Wireless Plant

The process industries face increasing pressures to deliver consistently high quality products at competitive cost while adhering to stringent demands on worker safety, energy efficiency and environmental emissions.
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Plant Safety

Recent incidents such as the 2005 BP refinery disaster in Texas City, USA, in which 15 people were killed and scores seriously injured after overfilling of a tank led to a huge explosion, indicate that process safety remains a deadly serious business.
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Plant Intelligence

Sophisticated field devices generating valuable process data and new wireless devices allowing many more points to be measured are just two factors behind the ever increasing volumes of plant data.
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Asset Optimization

Make the most of what you have. That's always a good strategy, and even more so in these economically constrained times when the dollars to spend on new equipment are much harder to come by.
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Energy Efficiency

With the world's energy demands set to increase by 60 percent over the next 20 years, it is no surprise that there is an increasing focus on energy efficiency – how to produce the same amount of heat, light, motion...
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Knowledge Center: Energy Efficiency

With the world’s energy demands set to increase by 60 percent over the next 20 years, it is no surprise that there is an increasing focus on energy efficiency – how to produce the same amount of heat, light, motion, etc using less energy. And with industrial plants being major energy consumers – as well as prime generators of CO2 emissions – the cost savings and green credentials that can achieved through an effective energy efficiency program are well worth striving for.

Technology is a key enabler of these goals, and as detailed in this Energy Efficiency section of the Knowledge Center, automation and control solutions are increasingly being applied in today’s plants to reduce energy expenditure, meet environmental compliance regulations, and help deliver a greener tomorrow.

Energy Efficiency

Improving Energy Efficiency of Brownfield Plants

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. More >

First Steps Toward Greater Efficiency

As an engineer, you’re faced with countless areas to target with the goal of gaining greater efficiencies. More >

Energy as a Process Variable

Industrial energy consumption is becoming a larger issue every day, and it should be. More >

Energy Enlightened

The developing economies of Asia have been recognized for their manufacturing prowess but less so for adoption of sustainable, efficient practices. More >