|What does sustainability mean for the process industries and how do we achieve it? Is it saving energy? Rethinking the use of raw materials? Optimizing our processes? How do you measure sustainability? In this page you will find, white papers, articles, podcast and other links that can help you define and understand sustainability for the process industries.|
Reducing the carbon footprint brought on by plant inefficiencies and population growth and over-consumption, with the goals of reducing plant costs, achieving energy efficiency and security, and abating greenhouse gases (GHGs) -- of which carbon dioxide (CO2) is the main culprit -- are the challenges faced by today's leading industrial producers. This paper will explore effective ways to produce energy more cost effectively, purchase energy more economically and reduce overall energy usage, contributing to significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
Often referred to as electrical integration, integrated process and power automation is a new system integration architecture and power strategy that addresses the needs of the process and power generation industries. This paper discusses how a single integrated system can increase energy efficiency; improve plant uptime and lower life cycle costs.
The global trends and challenges driving the need for industry to improve energy efficiency are well known. The growing population and economic development in many countries throughout the world has caused energy and transportation fuel consumption to increase. Refineries around the world are increasing capacity to meet these needs. Higher oil and gas prices, especially over the past two years, have greatly increased energy related operating costs and emphasized the need to increase energy efficiency. Today's refineries face many challenges. However, technology driven solutions now exists that can address these challenges and help achieve energy optimization. Honeywell's experience has shown that 12-25% energy reduction is achievable by implementing a comprehensive management solution with attractive returns on capital investment. A significant portion of the energy efficiency results and reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions within a refinery/petrochemical complex can be achieved through improvements to plant processes. This article identifies the major process improvement opportunities and proposes a novel work process methodology to achieve them.
In a previous white paper, "The First Step" we provided an overview of three methods to improve energy efficiency and reduce CO2 emissions in refineries and petrochemical plants:
This whitepaper will outline low-cost operational improvements that use process condition and control improvements to unlock hidden energy saving opportunities.
Industry professionals have been trying to achieve safe, smart, responsible, sustainable manufacturing for at least the past 20 years, but why have they failed?
There are serious challenges to overcome in order to achieve smart manufacturing. Some of the challenges include economic instability, changing workforce, the need for greater than incremental increases in productivity, pressures to minimize environmental impacts and an increased focus on safety and risks of accident.
Is your company's electrical energy usage important to you? Whether still feeling the results of the recession or looking forward to competing as the global...
This paper discusses how portable data logging technology can be used to measure, record, and document the performance of geothermal heat pumps, and provides specific case study examples of how the technology is being applied in geothermal system monitoring applications.
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The Obama administration has begun a number of new initiatives around energy sustainability that seem aimed directly at manufacturers. Walt Boyes talks with John Nesi and Angel Sustaeta of Rockwell Automation about the implication of these initiatives for process manufacturing operations.
Green engineering is the use of advanced measurement and control techniques to design, develop, and improve products and technologies resulting in environmental and economic benefits.
On this site you will find technical articles, white papers, webcasts, and other resources to increase your knowledge of green engineering and applications that are being developed and deployed with the NI graphical system design.