Emerson's Thomas Snowdon, a member of the Power & Water Solutions team, shares his thoughts on the changing global energy mix. A recent Power Magazine article, Global Gas Glut, made much of the prediction that shale gas production and its use is likely to grow...
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Efficient Consumption of Heavy Fuel Oil in Shipping Operations
The trend for process manufacturers to globalize production over the last few decades has created large distances between production and consumption, and increased the need for shipping to close these distances. The Lloyd's Register blog shares in a post, Heavy fuel...
Modernizing Burner Management Systems
The Industrial Safety and Security Source blog has a post, Firing Up Burner System, which describes the implementation of a burner management system (BMS) at RockTenn's recycled paper mill in St. Paul, Minnesota. Their challenge was to replace an old relay panel-based...
New Analytic Expert Blog Highlights Gas and Liquid Analyzer Experience
I wanted to highlight a new Emerson Process Management blog, Analytic Expert. This blog is a team effort by Rosemount Analytical product and application experts. Here's background on the four bloggers listed on the About Us page. Jim Gray has worked as an application...
Analyzing Flue Gas Emissions
Back in January, I shared some thoughts from Emerson's Doug Simmers on improving combustion in a post, Optimum Combustion for Reduced Greenhouse Emissions. He'll be presenting later this year on flue gas analysis and I was able to get my hands on a rough draft. I'll...
Optimum Combustion for Reduced Greenhouse Emissions
Last week, I highlighted some of the greenhouse gas regulatory reporting changes happening here in the U.S. I checked in with Emerson's Doug Simmers, a global product manager in the Rosemount Analytical Combustion Gas business. Although alternative sources of energy...
Efficiently Operating and Optimizing Boiler Performance
Boilers remain a large source of energy consumption in most plants. Emerson's Bob Sabin, whom you may recall from many earlier energy management-related posts, has some great thoughts on a recent Plant Services magazine article. The article Boiler inspection and...
Reducing NOx through Combustion Optimization
If you're in the coal-fired power generation business, you may know that Coal-Gen 2009 is going on this week. During the conference, a Midwest power producer and the Emerson Power & Water Solutions team gave a joint presentation on combustion optimization....
More Efficient Combustion Begins With Better Measurement
Last week at the ISA Expo in Houston, I sat in on a great session featuring Emerson's Ed Bailey, as well as folks from Siemens, Ametek and a private consultant with years of experience with Dow Corning. The session was entitled, Energy Management Issues for Process...
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