The oil and gas production explosion is driving the renaissance of the chemical and process industries in North America. With low-cost natural gas comes low-cost feedstock for many chemical compounds, ...

Mexico’s Federal Electrical Commission needed a safe way to train new operators at its Laguna Verde Nuclear Power Plant in Veracruz, so it developed a stand-alone process simulator that allows ...

Schneider Electric released SimSci SimCentral for Process Utilities, a process simulator built from the ground up to take advantage of modern web and cloud technologies. Simulation tools in process ...

Dominion’s 1,346-MW Warren County Generating Station in Virginia uses a 3-on-1 configuration with Mitsubishis Hitachi Power Systems America 501GAC combustion turbines. High-efficiency, combined-cycle, ...

Experience in 2008 with various marketed process simulators modeling Suncor’s Simonette gas plant showed that predicted results differed widely from actual operating conditions. Choosing an amine ...

DuPont is a big proponent of the digital twin, wherein all the elements and dynamics of physical plant assets can be replicated in software for process assessment and optimization and operator ...

The future of chemistry is in the hands of technology. With the help of emerging technologies, scientists can perform unprecedented feats of discovery and innovation. One such technology is called ...