Enhanced unit monitoring enabled by digital twin

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Enhanced unit monitoring enabled by digital twin

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Sep 22, 2021

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This podcast details how process digital twins can help monitor and improve KPIs on processing units, as well as provides the use of a process digital twin to optimize performance of Saudi Aramco's Ras Tanura refinery's hydrocracking unit. For comments or feedback, please contact: podcast@hydrocarbonprocessing.comCopyright ©Gulf Energy Information 2021

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Sep 22, 2021

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