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  • Flow Blog: Safely and Reliably Measuring Sulfuric Acid Concentration

    Jim Cahill
    Here’s a quick 1:45 YouTube video story of how an international mining company overcame challenges in measuring sulfuric acid concentration with Emerson’s Flexim PIOX S solution , ensuring uninterrupted control over acid strength and mitigating corrosion risks. Emerson’s Mathias Gehl describes how the challenges when measuring high-concentration sulfuric acid include maintaining efficient and safe operations, minimizing…

  • Level Blog: Radar Level Measurement Innovations

    Jim Cahill
    Emerson’s Mark Bett and Sara Anderberg presented Making Level and Life a Little Easier, a New Non-Contacting Radar for Your Industry Needs, at the 2024 Emerson Exchange Conference in Düsseldorf, Germany. Here is their presentation abstract: While the benefits of radar level measurement are widely acknowledged, leading to the technology’s fast-growing adoption across multiple industries, radars are still sometimes perceived…

  • Flow Blog: Instrumentation Considerations for Carbon Capture Processes

    Jim Cahill
    If you’re in Minneapolis this week for the Carbon Capture & Storage Summit , make sure to catch Emerson’s Lara Petrishchev’s presentation, Instrumentation Technologies to Address Carbon Capture Challenges. Let me highlight a few points if you can’t make it. Lara will open by showing a typical carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) capture process in hydrogen production. The flue gas from the reformer is cooled and desulfurized…

  • Pressure Blog: Instrumentation Considerations for Carbon Capture Processes

    Jim Cahill
    If you’re in Minneapolis this week for the Carbon Capture & Storage Summit , make sure to catch Emerson’s Lara Petrishchev’s presentation, Instrumentation Technologies to Address Carbon Capture Challenges. Let me highlight a few points if you can’t make it. Lara will open by showing a typical carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) capture process in hydrogen production. The flue gas from the reformer is cooled and desulfurized…

  • Pressure Blog: Instrumentation Considerations for Carbon Capture Processes

    Jim Cahill
    If you’re in Minneapolis this week for the Carbon Capture & Storage Summit , make sure to catch Emerson’s Lara Petrishchev’s presentation, Instrumentation Technologies to Address Carbon Capture Challenges. Let me highlight a few points if you can’t make it. Lara will open by showing a typical carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) capture process in hydrogen production. The flue gas from the reformer is cooled and desulfurized…

  • Flow Blog: Flow and Density Technologies in Food and Beverage Production

    Jim Cahill
    In a presentation at the Emerson Exchange EMEA 2024 , Abdurrahman Ayar, co-founder of IO PROCESS Elektronik Makine San. Ve Tic A.Ş. ,​ outlined the use of flow and density measurement technologies within food and beverage applications. Based in Izmir, on Turkey’s Aegean coast, IO PROCESS provides engineering and maintenance services for measurement control and instrumentation products. The company delivers instrumentation…

  • Flow Blog: Nothing But Water in the Water Drain

    Jim Cahill
    4C-HSE’s Steve Probst and Emerson’s Marcio Donnangelo presented Nothing But Water in the Water Drain at the 4C Health, Safety & Environmental Conference. The tank dewatering process starts with storage tanks that hold hydrocarbon feedstocks, intermediates, and finished products. Over time, water separates and collects in the tanks. Water is drained from storage tanks, reducing corrosion and potential process problems…

  • Level Blog: Radar provides most accurate and reliable solution for water level measurement

    Jim Cahill
    Ultrasonic devices have historically provided level measurements in water and wastewater applications, despite their accuracy often being impaired by conditions such as temperature, pressure, foam, turbulence, build-up, wind, dirt and even spiderwebs. In a Process Industry Informer article, ‘ Non-contacting Radars to Replace Ultrasonic Devices for Water Applications ’, I explain why the latest non-contacting radar transmitters…

  • Flow Blog: Mining Water Management Compliance

    Jim Cahill
    Emerson’s Mathias Gehl , from the recently acquired Flexim organization, presented Water Management Compliance with FLEXIM Non-Intrusive Flow Measurement at the 2024 Emerson Exchange Conference in Düsseldorf, Germany. Here is his presentation abstract: A Peruvian mining company faced the imperative of installing a new flow metering system to meet local water management regulations. This undertaking presents challenges…

  • Flow Blog: Cryogenic Mass Flow Metering at CERN

    Jim Cahill
    CERN ( Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire ) houses the world’s largest complex of particle accelerators and detectors. These scientific instruments probe the fundamental structure of the particles that make up everything around us. In his presentation at the Emerson Exchange EMEA 2024 , Juan Casas Cubillos, engineer at CERN, outlined the use of Coriolis flow meters in very challenging cryogenic applications…

  • Flow Blog: Accuracy and Consistency in Multiphase Flow Measurement

    Jim Cahill
    Multiphase flow meters measure the individual flow rates of oil, gas, and water flowing from oil & gas production wells. Expro ’s Ali Abu Ikhzam shares background on their collaborative work with Emerson. Ali Abu Ikhzam Amidst the rapid transition in the energy industry, the challenges of flow management are intensifying. Accuracy and consistency in measurements are essential for effective flow management, and this…

  • Flow Blog: Accuracy and Consistency in Multiphase Flow Measurement

    Jim Cahill
    Multiphase flow meters measure the individual flow rates of oil, gas, and water flowing from oil & gas production wells. Expro ’s Ali Abu Ikhzam shares background on their collaborative work with Emerson. Ali Abu Ikhzam Amidst the rapid transition in the energy industry, the challenges of flow management are intensifying. Accuracy and consistency in measurements are essential for effective flow management, and this…

  • Flow Blog: Improved Instrumentation Necessary to Support Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Refueling Infrastructure

    Jim Cahill
    Many antique collectors love “visible” gasoline pumps that were common roughly a century ago. They’re the tall ones with a large glass graduated cylinder at the top. When filling up, the station attendant would manually pump gasoline into the cylinder, and then allow it to drain via gravity into the customer’s car. The amount charged was the difference between the starting and ending measurements. Obviously, not the most…

  • Analytical Experts Blog: Achieving Ethylene Purity Calls for Selecting Right Gas Analyzer

    Jim Cahill
    More than 100 years ago, Ivory Soap started claiming, and still says, its bar of soap is “ninety-nine and forty-four-one-hundredths percent pure.” At the time, that was an astonishing figure, but in much of the chemical manufacturing industry today, 99.44% purity doesn’t cut it. With ethylene manufacturing, producers want 99.99% purity. This sounds like a challenging goal, but with a stable and effective process, it’s…

  • Analytical Experts Blog: Achieving Ethylene Purity Calls for Selecting Right Gas Analyzer

    Jim Cahill
    More than 100 years ago, Ivory Soap started claiming, and still says, its bar of soap is “ninety-nine and forty-four-one-hundredths percent pure.” At the time, that was an astonishing figure, but in much of the chemical manufacturing industry today, 99.44% purity doesn’t cut it. With ethylene manufacturing, producers want 99.99% purity. This sounds like a challenging goal, but with a stable and effective process, it’s…

  • Analytical Experts Blog: How Pure Does Hydrogen Need to Be? And How Do We Measure It?

    Jim Cahill
    One of the interesting aspects of our growing hydrogen economy is the way that it is turning up in all sorts of new places and applications. Ammonia plants and refineries have been handling hydrogen for decades, but the proliferation of electrolyzers, fuel cells, and various residential uses has all sorts of people needing to learn a lot about hydrogen very quickly. For example, one common question: “How pure does hydrogen…

  • Analytical Experts Blog: How Pure Does Hydrogen Need to Be? And How Do We Measure It?

    Jim Cahill
    One of the interesting aspects of our growing hydrogen economy is the way that it is turning up in all sorts of new places and applications. Ammonia plants and refineries have been handling hydrogen for decades, but the proliferation of electrolyzers, fuel cells, and various residential uses has all sorts of people needing to learn a lot about hydrogen very quickly. For example, one common question: “How pure does hydrogen…

  • Analytical Experts Blog: Laser-based Microleak Detection Improves Aerosol Production Efficiency and Product Safety

    Jim Cahill
    The aerosol manufacturing industry has come a long way since the introduction of “bug bombs” during WWII. To meet today’s high demand for aerosol products, assembly lines must produce copious volumes in a wide variety of packaging, while upholding high standards of safety and quality. Any product defects—including split gaskets in valves, pinholes in cans, molding flash on valve components, and clinch or crimp failures…

  • Analytical Experts Blog: Laser-based Microleak Detection Improves Aerosol Production Efficiency and Product Safety

    Jim Cahill
    The aerosol manufacturing industry has come a long way since the introduction of “bug bombs” during WWII. To meet today’s high demand for aerosol products, assembly lines must produce copious volumes in a wide variety of packaging, while upholding high standards of safety and quality. Any product defects—including split gaskets in valves, pinholes in cans, molding flash on valve components, and clinch or crimp failures…

  • Flow Blog: Safe, Reliable and Accurate Loading and Unloading Operations

    Jim Cahill
    Loading and unloading operations for chemical producers must be performed safely, reliably, and accurately. I caught up with Emerson’s Martin McDonough on ways to mitigate risks and improve operational performance. These operations can be some of the highest-risk operations within a facility and account for as much as 80% of transport-related incidents. In addition to mitigating risks to personnel and the environment…

  • Flow Blog: Safe, Reliable and Accurate Loading and Unloading Operations

    Jim Cahill
    Loading and unloading operations for chemical producers must be performed safely, reliably, and accurately. I caught up with Emerson’s Martin McDonough on ways to mitigate risks and improve operational performance. These operations can be some of the highest-risk operations within a facility and account for as much as 80% of transport-related incidents. In addition to mitigating risks to personnel and the environment…

  • Level Blog: Safe, Reliable and Accurate Loading and Unloading Operations

    Jim Cahill
    Loading and unloading operations for chemical producers must be performed safely, reliably, and accurately. I caught up with Emerson’s Martin McDonough on ways to mitigate risks and improve operational performance. These operations can be some of the highest-risk operations within a facility and account for as much as 80% of transport-related incidents. In addition to mitigating risks to personnel and the environment…

  • Temperature Blog: An Alternative to Traditional Temperature Measurement Solutions

    Jim Cahill
    In our four-part series on temperature measurement, we have reviewed the basics of temperature measurement , the value of using a measurement transmitter , and the ins and outs of a thermowell . In this blog, which is the last in the series, we examine an alternative solution for situations where traditional thermowells may not be the best temperature measurement option. Monitoring process temperatures is one of the…

  • Temperature Blog: Advance Process Industry Operations by Harnessing Rosemount™︎ X-well™︎ Technology

    Jim Cahill
    Temperature measurement is a critical parameter in various industries, including the process industry, where precise control of temperature is essential for optimizing efficiency, ensuring product quality, and maintaining safety standards. Traditional temperature measurement methods often require intrusive sensors and thermowells that can lead to operational disruptions and potential contamination risks. The emergence…

  • Level Blog: Accurate Level & Flow Measurements for Sludge & Sediment Processing

    Jim Cahill
    You may have seen the news earlier this year, Emerson’s Non-Contacting Radar Transmitters Improve Efficiency in Water, Wastewater and Process Industry Utility Applications . The news release highlighted the Rosemount 1208 level and flow non-contacting radar transmitter series that: …help increase the operational efficiency of water, wastewater and process industry utility applications. The performance of the 1208…

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