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Emerson Solutions for Ammonia Production

Emerson Solutions for Ammonia Production
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Emerson Solutions for Ammonia Production Gain efficiency and enhance your operations Process Management

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2 | Ammonia Production Solutions “My process underperforms when equipment doesn’t work properly. Production and the bottom line suffer.” As an important nitrogen source for plants, Global population is expected to reach 8 billion by 2025. More food must be produced to feed us all. _ Source UN Study, 2013 80% of ammonia produced is utilized as fertilizer. What if . . . You could improve overall operations _ Source Ullmann’s Encyclopedia AMMONIA PRODUCTION IS PROJECTED TO INCREASE and eliminate inefficiencies? Equipment in your process only helped — and never hindered your production efforts?...

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Ammonia Production Solutions | 3 Improve Operational Efficiency Controlling energy efficiency is crucial to containing operating costs, but equipment problems and unplanned shutdowns can interfere. Poor control valve reliability or performance in your feed gas and steam ratio applications can undermine overall energy efficiency, while raising costs that you’re responsible for controlling. Using Fisher® control valve assemblies from Emerson, you’ll be able to avoid efficiency losses associated with unplanned shutdowns by selecting the right control valve the first time. In addition, by using...

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4 | Ammonia Production Solutions Improve Operational Efficiency + REDUCE PROCESS VARIABILITY Feed gas and steam ratio control valves must operate with minimal variability to ensure stable and predictable performance. Poor control reduces efficiency through the reformer. Reducing process variability is the key to improving process efficiency. A Fisher sliding-stem valve with rugged guiding provides high valve plug stability. Paired with the Fisher FIELDVUE™ digital valve controller, and a properly sized highly responsive actuator, your feed gas and steam ratio control valves can operate...

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Ammonia Production Solutions | 5 + DID YOU KNOW? Energy use is higher in plants with frequent outages, inefficient equipment, or poor catalyst activity. Along with inherent differences in plant design energy efficiencies, this accounts for the wide variations in the efficiency of energy use in different plants. + PINPOINT PROBLEMS Reliability is an essential requirement of control valves. Unexpected maintenance or surprise failures can stop production. Visual inspection of control valve assemblies is time consuming, may present safety concerns, and might not reveal hidden issues. FIELDVUE...

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6 | Ammonia Production Solutions Improve Production Using Proven Technology + GET MORE FROM YOUR ABSORBERS AND SEPARATORS P lenty of events can throw your production off course—and some of those are under your immediate control. Absorber or separator inefficiency hinders production efforts, while equipment failure can interrupt it entirely. High-vibration common to purification and recovery areas of the plant can be damaging to letdown level control valves to the point of impairing or stopping operations. If the improper valve type, trim style, and materials are selected, the likelihood...

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Ammonia Production Solutions | 7 + APPLICATION EXPERTISE E merson can help you instill reliability and resiliency into your process. With Fisher control valve solutions and a team of experts focused on your applications, you can consistently reach production targets. Customized severe service trim and material combinations help ensure dependable performance in letdown control valve applications to promote confidence in your process. Scan this code to read more about how we replicate your process conditions to ensure you’re getting the valve performance you require. “ y tapping into device B...

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8 | Ammonia Production Solutions Improve Production Using Proven Technology + COMBAT SEVERE PROCESS CONDITIONS avitation, flashing, and outgassing create challenging, C severe conditions for letdown control valves. High vibration associated with any of these conditions may cause significant damage to the letdown level control valve body and trim. Emerson engineers understand that the potential for damage is a function of many factors, which include flow rate, fluid velocity, pressure drop, body geometry, valve body and trim material. Selecting a control valve designed with special...

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Ammonia Production Solutions | 9 Control valve stem/shaft breakage is a common fatigue failure due to heavy vibrations within the system. Fisher valves can be fitted with specific trim designs using high strength materials to account for strenuous conditions. + CUSTOMIZED SOLUTIONS Working at your side, your local Emerson application experts can help you size and select the best Fisher technology for your letdown level control valve application. There are no force-fit solutions. Our expert recommendations are based on your specific challenges and our application expertise. The broad range...

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10 | Ammonia Production Solutions Achieve Your Highest Availability + REDUCE DOWNTIME OUTAGE EVELOPMENT D T oday, you’re required to do more with less. Decreasing your operating costs, increasing profit margins, and achieving high availability is becoming essential to you and everyone your process touches. Ensuring your assets remain operational is more important than ever before. In order to avoid—and sometimes manage the unavoidable—you need a supplier that understands what reliability really means to you. Fisher Lifecycle Services will guide you through our industry leading Outage...

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Ammonia Production Solutions | 11 + IMPROVE RELIABILITY E merson’s service teams will work with you to employ robust strategies and procedures related to what reliability means to you. After you’ve selected your critical equipment, they’ll install it and start-up your process safely and effectively with discipline so you can stay on schedule and within budget. Onsite specialists and reliability-based maintenance programs are offered to help enhance your process performance. Availability of emergency service support and certified OEM parts reduce your downtime and improve your reliability to...

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