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Innovations
telligent devices. The FC6A with MQTT
supports Amazon Web Services AWS IoT
Core today, with future support planned
for Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
Ammonia catalyst for
sustainable CO2
reduction
A sustainable, award-winning new
ammonia synthesis catalyst has been
jointly developed by Clariant and Casale:
AmoMax™-Casale. Thanks to significantly
higher activity than previous catalysts,
AmoMax-Casale makes ammonia production
more efficient and less polluting
than ever before.
Producing ammonia (NH3
more carbon dioxide (CO2
) creates
) emissions
than any other chemical synthesis process.
Clariant works to enhance its ammonia
synthesis catalysts, leading to step
changes like the industry proven AmoMax
10, which changed the game of ammonia
synthesis from magnetite-based to
wustite-based catalysts.
Born of Clariant's catalyst expertise
and Casale's ammonia converter design
know-how, AmoMax-Casale delivers
an up to 30% higher efficiency factor
thanks to a larger active surface area than
previous generations of AmoMax. This
performance surge significantly lowers
the energy consumption of an ammonia
plant, leading to a major reduction in
CO2
is emitted.
Standardized plan
for a wide range of
dual pressurized seal
applications
John Crane has launched its new
Global Standardized Plan 54 (GS 54), an
API Plan 54 support system designed to
fit a wide range of challenging, dual pressurized
seal applications.
The new GS 54 (FIG. 3) uses bestpractice
design to provide clean, cooled
and filtered barrier fluid, optimal seal
performance and pump up-time, and
supports API Plan 54 standards for leakage
prevention. In tough and technically
challenging processes where reliability
is a prerequisite, the API Plan 54 support
system provides a standard solution,
removing avoidable complexity
from the design and selection process.
Applicable for challenging applications
in the oil and gas, chemical, pharmaceutical
and other high-purity industries,
the support system's pre-engineered design
offers high reliability and expedited
customer delivery.
Designed with a focus on operational
emissions. Higher catalyst activity
means higher conversion, so the plant
will consume less energy for the recirculation
of the process gas in the reactor
loop. Again, less CO2
The combination of a higher active
catalyst with the Casale design of converter
internals makes the difference. A
typical ammonia plant producing 1,600
tpd can potentially save $300,000/yr on
energy costs and reduce CO2
emissions
by up to 85,000 t over the catalyst's average
lifetime of 15 yr. Furthermore, AmoMax-Casale
is capable of increasing ammonia
production capacity by up to 5%.
The catalyst has already proven its
performance in its first industrial reference
at an ammonia plant in the Americas.
The plant was upgraded to a Casale
3-bed interchanger using the AmoMaxCasale
catalyst in late 2019 and is already
reporting energy savings of 50,000 kcal/
MT, which translates to an expected annual
reduction of $700,000 in costs and
6.148 t in CO2
emissions.
efficiency and reliability, features of the
new booster include a streamlined design
to minimize footprint and obstruction, a
system reservoir that provides a nominal
volume of 30 gal (114 l) of barrier fluid,
a filter housing with 10-micron filter
elements, and a shell-and-tube, watercooled
designed heat exchanger.
Purging/pressurization
units
Best Purging Systems Corp. now
offers UL Listed NFPA 496 Type
Y&Z purging and pressurization units
(FIG. 4) for enclosures up to 250 ft3
Class I and II, Division 2, Group A, B, C
& D Hazardous Locations. These units
provide all required controls indicators
and alarms to meet code. Applications
include large refinery control panels,
special analyzers and portable laboratory
equipment.
The Type Y&Z Purging and Pressurization
solution meet/exceeds NEC
- NFPA 70, NFPA 496, EN 50016 and
IEC 60079-02 standards and is available
in universal, vertical and horizontal
configurations. The units can be easily
mounted to any side of a protected enclosure
and through a panel cutout.
FIG. 3. John Crane's new Global Standardized
Plan 54 (GS 54).
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Remote/mobile employee
access for oil and gas
and chemical industries
GE Digital has introduced Remote Operations
for the oil and gas and chemical
Industries, a software and appliance solution
that provides remote/mobile employee
access to essential equipment monitoring
and control functions. GE Digital
began offering Remote Operations earlier
in 2020 in the power generation industry
and already has many leading worldwide
industrial customers using the solution.
The oil and gas industry faces challenges
in providing safe and cost-effective
equipment monitoring, maintenance and
emergency response. At the refinery or
plant, the global pandemic and economic
pressures are triggering both oil and
gas and chemical companies to re-think
their strategies regarding contingency operations,
worker location flexibility and
onsite staffing. GE Digital Remote Operations
solution, proven in power generation,
addresses these and other challenges
faced by industrials.
Remote Operations provides remote
and mobile workers with secure and
managed access to equipment controls
regardless of type. NERC-CIP and ISA
99/62443 compliant security, multi-factor
authentication and operational safeguards
enable failsafe control flexibility and cooperation
across all staff, onsite and offsite.
FIG. 4. Best Purging Systems Corp.'s NFPA 496
Type Y&Z purging and pressurization units.
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