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  • Flow Blog: Formation Kicks and Wellbore Ballooning in Oil and Gas Wells

    Jim Cahill
    Controlling the oil and gas drilling process is about managing the pressure and fluids from the reservoir with the hydrostatic pressure in the drilling mud. From Wikipedia’s well drilling entry: Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD) is defined by the International...

  • Flow Blog: Controlling Combustion of Hydrogen Fuel Mixtures

    Jim Cahill
    Hydrogen is a great, clean-burning fuel source. Just look at its combustion equation: 2H2 + O2 -> 2H2O + Heat Water and heat are created from the combustion of hydrogen and oxygen. I mention all this because Emerson’s Andrew Verdouw had the opportunity...

  • Flow Blog: Measuring Liquefied Natural Gas

    Jim Cahill
    The autumn season ramps up with several process automation and industry conferences, including our September 30-October 4 Emerson Exchange event to be held in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas area. I received word of another conference, the Metrology for...

  • Level Blog: How to install the new Rosemount 3308 wireless guided wave radar

    Peta Glenister
    Our new video demonstrates how easy it is to install the new Rosemount 3308 wireless guided wave radar. It will also make you smile :) See the video here http://bit.ly/10MqiHi www.youtube.com/watch

  • Temperature Blog: RTD and Thermocouple Selection Considerations

    Jim Cahill
    Instrumentation professionals have many choices in technology when it comes to measuring pressure, temperature, level, and flow. Over time, experience teaches which technologies work best for which applications. For those new to the instrumentation and...

  • Temperature Blog: RTD and Thermocouple Selection Considerations

    Jim Cahill
    Instrumentation professionals have many choices in technology when it comes to measuring pressure, temperature, level, and flow. Over time, experience teaches which technologies work best for which applications. For those new to the instrumentation and process control world, the choices can seem overwhelming. From a temperature measurement view, Emerson’s Ashleigh Hayes has a great article on the Control Engineering…

  • Temperature Blog: RTD and Thermocouple Selection Considerations

    Jim Cahill
    Instrumentation professionals have many choices in technology when it comes to measuring pressure, temperature, level, and flow. Over time, experience teaches which technologies work best for which applications. For those new to the instrumentation and process control world, the choices can seem overwhelming. From a temperature measurement view, Emerson’s Ashleigh Hayes has a great article on the Control Engineering…

  • Level Blog: How SIOT Upgraded Its Tank-Level Measurement Inexpensively Without Sacrificing Safely

    Jim Cahill
    Here’s another guest post by me, Chris Womack. Custody transfer today’s topic—specifically, improving level and temperature measurement of crude oil for custody transfer, while minimizing cost and disturbances to current operations. Even more specifically...

  • Tank Gauging Blog: How SIOT Upgraded Its Tank-Level Measurement Inexpensively Without Sacrificing Function

    Jim Cahill
    Here’s another guest post by me, Chris Womack . Custody transfer is today’s topic—specifically, improving level and temperature measurement of crude oil for custody transfer, while minimizing cost and disturbances to current operations. SIOT Terminal Facility near Trieste, Italy Even more specifically, when Italy’s SIOT (Società Italiana per l’Oleodotto Transalpino S.p.A.) sought to update the aging radar-based level…

  • Level Blog: The world's first true wireless guided wave radar has arrived!

    Peta Glenister
    The Rosemount 3308 WirelessHART level and interface transmitter enables easy automation of level and interface measurements in locations previously inaccessible or too costly. More info here: http://bit.ly/3308gwr

  • Flow Blog: Coriolis Innovations at Chemspec Europe 2013

    Jim Cahill
    Hello again—Chris Womack here with another guest post. The specialty-chemical industry’s big European convention, Chemspec Europe 2013, features an Emerson exhibit for the first time this year. The meeting is going on right this minute in scenic Munich...

  • Tank Gauging Blog: Onshore LNG Tank Gauging Measurement and Management

    Jim Cahill
    As the supply of natural gas continues to swell in parts of the world, the economics to transport this gas to lower supply areas is driving the project planning for liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities. One only has to do Google News search on LNG to see all the activity going on. Storing the LNG ...

  • Flow Blog: Annubar Averaging Pitot Tube Flow Measurement Advancements

    Jim Cahill
    The ways to measure gas and liquid flow are numerous. In prior posts, we’ve highlighted Annubar technology, which is similar to pitot tube technology. From Wikipedia: The biggest difference between an annubar and a pitot tube is that an annubar takes...

  • Flow Blog: European MID Directive for Custody Transfer Measurement Webinar

    Jim Cahill
    The European Measuring Instruments Directive (MID) for Custody Transfer Measuring Instruments applies in all 27 EU-countries (plus Norway and Switzerland). This directive becomes mandatory by October of 2016 for new installations and includes 10 different...

  • Analytical Experts Blog: Managing Analyzers, Transmitters, and Control Valves with a Common Approach

    Jim Cahill
    In an earlier post, Measuring Hydrocarbon Dew Point with Gas Chromatographs, we highlighted the challenges with liquids in natural gas. Emerson’s Jonas Berge added a comment [hyperlinks added]: The 700XA gas chromatograph can be integrated into intelligent...

  • Analytical Experts Blog: Managing Analyzers, Transmitters, and Control Valves with a Common Approach

    Jim Cahill
    In an earlier post, Measuring Hydrocarbon Dew Point with Gas Chromatographs , we highlighted the challenges with liquids in natural gas. Emerson’s Jonas Berge added a comment [hyperlinks added]: The 700XA gas chromatograph can be integrated into intelligent device management (IDM) software part of the asset management software and be managed just like pressure and temperature as well as other analyzers, control valves…

  • Level Blog: Detecting Floating Roof Tilt

    Jim Cahill
    In an earlier post, Avoiding Dangerous Conditions through Tank Floating Roof Level Monitoring, we highlighted how technology can assist in providing early warning for abnormal situations such as roof tilt in tank farms. I received an email question: ...

  • Tank Gauging Blog: Detecting Floating Roof Tilt

    Jim Cahill
    In an earlier post, Avoiding Dangerous Conditions through Tank Floating Roof Level Monitoring, we highlighted how technology can assist in providing early warning for abnormal situations such as roof tilt in tank farms. I received an email question: …so when the roof moves, the radar moves with it. How...

  • Flow Blog: Coriolis Meter and Meter Verification Educational Video

    Jim Cahill
    Coriolis mass flow and density measurement is used in a multitude of applications such as custody transfer, dirty/wet gas, cryogenic, critical phase fluids, sanitary, corrosive liquids, and more. Emerson’s Micro Motion team has put together and excellent...

  • Pressure Blog: Detecting Fired Heater Flame Loss

    Jim Cahill
    The AIChE 2013 Spring Meeting and 9th Global Congress on Process Safety is taking place this week down the road from me in San Antonio, Texas. I just heard the news from Emerson’s Tim Olsen, Chair of the AIChE Fuels & Petrochemicals Division, that a paper...

  • Pressure Blog: Detecting Fired Heater Flame Loss

    Jim Cahill
    The AIChE 2013 Spring Meeting and 9th Global Congress on Process Safety is taking place this week down the road from me in San Antonio, Texas. I just heard the news from Emerson’s Tim Olsen , Chair of the AIChE Fuels & Petrochemicals Division , that a paper on detecting fired heater flame loss won best paper in its track. The paper, Detecting Loss of Flame in Oil Refinery Fired Heaters Using Advanced Pressure Diagnostics…

  • Pressure Blog: Detecting Fired Heater Flame Loss

    Jim Cahill
    The AIChE 2013 Spring Meeting and 9th Global Congress on Process Safety is taking place this week down the road from me in San Antonio, Texas. I just heard the news from Emerson’s Tim Olsen , Chair of the AIChE Fuels & Petrochemicals Division , that a paper on detecting fired heater flame loss won best paper in its track. The paper, Detecting Loss of Flame in Oil Refinery Fired Heaters Using Advanced Pressure Diagnostics…

  • Pressure Blog: Detecting Fired Heater Flame Loss

    Jim Cahill
    The AIChE 2013 Spring Meeting and 9th Global Congress on Process Safety is taking place this week down the road from me in San Antonio, Texas. I just heard the news from Emerson’s Tim Olsen , Chair of the AIChE Fuels & Petrochemicals Division , that a paper on detecting fired heater flame loss won best paper in its track. The paper, Detecting Loss of Flame in Oil Refinery Fired Heaters Using Advanced Pressure Diagnostics…

  • Pressure Blog: Detecting Fired Heater Flame Loss

    Jim Cahill
    The AIChE 2013 Spring Meeting and 9th Global Congress on Process Safety is taking place this week down the road from me in San Antonio, Texas. I just heard the news from Emerson’s Tim Olsen , Chair of the AIChE Fuels & Petrochemicals Division , that a paper on detecting fired heater flame loss won best paper in its track. The paper, Detecting Loss of Flame in Oil Refinery Fired Heaters Using Advanced Pressure Diagnostics…

  • Flow Blog: Installing an Annubar Averaging Pitot Tube Flowmeter

    Jim Cahill
    It’s been a week of travel, so we’ll close it with a video from Emerson’s Rosemount measurement team on how to install an Annubar averaging pitot tube flowmeter. The Youtube video shows the installation process for a Rosemount 485 Pak-Lok flowmeter. This...

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