At last week's API Storage Tank Conference in San Francisco, California USA, Emerson's Lance Berry, President & General Manager of the Rosemount Tank Gauging North American team, presented on API-2350 Overfill Prevention Systems. He opened highlighting the three...
Emerson's Mikael Helmer provided an update on modern tank gauging systems and reasons to upgrade from existing ones. His abstract:The industry trend is clear, and have been so for a number of years. New radar based tank gauging systems are becoming the industry...
Hi. It's Chris Womack again, with another tidbit about terminals. If you haven't seen it yet, an article in the July-August issue of Tank Storage magazine adds a little update about Emerson's partnership with Vopak, the world's largest bulk-liquids storage firm. (The...
Yesterday, we highlighted the role of mass-based flow measurement in liquefied natural gas (LNG) custody transfer applications. Today, I wanted to highlight the role of radar tank gauging technology in LNG tank storage applications. I'll point the LNG Tank Gauging...
Here's another guest post by me, Chris Womack. Custody transfer is today's topic—specifically, improving level and temperature measurement of crude oil for custody transfer, while minimizing cost and disturbances to current operations. Even more specifically, when...
As the supply of natural gas continues to swell in parts of the world, the economics to transport this gas to lower supply areas is driving the project planning for liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities. One only has to do Google News search on LNG to see all the...
In an earlier post, Avoiding Dangerous Conditions through Tank Floating Roof Level Monitoring, we highlighted how technology can assist in providing early warning for abnormal situations such as roof tilt in tank farms. I received an email question: …so when the roof...
I wanted to share two videos from Emerson's Rosemount Tank Gauging team. Both feature Emerson's Ulf Johannesson. In the first, short 1:36 video, StocExpo 2013 - Tank Gauging Solutions, from the recent StocExpo 2013 conference, Ulf describes elements of the Raptor Tank...
One of Europe's leading events for the tank terminal industry is StocExpo, going on this week in Antwerp, Belgium. The Emerson team is there showing tank gauging and terminal management solutions. I had the opportunity to get my hands on a presentation being given...
At the past Emerson Exchange technical conference in Anaheim, Emerson's Rosemount Level team captured a number of video demonstrations. I'll highlight the new ones added to the Rosemount Level YouTube playlist. In this 2:31 YouTube video, Rosemount 2130 SIL 2...
Earlier this week, we highlighted an updated thermowell installation standard. Today let's talk about the 4th version of API 2350 Overfill Protection standard. This standard applies to petroleum storage tanks associated with marketing, refining, pipeline, terminals...
Bulk liquid storage tanks are found in many industrial processes including refineries, tank terminals, pipeline terminals, petrochemical and LNG plants, and aviation fuel depots to name a few. There are two predominant requirements from a process safety and control...
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