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Jim Cahill
- 2 Apr 2020
DeltaV Blog: Upgrading Boiler Burner Management and Combustion Control Systems

Bob Sabin Peter Kline Authors: Bob Sabin , Peter Kline The Emerson Industrial Energy consulting team assisted a Northeastern U.S. specialty chemical manufacturer with modernizing the controls on two 1960’s vintage Combustion Engineering “D” Type process steam boilers. These units are critical to site operation as they supply steam to a common header that feeds processes throughout the production facility. For...
Emerson Flow Expert
- 21 Feb 2020
Flow Blog: Emerson’s Corrosion and Erosion Solutions Team at NACE Corrosion Conference & Expo 2020

Join us at CORROSION 2020 Houston, TX, is hosting the NACE Corrosion Conference & Expo this March 15 th – 19 th . We are proud to have our Corrosion and Erosion Solutions Team attending the world’s largest conference dedicated to the study, prevention... Read the full text.
Jim Cahill
- 21 Feb 2020
Safety Instrumented Systems Blog: Safety Shower and Location Awareness Wireless Monitoring

Marcio Donnangelo In an earlier post, How Digital Transformation Can Impact Compliance for Environmental and Safety Regulation , I shared some safety examples. Emerson’s Marcio Donnangelo explored specific examples more deeply in his 2020 4C HSE conference presentation, Safety Showers and Location Awareness – Improving Safety with Wireless Monitoring. Marcio opened describing three ways to help create a safe environment...
Emerson Flow Expert
- 18 Feb 2020
Flow Blog: The Benefits of Upgrading to the Rosemount 8782 Transmitter in Slurry Applications

The Perks of the Rosemount 8782 Transmitter As we discussed previously, the new Rosemount Slurry Magnetic Flow Meter is the newest innovation in flow meter technology. The newly designed Rosemount 8782 Transmitter works with the Rosemount MS Sensor... Read the full text.
Emerson Flow Expert
- 13 Feb 2020
Flow Blog: What to Expect from Emerson at the 2020 SME Annual Conference & Expo

Join Us at the 2020 SME Conference The MineXchange 2020 conference is dedicated to all disciplines of mining engineering, and it’s coming up this month from February 21 st – 27 th . Because we are always working on new ways to make mining safer, sounder... Read the full text.
Jim Cahill
- 11 Feb 2020
DeltaV Blog: ISASecure Family of Certifications Builds Foundation for Automation Cybersecurity

Alexandre Peixoto Andre Ristaino Authors: Emerson’s Alexandre Peixoto , International Society of Automation (ISA)’s Andre Ristaino Selecting, engineering, implementing, and operating a control system is a significant, long-term investment. Applying a defense-in-depth strategy to protect the process from cybersecurity risks is another significant, long-term investment that can be made more complicated if the inherent...
Jim Cahill
- 6 Feb 2020
DeltaV Blog: Compressor Anti-Surge Control Value Improvement Practice

Pete Sharpe Author: Pete Sharpe An ethylene plant has a number of very large, very critical compressors which will cause the entire plant to shutdown if they ever trip. The cracked gas compressor increases the entire cold-side feed from around 3 psig to ~475 psig, typically through 5 stages. The two refrigeration compressors are the next biggest compressors that can also shut down the entire plant if they trip...
Jim Cahill
- 4 Feb 2020
DeltaV Blog: Modernization of DCS and PLC with Electronic Marshalling

Scott Ross Now, with many control systems being 30+ years old, most of these legacy systems have been placed in to end of life or retired lifecycle status. This means no further factory support is available. I caught up with Emerson’s Scott Ross about some of the choices that must be considered moving forward. Manufacturers and producers face options whether to modernize to a newer family of distributed control systems...
Jim Cahill
- 3 Feb 2020
Asset Management Blog: Improving Reliability with Impact Detection Analytics

Operational analytics are used to help improve safety, reliability, energy & emissions, and production. From a reliability perspective, one example is PeakVue impact detection analytics which provides early warning for problems such as rotating equipment bearing failures. You may recall an announcement from last year about PeakVue Plus : …a technology enhancement that brings prescriptive analytics to the field to help...
Jim Cahill
- 31 Jan 2020
Valves Blog: Fail-Safe Electric Actuators for Quarter-Turn Valves

Aaron Roepke For many applications, such as emergency shutdowns (ESD), on-off quarter valves with electric actuators are the best fit. In the event of loss of power, some type of fail-safe mechanism may be required to bring the valve into an open or closed position as required by the process. These applications are typically found in the oil & gas, power, chemical, HVAC, and water & wastewater industries. The Bettis...