Fluid Control & Pneumatics Blog

Emerson’s PACK EXPO Preview: Trends, Tech, and More!

Jim Cahill — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 13:21:17 GMT

The upcoming PACK EXPO is almost here, and Emerson is getting ready to showcase its innovative Floor to Cloud™︎ solutions. Our Emerson experts will be available at Booth 6107 to answer any questions you might have about meeting net zero targets, optim...(read more)

Exploring the Ways to Improve the Efficiency of Solenoid and Miniature Valves for Homecare and Portable Medical Devices

Jim Cahill — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 19:10:25 GMT

By combining the flexibility of new and proven flow-control products with the engineering expertise offered by valve suppliers, control valves for home care medical devices can become more efficient than ever before. In this article by Paul Gant, he ...(read more)

Improving Fuel Train Flow, Reliability and Safety

Jim Cahill — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 18:48:10 GMT

Industrial processes with furnaces, boilers, ovens, dryers, and other assets requiring combustion controls look to improve efficiency to reduce costs and lower emissions. One example is implementing a burner control strategy with pulse firing, which ...(read more)

Gas Control for Laser Cutting

Jim Cahill — Tue, 23 May 2023 19:37:55 GMT

Typically, engineers turn to direct acting proportional regulators to enable rapid system changes. A perfect fit for these is laser cutting machines where different gases must be controlled at both low and high pressures. During a laser cut, gas pres...(read more)

How Automation Can Help End Users and Device Manufacturers Scale Up the Clean Hydrogen Economy

Jim Cahill — Tue, 02 May 2023 13:24:05 GMT

We’re at a very exciting moment for the global hydrogen fuel market. Well past the prototype stage with fuel cells, electolyzers (the units that separate water into molecules of hydrogen and oxygen) and fueling stations, the industry has incentive to...(read more)

Three Simple Steps To Improve Gas Train Performance

Jim Cahill — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 17:27:23 GMT

When designing fuel trains for a boiler, furnace or oven, one of the key parameters you should strive to maximize is flow. Poor flow in a fuel train can limit the performance of the burner and can also put your entire combustion system at risk of shu...(read more)

Advantages of a Tunable Proportional Regulator

Jim Cahill — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 15:45:12 GMT

When you need more control over a process than simple on/off valves provide, proportional products offer an easy way to achieve that precision. Proportional regulators, sometimes called I to P or E to P valves, offer end-users a simple and reliable w...(read more)

Sustainability, safety, and maintenance with smart pneumatics

Jim Cahill — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 17:32:25 GMT

Smart pneumatics is a system of industrial automation that utilizes compressed air as its primary power source. It is a cost-effective and reliable way to control complex processes in a range of industries, such as food and beverage, automotive, aero...(read more)

The Advantages of Digitalization in Clean-in-Place Systems

Jim Cahill — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 17:26:51 GMT

Clean-in-place (CIP) systems are a vital part of daily production in the food and beverage industry. They allow manufacturers to clean internal piping, tanks, and machines from one batch to the next to meet government regulations and ensure product ...(read more)

Two-Solenoid Safety Instrumented Functions

Jim Cahill — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 20:28:09 GMT

The practice of process safety has its own language, including concepts such as PFDavg, 1oo2 (one out of two), 2oo2, 2oo3, etc. A whitepaper, Doubling Up On Safety (signup required for download), explores a two-solenoid safety methodology that lets y...(read more)

How Electronic Pressure Control Works

Jim Cahill — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 14:00:37 GMT

Electropneumatic PID controller with mechanical regulator produces output pressure equal to a command signal high (±0.1%) accuracy when combined with an accurate pressure transmitter. While many of us think about closed-loop pressure control in proce...(read more)

Retaining Talent: Creating an Engaging Company Culture

Jim Cahill — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 15:08:42 GMT

As companies worldwide struggle to maintain employee engagement and retain top talent, Deloitte reports that this is one of their biggest challenges. This is particularly true in the current climate where, in February 2022, over 4 million people chos...(read more)

What Is Emerson’s Rapid Engineered Solutions Program?

Jim Cahill — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 19:12:00 GMT

Rapid Engineered Solutions help analytical and medical equipment manufacturers accelerate the fluid handling design and engineering phase of new product development. Are you an analytical or medical OEM design engineer struggling with compressed prod...(read more)

Reliable Hydrogen Pressure Control for Vehicle Fuel Cells

Jim Cahill — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 20:47:55 GMT

Challenges exist across the hydrogen supply chain to enable its growing use as an energy carrier in the global energy mix. For transportation-related applications, the final stop in the chain is an energy source for fuel cells to convert hydrogen int...(read more)

Emerson Supports Scalability of Fuel Cell Systems

Jim Cahill — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 17:27:58 GMT

In order to meet the increasing demand for hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs), manufacturers need to scalable up quickly in terms of resources, factory extension, and procurement efficiency. However, supply-chain challenges remain a major o...(read more)