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 burning...
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The Advantages of an Integrated Solution for a Fully Automated Terminal
Emerson's Chris Womack highlights a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) project in Mexico in today's guest post. In liquid petroleum gas terminals featuring partial automation, several systems control the plant's filling racks, custody transfer areas, and safety systems....
What to See at the Offshore Technology Conference 2012
This is a big week for some of the major process manufacturing sectors. The Offshore Technology Conference (OTC2012) is going on through tomorrow in Houston, Texas and Interphex 2012 for the Life Sciences industry through tomorrow in New York City. These are...
The Longest Heated and Insulated Oil Pipeline in Action
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 provided a custody transfer metering system for the...
Upsizing Coriolis High Capacity Flow Measurement
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 a high...
Electronic Flow Management System Design Fundamentals
In the Emerson Exchange 365 community, I saw a new thread, Fundamentals of Electronic Flow Meter Design, Application & Implementation. It included a download link to a whitepaper with the same name by Emerson's Jim Griffeth. Jim is a member of the Remote...
Emerson Exchange 2011 – 7 Billion US Dollars per Year of Custody Transfer for the World Longest Heated and Insulated Pipeline
Emerson's Trilochan Gupta presented US$ 7 Billion/Year of Custody Transfer for the World's Longest Heated and Insulated Pipeline. His abstract: Cairn Energy India Ltd (CEIL) developed a Crude Oil License Block RJ-ON-90/1 in the state of Rajasthan, India. The crude oil...
Certified Mass-Based Marine Bunker Measurement
I just saw in Neal Ingram's Micro Motion Community blog the news about marine bunker measurement shared at last week's 2011 Nor-Shipping Exhibition and Maritime Conference in Norway. This topic is something we highlighted a while back in a post, Accurate Measurement...
Day 2 from the Offshore Technology Conference
The Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) continues with a lot of action and energy if my OTC-related Twitter search is any indication. The Emerson team sent a bunch of pictures my way, and I've selected a dozen to pass along to you in a slide show: News from yesterday...
Radar Tank Gauging in Process Safety Applications
Online communities continue to grow and prosper in our world of process automation because they provide a peer-to-peer environment for problem solving. The DeltaV LinkedIn group is one that has had a steady growth in membership. In this group, a question was recently...
Custody Transfer Flow Measurement
If you have custody transfer applications in your plant and you're not already an expert on the subject, there's a great Control Engineering magazine article, Custody Transfer: Flowmeter as Cash Register. It's written by Emerson's Emerie (a.k.a. Butch) Dupuis and...
Plant Metering and Competency
Metering imports, exports, and allocations is a serious matter for plants. If the metering systems in your plant under-measure custody transfer of intermediates and final products to another business, profits are lost. Over-measure and your business shortchanges your...
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