Advanced Solutions to Boost Productivity and Quality
Optimize your refinery's production, boost profitability, and keep your people and the environment safe.
The downstream refining process is a mission-critical segment of the global oil, gas, and chemical industry, responsible for converting raw hydrocarbons into high-value products. At its core, oil refining transforms crude oil and natural gas into essential outputs such as gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and petrochemical feedstocks used in plastics, chemicals, and manufacturing. For executives and refinery operators, understanding the end-to-end refining workflow—from distillation and conversion to blending and distribution—is key to optimizing refinery efficiency, maximizing product yield, reducing operational costs, and ensuring environmental compliance. In today’s competitive and highly regulated market, leveraging advanced technologies and digital optimization is critical to maintaining profitability, sustainability, and operational resilience in modern refineries.
Optimize to Maximize Conversion and Yield
Enhance throughput, stability, and energy efficiency across your primary distillation and chemical conversion units.
Alkylation
Use advanced analytics and predictive monitoring to detect alkylation unit issues before they escalate into safety, environmental, or operational failures.
DeltaV™ Distributed Control System
Transform refinery and plant operations with the DeltaV™ distributed control system—an easy-to-use, future-ready automation platform designed to improve performance, reduce project risk, and lower lifecycle costs.
SmartProcess™ Distillation
SmartProcess Distillation is a pre-engineered, modular solution for model predictive control (MPC) of distillation columns using DeltaV's embedded advanced process control (APC) technologies.
Micro Motion™ Coriolis Mass Flowmeter
Coriolis flow meters operate on motion mechanics: as fluid flows through a vibrating tube, it accelerates toward peak amplitude and decelerates away from it, creating a twisting effect. This twist, measured during each vibration cycle, directly correlates to mass flow rate.
Advanced Automation to Drive Equipment Reliability and Safety
Mitigate unplanned downtime, optimize fuel consumption, and ensure secure storage with real-time asset monitoring.
Air Cooled Heat Exchangers
Engineered for fast, fail-safe isolation of critical process segments to protect personnel and equipment in refinery operations.
Plantweb™ Health Advisor for Air Cooled Heat Exchangers
Plantweb Health Advisor is a preconfigured application that continuously analyzes both process and asset health data to provide an overall asset health rating (0-100%).
Emerson Wireless 1410 Gateway
Specifically engineered to meet smaller network requirements of remote operations, the Emerson™ Wireless 1410 Gateway also maintains exceptional security and flexibility.
Rosemount™ 848T Wireless Temperature Transmitter
Rosemount 848T Wireless Temperature Transmitter is the premier choice for high density measurements via a WirelessHART® device. This transmitter accepts up to four independently configurable inputs, dramatically reducing your installation and operational costs per point through the use of a smart, reliable and secure wireless network.
Solution-Related Documents
Optimize Performance Across Refining & Petrochemical Operations
Access white papers, flyers, and expert articles designed to support refining and petrochemical operations. Explore insights and technologies that help improve efficiency, enhance reliability, optimize production, and support safer, more sustainable operations.
Business Groups in Refining
Refining success requires the integration of multiple disciplines. Our business groups bring specialized expertise to provide automation, control, measurement, and testing solutions that collectively enhance refinery performance and safety.
Automation Systems
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Explore essential information about refining operations, process safety, instrumentation, and control technologies. These FAQs address typical concerns and help clarify key concepts related to downstream hydrocarbon processing.
Refineries must manage safety risks, optimize throughput, maintain equipment reliability, and comply with stringent environmental regulations.
Process safety systems prevent accidents, reduce unplanned downtime, and protect people and assets, enabling smoother, more reliable operations.
Emergency shutdown valves (ESD Valves™), control systems, and safety instrumented systems (SIS) work together to safely isolate process segments in emergency situations.
SIS are engineered control systems designed to prevent hazardous events by automatically taking corrective actions when abnormal conditions are detected.
Digital tools enable data-driven decision making, predictive maintenance, and enhanced process optimization, improving operational resilience.
Automation systems provide real-time control, predictive analytics, and integration across refinery units to enhance efficiency and safety.