The refining industry is facing increased pressures,such as crude oil supply changes,changing product distributions and increasing regulations.These pressure points create a highly competitive market where refiners are looking for options that include digitally transforming operations and adapting new technologies to enhance safety and improve uptime,flexibility and efficiency,while securing their competitive position in a dynamic market.Improving personnel and process safety remains a top focus area for refiners.While many factors are evaluated when improving safety in refineries,selecting the right flow measurement technology can be an overlooked factor,despite the multiple benefits that a single-flow device can deliver beyond process control.Traditionally,refineries would select cost-effective flow measurement technologies to ensure measurement repeatability,primarily for process control purposes.In certain applications,refiners are now realizing the benefits of having more than just repeatability in a flow measurement device.Attributes found in newer flow technologies-such as accuracy,inline meter health verification and integral design-have proven beneficial to enable refineries to optimize processes,ensure environmental compliance and improve process safety,while ensuring reliable and repeatable measurements for process control.These newer technologies include Coriolis meters,vortex meters and density meters.
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