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  • European MID Directive for Custody Transfer Measurement Webinar

    Jim Cahill
    The European Measuring Instruments Directive (MID) for Custody Transfer Measuring Instruments applies in all 27 EU-countries (plus Norway and Switzerland). This directive becomes mandatory by October of 2016 for new installations and includes 10 different...

  • Coriolis Meter and Meter Verification Educational Video

    Jim Cahill
    Coriolis mass flow and density measurement is used in a multitude of applications such as custody transfer, dirty/wet gas, cryogenic, critical phase fluids, sanitary, corrosive liquids, and more. Emerson’s Micro Motion team has put together and excellent...

  • Installing an Annubar Averaging Pitot Tube Flowmeter

    Jim Cahill
    It’s been a week of travel, so we’ll close it with a video from Emerson’s Rosemount measurement team on how to install an Annubar averaging pitot tube flowmeter. The Youtube video shows the installation process for a Rosemount 485 Pak-Lok flowmeter. This...

  • In-Situ Proof Test Coverage for Coriolis Flow and Density Meters

    Jim Cahill
    Process safety is a top concern for manufacturers with hazardous areas. I received a question on a blog post, Calibrating Coriolis Flowmeters In-Situ: What is Emerson’s statement of proof test coverage (e.g. for SIS testing) for the in-situ tests described...

  • LNG Fuel Custody Transfer for Marine Vessels

    Jim Cahill
    In earlier posts, we’ve highlighted the use of bunker fuel for marine vessels. With the global trend for increased supplies and decreased costs of natural gas and tightening environmental regulations, marine transportation companies are looking at cleaner...

  • Understanding and Handling Entrained Gas Flow Measurement

    Jim Cahill
    I was alerted to a nice series of videos on two-phase flow measurement, also known as liquid with entrained gas. These videos were developed by Emerson’s Micro Motion team. In the first video (2:37), Two-Phase Flow (entrained gas) Applications, Emerson...

  • Systematic Flowmeter Selection Process

    Jim Cahill
    One of the challenges automation engineers face is in the selection of the best flow measurement technology for their application. Multitudes of technologies exist, each with their advantages and disadvantages. Emerson’s Brian Fretschel and Amy K. Johnson...

  • Natural Gas as a Transportation Fuel

    Jim Cahill
    Natural gas has been used as a transportation fuel for many years in world areas such as Europe. With the differential in energy costs between natural gas and refined hydrocarbons, it’s being piloted and considered for use in other world areas such as...

  • Non-Wetted Vortex Sensor for Reliable Flow Measurement

    Jim Cahill
    Emerson’s Brad Burton provided a look at technology advancements in vortex flow measurement. His Emerson Exchange presentation abstract: The Rosemount 8800D Vortex flowmeter’s unique non-clog/non-leak design with a non-wetted vortex sensor enables sensor...

  • Pipeline Liquid Pressure Surge Relief

    Jim Cahill
    If you’re in the business of transporting hydrocarbons through pipelines, you know that surge relief valves are often the last line of pipeline protection. Emerson’s Trilochan Gupta authored a recent Intech magazine article, Specifying surge relief valves...

  • Liquefied Natural Gas Measurement Challenges

    Jim Cahill
    When your company ships its products to your customers, wouldn’t you like to be able to shrink the volume 600 times to save on shipping costs? If you’re in the business of liquefied natural gas (LNG), that’s exactly what you do. And, with the increasing...

  • Remotely Monitoring Marine Vessel Fuel Consumption

    Jim Cahill
    We discussed the challenges in measuring bunker fuels on marine vessels in prior posts. Last week, you may have seen the news item Emerson introduces remote fuel consumption and bunkering monitoring system. The news from the release: Emerson Process Management...

  • Compressed Natural Gas and Liquefied Natural Gas in China

    Jim Cahill
    I heard from Emerson’s Major Chu, who writes the Chinese-language Emerson Flow blog, about a recently published Asian NGV Communications article, East meets West-Three leading CNG/LNG stakeholders met in China (page 31). The article highlights the “three...

  • Mass-Volume-Density Measurement in Oil and Gas Drilling and Production

    Jim Cahill
    If you’re in or have interest in the oil and gas industry, Emerson’s stewards of the Micro Motion brand of Coriolis flow and density meters have come up with some great new YouTube videos for drilling and production operations. Here are the videos with...

  • Calibrating Coriolis Flowmeters In-Situ

    Jim Cahill
    Emerson’s Jonas Berge added a comment to a post, Mass Flow Measurement for Fuel Gases. In his comment, he pointed to a Control Engineering Asia article, Time for Calibration?, that he had written a couple years ago. In the article, Jonas explains how...

  • The Longest Heated and Insulated Oil Pipeline in Action

    Jim Cahill
    At last October’s Emerson Exchange in Nashville, I highlighted a story told about a custody transfer application on the world’s longest heated and insulated pipeline. Here’s a quick summary of the story: Emerson’s Daniel business unit provided a custody...

  • Upsizing Coriolis High Capacity Flow Measurement

    Jim Cahill
    I saw news recently of the Micro Motion high-capacity flow meters adding a 16″ (400mm) line connection size. The release notes: This ELITE High Capacity Coriolis meter addresses the need for high accuracy, large line size measuring instruments and provides...

  • Reliability through Best Practices

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    While using best practices for your process control and instrumentation would seem obvious, best practices are not always common practices.  Often times plants are unaware of a better way to control the process.  The common adage is this is the way we...

  • Coriolis Measurement in Filling and Combustion Applications

    Jim Cahill
    My YouTube subscription feed alerted me to a new pair of YouTube videos from Emerson’s Micro Motion brand team– Filling with Coriolis and Combustion Control with Coriolis. These videos were created at the Emerson Exchange conference this past October...

  • Coriolis and Wireless Measurement in Pipeline Leak Detection

    Jim Cahill
    In September, the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC) Pipeline Leak Detection Technology Conference gathered to: …provide vendors, scientists, and research and development entities, the opportunity to describe the status of existing...

  • Download latest software and firmware for Daniel ultrasonic flow meters

    Gerard H
    Usability of the documentation page at www.Daniel.com has been significantly enhanced in response to customer feedback - datasheets and collateral can now be seen on a single page. In addition, it is now possible to download the latest ultrasonic diagnostics software, meter firmware and modbus tables after registration. This means that we will be able to let you know when future releases become available.

  • Measuring Raw Materials for Chemical Reactions

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    The chemical reactions are the most critical processes in a chemical plant.  Reagents, catalysts and feedstocks are combined in chemical reaction vessels to produce other more valuable chemicals.  Sometimes these are finished products.  Other times these...

  • Developing a Reliable Instrument Specification

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    A client of mine recently asked me what information was needed to create an instrument specification for a project.  Naturally, this was the start of a fairly in-depth conversation.  Overall, an instrument specification needs to be specific enough to...

  • Industrial Gas Flow Using Wireless Technology

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    Industrial gas is used in many applications in a process plant.  Nitrogen is used for tank blanketing or to eliminate oxygen in a combustible environment.  Oxygen can be used in a process reaction or in waste water treatment to eliminate organic compounds...

  • Thermowell Wake Frequency Calculation

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    The first wake frequency calculation standard was published by AMSE is 1974 and was based on a paper written by J.W. Murdock in the 1950s.  This is the ASME PTC 19.3-1974 standard.  However, it did not account for all installations.  The Monju Fast Breeder...

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