To achieve operational excellence, process manufacturers must quickly and systematically address the root causes of asset reliability problems, which include inadequate operating procedures, poor design, and improper scheduling of production.

After an electrical storm stopped gas production at one of its plants, SABIC executives and reliability engineers turned to Aspen Fidelis Reliability to calculate the probability of it—or a similarly debilitating event—happening again. Read this article from Plant Services to learn more.

Sustainability is emerging as a critical business topic, as companies focus resources toward lowering emissions, waste and energy use in their production process. In this article, Paige Morse, Chemicals Industry Marketing Director, shares how sustainability affects four key areas within a processing plant and how digital transformation supports sustainability efforts through efficiency improvements.

See how refineries can keep their profit margins high by maintaining their planning models up to date, in the face of changing operating conditions, using capabilities built in Aspen HYSYS.

Aspen HYSYS has several options available for modeling pipes and pipelines. Use these approaches, correlations and analysis tools in Aspen HYSYS to solve problems around pipe flow hydraulics and optimize flow and uptime. This Top 8 Questions document recommends best practices from our technical experts.

This valuable resource provides additional insights from our technical experts on how users can use historical plant data to maximize model accuracy.

BLOWDOWN Technology is available in Aspen HYSYS V9 and above. The tool’s rigorous calculations and intuitive workflows can help you save CAPEX in greenfield and revalidation projects — with fewer engineering hours. This Q&A will give you a better understanding of this helpful depressurization tool.

Shell Oil Company is a global energy and petrochemicals company that produces natural gas, gasoline, oil, and many bulk and specialty chemical products for customers worldwide. Read this case study to learn how Shell’s Manufacturing Margin Optimization team uses AspenTech solutions and AWS Cloud to optimize its energy and petrochemicals business, including planning and scheduling applications.

Efficient heat exchanger (HX) operation is critical for plants to improve energy efficiency and meet sustainability goals. Lack of visibility into the fouling levels of HX units and the inability to predict future fouling levels are major challenges while scheduling maintenance work. Although rigorous process modeling can give insights to current fouling levels, prediction of future fouling levels has been difficult.

The hydrogen economy continues to be top of mind for energy and chemical companies, but what’s the best end-to-end approach? What are the risks and the opportunities as industry leaders invest in sustainability initiatives. In this on-demand webinar experts discuss digital, system-wide risk modeling that provides valuable insights into green and blue hydrogen, carbon capture, renewable power sources, transport and storage of hydrogen, the overall impact on the value chain and more.