It’s always interesting to have a little historical trivia attached to our industries, and this article provides a good example: refineries started adding alkylation units during World War II to increase production of aviation gasoline for all those piston-engine aircraft. The process is still in use today, with a few unresolved challenges. Hydrofluoric acid (HF) alkylation is a very corrosive process, which Lydia...

Engineers in the Spotlight The second engineer in the spotlight for Engineers week is David Martinez-Morett. He works as a Research Engineer IV at the Emerson office in Boulder, Colorado. David has been with the company for 1 year and 6 months and... Read the full text.

Engineers in the Spotlight The second engineer in the spotlight for Engineers week is David Martinez-Morett. He works as a Research Engineer IV at the Emerson office in Boulder, Colorado. David has been with the company for 1 year and 6 months and holds...

Deadly hydrogen sulfide (H₂S) can be present in industries such as oil & gas production and wastewater treatment. The Wikipedia Hydrogen Sulfide page highlights the danger: Short-term, high-level exposure can induce immediate collapse, with loss of breathing and a high probability of death. If death does not occur, high exposure to hydrogen sulfide can lead to cortical pseudolaminar necrosis , degeneration of the basal...

Engineers in the Spotlight In celebration of Engineers week, we’d like to spotlight a couple of the Emerson Flow Solutions engineers. The first engineer in the spotlight is Jarrod Zacher. He works as an Embedded Software Engineer at the Emerson office... Read the full text.

Engineers in the Spotlight In celebration of Engineers week, we’d like to spotlight a couple of the Emerson Flow Solutions engineers. The first engineer in the spotlight is Jarrod Zacher. He works as an Embedded Software Engineer at the Emerson office...

Ultrasonic welding is: …an industrial technique whereby high-frequency ultrasonic acoustic  vibrations are locally applied to workpieces being held together under pressure to create a solid-state weld . It is commonly used for plastics , and especially for...

Many manufacturers and producers require high-resolution analysis of liquid and process gas streams as an integral part of their production processes. A big challenge is in designing, engineering, installing, commissioning and supporting these complex analytical systems over their lifespans. This 3-minute YouTube video, Rosemount Analytical Systems and Integration Services , highlights considerations to reduce project...

The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) outlines the drug development process in five steps: Discovery and development Preclinical research Clinical trials FDA review FDA post-market safety monitoring Zuwei Jin I caught up with Emerson’s Zuwei Jin whom you may recall from earlier posts on the role of automation in the drug development process . Zuwei explained to me how manufacturing execution systems...

Tom Wienke For oil & gas well pads not connected to pipelines, custody transfer of the produced oil and produced water occurs via truck transport. The trucks load oil from holding tanks and require accurate measurements for the custody transfer from producer. Similarly, this is true for the produced water in their holding tanks sent off for disposal. In a Flow Control article, API 18.2: Ensure Safety While Providing...