Opportunity crudes provide refiners with lower feedstock costs, but they must be carefully characterized and blended with other crudes to avoid problems during the refining process. These opportunity crudes are typically discounted from typical crudes because of the refining challenges they introduce. In the 4-minute YouTube video, How to Maximize Profit by Characterizing and Blending Opportunity Crudes , Emerson...

January is a time for us to take a look back before we plan for the new year. In looking over our blog offerings from 2018 we pulled together the top 5 posts that resonated the most with you, our readers. Checking the engagement statistics, we identified... Read the full text.

January is a time for us to take a look back before we plan for the new year. In looking over our blog offerings from 2018 we pulled together the top 5 posts that resonated the most with you, our readers. Checking the engagement statistics, we identified...

Many tank gauging systems still rely on old mechanical devices using float or servo technology since plant managers often think replacing a complete tank gauging system is too costly and partial upgrades are fraught with communication problems. A recent white paper entitled Upgrade Your System Step-by-Step explains how emulation can provide a simple and cost-effective solution for tank gauging upgrade projects. Click...

Happy New Year and welcome to 2019! Let’s ease into the post holidays with a short video on tank gauging. This 2:55 YouTube video, High Performance Tank Gauging shows how Rosemount Tank Gauging systems secure efficient tank farm operations, reduce risk and minimize measurement uncertainty. Some common challenges terminal operators face are required accuracy levels for custody transfer applications, reliable...

Let’s end the week with a quick look at how some instrumentation protects against intermittent power outages. This short, 1-minute Youtube video, How to Secure Safe Operations During Power Outages shows the power reserve function of the Rosemount 5408 level transmitter which ensures safe operations even during power outages. Visit the level measurement area on Emerson.com for more on the best technologies for...

Solving Flow Measurement Challenges in the Food & Beverage Industry In 2016 Emerson launched Advanced Phase Measurement (APM), a software that adapts – in AI fashion – to the process it’s monitoring, and it will map out the air entrainment trends,... Read the full text.

Solving Flow Measurement Challenges in the Food & Beverage Industry In 2016 Emerson launched Advanced Phase Measurement (APM), a software that adapts – in AI fashion – to the process it’s monitoring, and it will map out the air entrainment trends...

Our world is dependent on all the copper wire distributing electricity and communications signals over great distances and throughout our homes and businesses. Mining and refining this copper into the purity required poses safety, efficiency and reliability challenges for global miners. I learned quite a bit about the mining process and its challenges from Emerson’s Alena Johnson excellent Mining Engineering magazine...

Emerson Training Courses: What Others are Saying Over the past few weeks we’ve talked about the great classes and hands-on training Emerson offers to our customers. Today, we’d like to share some of the feedback we have received from people who have... Read the full text.

Emerson Training Courses: What Others are Saying Over the past few weeks we’ve talked about the great classes and hands-on training Emerson offers to our customers. Today, we’d like to share some of the feedback we have received from people who have taken...

Emerson Training Courses: What Others are Saying Over the past few weeks we’ve talked about the great classes and hands-on training Emerson offers to our customers. Today, we’d like to share some of the feedback we have received from people who have... Read the full text.

Emerson Training Courses: What Others are Saying Over the past few weeks we’ve talked about the great classes and hands-on training Emerson offers to our customers. Today, we’d like to share some of the feedback we have received from people who have taken...

At the recent Emerson Exchange conference in San Antonio, Emerson’s Laura Chemler developed a presentation with a Chief Technology Officer at a brewing company to present how data from flow meters helped produce the highest quality beer. This CTO is obsessed with data—collecting data, observing trends in the data, figuring out what the data can tell besides pressure or temperature in tanks. Laura presented this...

Selecting the right flowmeter is an expert panel session at the 2018 Emerson Exchange conference. The panel included Emerson’s Trever Ball , Karl Stappert , Dan Hackett , Jeff Foster , and Steve Ifft . Types of flow measurement devices in the panel discussion include magnetic flowmeters, Coriolis, Ultrasonic, Vortex, Turbine and differential pressure (DP) flow. Trever described how magnetic flowmeters are known for...

Emerson Educational Services Once you have chosen the classes you’d like to sign up for, as we showed you in our previous blog post on Emerson Educational Services, you can sign up using the following steps: Go to the MYCONNECT website... Read the full text.

Emerson Educational Services Once you have chosen the classes you’d like to sign up for, as we showed you in our previous blog post on Emerson Educational Services, you can sign up using the following steps: Go to the MYCONNECT website Click on the...

Emerson Educational Services Once you have chosen the classes you’d like to sign up for, as we showed you in our previous blog post on Emerson Educational Services, you can sign up using the following steps: Go to the MYCONNECT website... Read the full text.

Emerson Educational Services Once you have chosen the classes you’d like to sign up for, as we showed you in our previous blog post on Emerson Educational Services, you can sign up using the following steps: Go to the MYCONNECT website Click on the...

Emerson’s Marc Buttler joined two oil & gas professionals in a 2018 Emerson Exchange conference presentation, US Onshore Regulatory Compliance & Measurement Standards Update. Their abstract: Regulatory compliance, perfect execution, cost of ownership, and industry acceptance are important topics to upstream and midstream operators in the United States. The development and implementation of new technology has led...

Basic sediment and water , or BS&W. It’s what comes along for the ride in most oil & gas producing wells. The goal is to separate these from the oil and gas for proper disposal. The sediment portion, often consisting of sand, can collect and accumulate in the product & test separators as well as the production tanks. This quick, 1-minute YouTube video, Rosemount 2140. Sand Detection Made Easy , shows how this accumulated...

Choosing Your Flow Measurement Training Now that you know Emerson offers education and training along with its world-class products, including courses focused on Coriolis , Magnetic , Vortex and Ultrasonic Flow Meters , how can you find the one that... Read the full text.

Choosing Your Flow Measurement Training Now that you know Emerson offers education and training along with its world-class products, including courses focused on Coriolis , Magnetic , Vortex and Ultrasonic Flow Meters , how can you find the one that’s just...

Choosing Your Flow Measurement Training Now that you know Emerson offers education and training along with its world-class products, including courses focused on Coriolis , Magnetic , Vortex and Ultrasonic Flow Meters , how can you find the one that... Read the full text.

Choosing Your Flow Measurement Training Now that you know Emerson offers education and training along with its world-class products, including courses focused on Coriolis , Magnetic , Vortex and Ultrasonic Flow Meters , how can you find the one that’s just...