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  • Pressure Blog: Statistical Process Monitoring on Any Host System

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    One of the strategies I recommend to improve process reliability is the use of product tiers.  Manufacturers of instruments have various tiers which should be applied with a specifically defined strategy.  I have presented these tiers as premium, core...

  • Pressure Blog: Join us in Celebrating 10 Years of the Rosemount 3051S Pressure Transmitter

    James Schmidt
    Come and visit the Rosemount booth at the 2011 Emerson Global Users Exchange Annual Conference . Monday, October 24, 2011 - 5:00 pm Customer Award Presentation and cake to be served. Click here to view the electronic invite

  • Level Blog: New handbook for level engineers

    Peta Glenister
    It's what you have all been waiting for! Our new handbook "The Engineer's Guide to Level Measurement" is now available! It is designed to support engineers applying level measurement to projects in the process industries. Request your copy by emailing: [email protected]

  • Level Blog: Measuring Low Dielectric Products with Guided Wave Radar

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    Radar level measurement is considered the “best practice” technology within a process plant.  However, there are still a number of challenges with it.  Foam, agitation and condensing liquids are not the easiest to measure.  As a result of improved radar...

  • Flow Blog: Download latest software and firmware for Daniel ultrasonic flow meters

    Gerard H
    Usability of the documentation page at www.Daniel.com has been significantly enhanced in response to customer feedback - datasheets and collateral can now be seen on a single page. In addition, it is now possible to download the latest ultrasonic diagnostics software, meter firmware and modbus tables after registration. This means that we will be able to let you know when future releases become available.

  • Temperature Blog: High Density Temperature Measurement on Reactors

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    High density temperature transmitters have many applications in process plants.  These are commonly found on distillation columns to monitor the temperature profile.  The advantage is that multiple temperature measurements can be achieved through one...

  • Level Blog: Keeping Your Stilling Well Clean

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    Guided Wave Radar (GWR) and non-contact radar is the most common technology for new level measurement applications.  While it has a number of advantages over other level technology a low dielectric product, foam and excessive agitation can present a ...

  • Level Blog: Guidance for Radar Level Measurement Applications

    Jim Cahill
    Recently we've had a few level measurement-related posts--one on a refinery desalter vessel application and another on guided wave radar setup, calibration, and diagnostics . To continue on this theme, I've discovered an article, Determining the level best in radar measurement , on the U.K.-based ConnectingIndustry.com website. Emerson's Sarah Parker highlights contacting and non-contacting radar level measurement application…

  • Level Blog: Transient Protection for Instrumentation

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    Transient protection is one of the biggest challenges to instrumentation.  Lightning strikes, power surges and even static dissipation can cause significant damage to an instrument.  This is especially true for instruments that are outside and in remote...

  • Pressure Blog: Transient Protection for Instrumentation

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    Transient protection is one of the biggest challenges to instrumentation.  Lightning strikes, power surges and even static dissipation can cause significant damage to an instrument.  This is especially true for instruments that are outside and in remote...

  • Level Blog: Level Measurement for Control and Alarm

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    A properly instrumented vessel will include a level measurement for both control and alarm notification.  This minimally requires a continuous level measurement of the process fluid.   Differential pressure (DP), radar and nuclear are all great technologies...

  • Level Blog: Measuring Raw Materials for Chemical Reactions

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    The chemical reactions are the most critical processes in a chemical plant.  Reagents, catalysts and feedstocks are combined in chemical reaction vessels to produce other more valuable chemicals.  Sometimes these are finished products.  Other times these...

  • Flow Blog: Measuring Raw Materials for Chemical Reactions

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    The chemical reactions are the most critical processes in a chemical plant.  Reagents, catalysts and feedstocks are combined in chemical reaction vessels to produce other more valuable chemicals.  Sometimes these are finished products.  Other times these...

  • Flow Blog: Developing a Reliable Instrument Specification

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    A client of mine recently asked me what information was needed to create an instrument specification for a project.  Naturally, this was the start of a fairly in-depth conversation.  Overall, an instrument specification needs to be specific enough to...

  • Level Blog: Tank Storage Wireless Level Measurement and Overspill Protection

    Jim Cahill
    Imagine being an operator for a Swedish tank storage facility aside the Baltic Sea and having to manually measure tank levels in the dead of winter. That’s exactly what operators at FH Tank Storage AB have had to do at the Kalmar storage terminal in a...

  • Flow Blog: Industrial Gas Flow Using Wireless Technology

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    Industrial gas is used in many applications in a process plant.  Nitrogen is used for tank blanketing or to eliminate oxygen in a combustible environment.  Oxygen can be used in a process reaction or in waste water treatment to eliminate organic compounds...

  • Flow Blog: Thermowell Wake Frequency Calculation

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    The first wake frequency calculation standard was published by AMSE is 1974 and was based on a paper written by J.W. Murdock in the 1950s.  This is the ASME PTC 19.3-1974 standard.  However, it did not account for all installations.  The Monju Fast Breeder...

  • Temperature Blog: Thermowell Wake Frequency Calculation

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    The first wake frequency calculation standard was published by AMSE is 1974 and was based on a paper written by J.W. Murdock in the 1950s.  This is the ASME PTC 19.3-1974 standard.  However, it did not account for all installations.  The Monju Fast Breeder...

  • Level Blog: Avoiding Shutdowns with Accurate Level Measurement

    Jim Cahill
    For plants and mills that use steam in the production process, measuring the steam condensate level accurately can be the difference between operating reliably and fighting unplanned shutdowns. So was the case for a U.S. ethanol producer, Absolute Energy...

  • Level Blog: Nuclear Level Measurement

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    Level measurement is often times the most challenging measurement in a process plant.  There are many technologies that can be used, including differential pressure (DP), capacitance, ultrasonic and radar .  Each of these technologies can be used in many...

  • Pressure Blog: Improving Pump Reliability

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    Pump reliability is one of the biggest rotating equipment challenges in a process plant.  There are literally hundreds of pumps to monitor and maintain.  There are three strategies which can be implemented to improve punp reliability, which will be explored...

  • Flow Blog: Advanced Diagnostics and Averaging Pitot Tubes

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    Advanced diagnostics is the name given to a class of transmitters that provide additional information about the condition of itself and the process.  In addition to internal electronics problems, advance diagnostics can alert you to power supply issues...

  • Level Blog: Level Measurement with Foam

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    Level measurement is often the most challenging measurement in a process plant.  Until ultrasonic and radar technology were introduced, level measurement was done with some type of contact technology.  Among these are differential pressure (DP), capacitance...

  • Flow Blog: Differential Pressure versus Vortex Flowmeters

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    There are many kinds of flowmeters that can be used for steam and gas applications.  These range from basic variable area (rotameter) and turbine flowmeters, to more advanced differential pressure (DP) and vortex flowmeters.  While these are all good...

  • Flow Blog: Upgrading to Advanced Boiler Control

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    Pretty much every process plant has a boiler for the generation of steam.  Steam is a commodity that is widely used around a process plant for many different applications.  These include heating, steam jacketing, steam tracing, power generation ( turbomachinery...

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