Effectively managing pressure in hydrocarbon-based production processes is critical from a safety, environmental and efficiency standpoint. Pressure relief devices (PRDs) are found throughout the production processing equipment. At last spring's 115th American Fuel...
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Avoiding the Impact of Steam Trap Failures
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, industrial manufacturers are larger energy consumers than the transportation, residential and commercial sectors. The industrial sector accounts for around 30 trillion BTUs of energy consumed annually....
Reducing Relief Valve Emissions via Continuous Monitoring
There are many ways to manage pressure in production processes. A common way for handling over-pressure conditions is through the use of relief valves. Wikipedia defines a relief valve as: …a type of valve used to control or limit the pressure in a system or vessel...
How Efficient is Your Steam System?
Emerson's Steffen Terreblanche highlights ways to improve your plant's energy efficiency by continuously monitoring your steam traps. As the world becomes a "smaller" place and process manufacturers are forced to compete in a global market place, we see more and more...
Wirelessly Monitoring Offshore Africa Oil and Gas Platform
A major oil & gas producer needed a way to improve the accuracy of its measurements and develop its offshore monitoring processes off the coast of Africa. Emerson's Ali Alkasah shared this story with me and noted that platform personnel were conducting manual...
Control What You Can Measure
You've likely heard the phrase, "You can't control what you don't measure." Emerson's Jonas Berge, in a Control Engineering Asia article, Wireless for Asset Uptime, notes that many plants were built years ago with the minimum amount of instrumentation required for...
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