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Event Highlights & Feature Sessions

  • New valve actuators address both ends of torque spectrum

    Emerson Exchange News
    By Jim Montague After six decades of developing on/off valve automation solutions, it might seem logical for Emerson Process Management to pause and take a well-deserved breather. But anyone who thinks that doesn't know how this company works. Just like the changing seasons and national holidays that are forever rolling around, Emerson ceaselessly investigates new ways to make its on/off valves and supporting technologies…

  • Help make your next Emerson product easier to use

    Emerson Exchange News
    Have you ever wished an Emerson product was just a bit faster to set up, more intuitive to use? This week at Exchange you have your chance to see that the next generation of Emerson technology is just that. Emerson's Human-Centered Design Institute is hosting a Usability Lab in Exhibit Hall C (next door to the Technology Exhibits), where Exchange attendees can get an early look at products currently under development…

  • Electric level loop solution helps cut costs and VOC emissions

    Emerson Exchange News
    by Leslie Gordon Does your facility comply with the EPA's new Quad O standard? Among the many innovations presented at this year's Emerson Exchange was the Fisher Electric Level Loop Solution for the oil & gas industry. The technology is important because it replaces traditional pneumatic equipment, thereby helping users more easily adhere to New Source Performance Standards Subpart OOOO (Quad O) requirements, according…

  • Collaboration creates automation roadmap for Santos LNG

    Emerson Exchange News
    by Leslie Gordon Santos, the largest onshore producer of conventional oil and gas in Australia, is undergoing a $16 million project to boost production in its Cooper Basin LNG processing site to better supply the company's Moomba facility in Queensland. At this year's Emerson Exchange, Mike Ilgen, senior director industry solutions - Asia Pacific for Emerson Process Management, and Jon Weidenbaum, automation consultant…

  • Fast loop response pays off for HMC Polymers

    Emerson Exchange News
    By Paul Studebaker HMC Polymers' propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant is sited on the eastern seaboard of Thailand in Rayong, a city 200 km southeast of Bangkok. The plant began construction in 2007 and started commercial operation early in 2011. “It produces propylene from propane through a licensed dehydrogenation technology, which enables the production of high quality polymer-grade propylene,” said Anucha Pudkhunthod…

  • Making money while reducing emissions with low-bleed pneumatics

    Emerson Exchange News
    The design of most pneumatic devices found in oil and gas fields today hasn’t changed much over the last forty years. Back in the 1970s, drillers saw natural gas in an oil well as a nuisance rather than a commodity, and environmental regulation was all but nonexistent. Gas that was used to power pneumatic field equipment was simply vented into the atmosphere in large quantities. In recent years, however, with the rise…

  • Easy-to-use solution for virtualized control systems

    Emerson Exchange News
    Attendees at the Emerson Global Users Exchange got a preview of the new DeltaV Virtual Studio v2.3, which expands the virtualization capabilities in the DeltaV distributed control system (DCS) for easy implementation and management of on-line production and off-line development, test and training systems. While many large manufacturing companies have used virtualization for years in their IT departments, DeltaV Virtual…

  • What you need to know about the new API 2350 tank overfill standard

    Emerson Exchange News
    Cups running over are an expression of abundance and gratitude. Oil and chemical tanks overfilling are not. In fact, overfilling is a chronic and dangerous problem in many process industries, but thankfully some new and powerful help is on the way. The fourth edition of the American Petroleum Institute's API2350 Atmospheric Tank Storage Overfill Standard (www.api-2350.com) was released in 2012, and it's giving tank…

  • A novel approach to in-situ regulatory meter verification

    Emerson Exchange News
    Suncor Energy’s Firebag oil sands facility in northern Alberta, Canada, produces an average of 172,400 barrels of raw bitumen per day. The in-situ recovery process used at the site injects highly pressurized steam into horizontal wells to heat the oil sands ore below ground, allowing bitumen to flow into secondary wells deeper in the reservoir. From there it’s pumped to the surface and piped to upgrading facilities several…

  • Emerson enables wireless PID control, donates algorithm to industry

    Emerson Exchange News
    by Leslie Gordon The proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control algorithm has long been a mainstay of process control. But its underlying mathematics didn't make a smooth transition to the world of wireless and the often infrequent measurement update rates used to conserve battery power. Emerson Process Management's PIDPlus algorithm was developed to overcome these limitations, and the underlying intellectual property…

  • Merck streamlines security with enterprise account integration

    Emerson Exchange News
    Managing multiple passwords is a familiar dilemma for many people these days. But for systems engineers working behind the scenes, meeting all the requirements to balance access with security is critical, especially when multiple systems and thousands of accounts are involved. To make things easier for end users and IT administrators alike, Merck found a way to authenticate access to its enterprise network, plus the…

  • Vopak Gains Terminal Efficiency with Tank Gauge Automation

    Emerson Exchange News
    In 2009, Vopak’s Deer Park, Texas, facility—one of the largest petroleum and chemical terminals in North America—decided to modernize. Tank radar gauges and overfill protection were key components of the project. Having made substantial progress, Vopak will present their results at the 2014 Emerson Global Users Exchange in Orlando, Florida. With 242 tanks, 5 ship docks, 14 barge positions, 22 truck loading stations…

  • Eastman Installs Network Redundancy in 30 Minutes

    Emerson Exchange News
    Eastman Chemical Company has a long history of developing solutions. But according to the results of a project to be presented at the 2014 Emerson Global Users Exchange in Orlando, Florida, network upgrades also can be solved with the right blend of elements. Andy Liptock, principal analyst at Eastman in West Elizabeth, Pennsylvania, will explain on Tuesday how his team completed a mission-critical network cutover…

  • URS Partners with Emerson, LBP for Turnkey HIPPS Solution

    Emerson Exchange News
    Among the many innovative projects to be presented at this year’s Emerson Exchange is Denver-based URS Corp.’s partnership with Emerson Process Management and local business partner (LBP) Applied Control Equipment (ACE) to execute a series of turnkey, high-integrity pressure protection systems (HIPPS). The systems are used to isolate and protect gas processing equipment from high pipeline pressures, providing a more elegant…

  • Taming Coker Unit Valve Troubles with Ingenuity and Teamwork

    Emerson Exchange News
    The three sets of coke drums at Suncor Energy’s Fort McMurray Upgrading Millennium Complex in northern Alberta, Canada, operate faster than any facilities of their size in the world. They heat bitumen mined from oil sands up to 925 degrees Fahrenheit, separate out light hydrocarbons that can be further refined, and collect the residual solid coke inside 127-foot-tall drums. The cooled coke is then cut with thousands of…

  • An Acoustic Flow Sensing Experiment Gone Right

    Emerson Exchange News
    Fluidized bed reactors combine hydrocarbons and air through a powdery solid catalyst to produce useful chemicals, as well as a lot of heat from the resulting chemical reaction. Water is pumped through coils immersed in the reactor bed, which is hot enough to produce many thousands of pounds of superheated steam per hour for use by the plant and neighboring refinery. A water or steam leak from a coil inside a reactor…

  • Creating a Better User Experience with Dashboard Control System Interfaces

    Emerson Exchange News
    Since they were first introduced, graphical user interfaces have come a long way in making industrial control systems easier for operators to use and understand. But as process automation technologies have become increasingly complex, so have user interfaces. As a result, operators often find themselves struggling with information overload. This has led many plants to seek out more human-friendly ways to monitor and control…

  • Reliability Is a Business Strategy

    Emerson Exchange News
    Mike Bacidore As much as 5% of production capacity is lost each year as a result of unplanned shutdowns, said Jim Nyquist, president of Emerson Process Management’s PlantWeb Solutions. Nyquist heralded the charge of the process solutions company into economic-based reliability strategies this week at the 2014 Emerson Global Users Exchange in Orlando, Fla. “Effective reliability programs are essential to maintaining…

  • 3D scanners take guesswork out of measuring bulk solids

    Emerson Exchange News
    Measuring bulk solids in large vessels, tanks, or bins can be tough, especially in dusty conditions or when the material surface is sloping or uneven. But during the technology exhibition at Emerson Exchange in Orlando, attendees saw how Emerson is making it easier: the Rosemount 5708 Series solids scanners. “These new instruments use acoustic measurement and 3D mapping technologies,” explained Eran Perlstein of Emerson…

  • 'Reliability Program of the Year' Finalists Share Best Practices

    Emerson Exchange News
    Interesting in learning reliability best practices from among the best in the business? In a pair of Technology Forum sessions (TF-2595) on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons, Emerson Process Management will host four customer finalists competing for the title of “Reliability Program of the Year" at this year's Exchange. The companies competing for this year's honors include the Celanese facility in Narrows, Va.; Consolidated…

  • 'Jump the Curve' to Foresee Transformative Innovations

    Emerson Exchange News
    By Jim Montague Seeing the future is easier if you take off blinders in the present. That's because many potential and upcoming innovations are already foreseeable given today's capabilities and tools. What's needed to reveal them is awareness and the humility give up stuck-in-a-rut thinking patterns that stifle useful questions and possibilities. Then the will to action can turn these desired futures into new realities…

  • Emerson Exchange to Inspire International Ingenuity

    Emerson Exchange News
    by Paul Studebaker “What moment of ingenuity set you on the path to where you are today?” began Steve Sonnenberg, Emerson executive vice president and president of Emerson Process Management, in his keynote address on the first day of the 2014 Emerson Global Users Exchange this week in Orlando, Florida. For Sonnenberg, the memorable moment of inspiration “came when I won first prize in the fourth-grade science fair…

  • Following the Emerson Exchange Conference Happenings

    Emerson Exchange News
    From the Emerson Process Experts blog . ...[if you] would like to peek in on the action, here are several ways. The first is this blog. I'll trying to get to as many workshops as I can which feature some of the subject matter experts around Emerson. It will be real-time and unpolished , but I'll try to give you a flavor for some of the action from the workshops and sessions. The second is to keep a tab opened…

  • Welcome to the 2014 Emerson Global Users Exchange!

    Emerson Exchange News
    Welcome to the 2014 Emerson Global Users Exchange, where our goal this week is to “Inspire Ingenuity” in one another. Your Emerson Exchange Board of Directors has been hard at work for the past year to make this year’s Exchange the most educational and valuable conference yet. We received 1,285 responses to last year’s feedback survey, and we appreciate your taking time to tell us how we can make the conference better…

  • Sonnenberg to Anchor Opening Keynotes

    Emerson Exchange News
    The keynote speakers at today’s general session promise to engage, inform, and inspire in equal measure. Following the traditional welcome address from this year’s conference chair, Sean Brady of Dominion Resource Services, will be Emerson Process Management President Steve Sonnenberg. The morning session concludes with a presentation by special guest keynoter, Jack Uldrich, renowned global futurist and author. Sean Brady…

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