate…

Sabic and hte extend partnership focused on digitalization and high-throughput technologies

The Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC; Riyadh; www.sabic.com) and hte GmbH (Heidelberg, Germany; www.hte-company.com) have extended plans for collaboration for five more years to increase efficiency through digitalization and high throughput technologies in catalysis research and development (R&D) in petrochemicals.Dr.…

Emerson signs $12-million automation contract with Indian Oil

Emerson (St. Louis, Mo.; www.emerson.com) announced it has signed multiple contracts totaling $12 million with India’s largest commercial oil company, Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL), to modernize operations and emissions programs at the company’s refineries. Under the contracts, Emerson will…

BASF opens digitalization-focused facility in Madrid

In February 2019, BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) founded the new company BASF Digital Solutions S.L. located in Madrid, Spain to drive forward the digital transformation of BASF group and develop innovative IT solutions. BASF plans to grow the center…

Haldor Topsoe and Honeywell announce technology alliance

Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) and Honeywell (Charlotte, N.C.; www.honeywell.com) announced a technology alliance to expand the benefits of connected services to a broader range of the chemical and refining industries. As a product of this alliance, Topsoe has…

Game Changers

The technologies associated with the Industrial Internet of Things, and the benefits that can be attained from them, are topics that are frequently described in the pages of Chemical Engineering. Finding and implementing the best new technologies for an application…

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Using Corrosion as a Process Variable

Monitoring and analyzing historical corrosion data can provide insights not available from manual inspection and measurement techniques Some petroleum refiners looking for ways to improve profitability have lately turned to buying opportunity crudes from secondary sources. These crudes, while priced…

Understanding the Digital Twin

Clarity about the requirements for digital twin technology is essential for any organization’s digital transformation As manufacturers in the chemical process industries (CPI) begin the digital transformation process for their plants and assets, the need for technology to support this…