As staff in process manufacturing and production facilities shrink due to economic or demographic conditions, on-site engineers, operations and maintenance personnel must increase their breadth of skills at the expense of skill depth. In a recent post, Monitoring...
Final Control & Regulate
Online Pressure Regulator CAD Drawing Resource
For process manufacturers and producers, regulating pressure throughout the process is important for safety, efficiency and reliability. We've highlighted the important role of pressure regulators in numerous posts. During the front end engineering design phase of a...
Control Valve and Control Performance at Instrumentation Symposium
Instrumentation and automation professionals in the oil & gas industries along the Texas Gulf Coast have an excellent resource in the annual Instrumentation and Automation Symposium for the Process Industry. The 71st edition of this 3-day symposium will be held...
Positioner-Only Configuration on Digital Valve Controller
I wanted to share a quick question and answer in an email exchange in case you may have a similar question sometime down the road. The original question was: The Project is about installing two manual Fisher control valves but we want to modify it to include obtaining...
Application Guide for Natural Gas Pressure Regulators
I saw on my LinkedIn home page that my friends who manage Fisher Regulators have released the Natural Gas Technologies Application Guide – Edition VII, which is now available online in eBook format… very nice! This application guide is designed to help you quickly and...
Vibration Monitoring of Control Valves Prevents Unplanned Shutdowns
Emerson's Shawn Anderson teamed with a recycled paper mill staff member and their local business partner on an Emerson Exchange presentation, Vibration Monitoring of Control Valves Prevents Unplanned Shutdowns. Here is the presentation abstract: Two control valves in...
Improving Offshore Platform Waterflood System Availability
Emerson's Ryan McIntosh presented, A Deepwater Oil and Gas Platform Realizes an Improvement in Availability. His abstract: A customer was having issues with maintaining control over their waterflood system due to valve failures. This application, key to optimal...
Metal-Seated Ball Valve Applications
Emerson's Shawn Fagen, Zach Stahlin and Mark Nymeyer teamed up on an Emerson Exchange presentation, Heavy Metal - Turn up your Z500 Knowledge to Eleven! I was expecting to need earplugs but instead found out that their abstract was: This session is an introduction for...
Position Feedback for Refinery Manually Operated Valves
Sometimes a good discussion occurs among experts in a collaboration application within the Emerson firewall. Today's post is an example. Emerson's Jonas Berge was asking the global community of consultants and interested parties in refining about the manually operated...
Mounting Digital Valve Controller Howto Video
It has been a busy week as many of the experts around Emerson Process Management here in Austin to work on ways to improve their participation in the social channels. I wanted to share a "how to" video, Mounting a Fisher FIELDVUE DVC6200 Digital Valve Controller to a...
Working Monitor Pressure Regulators in Fuel Gas Pressure Control
Fuel gas drives the boilers, fired heaters, generators, compressors and more in many process manufacturing and production operations. Accurately controlling fuel gas pressure is important for optimum combustion and overall energy efficiency. I received a draft of an...
Controlling Pressure when Testing Oil and Gas Well Bore Cement
For those not familiar with the oil & gas drilling process, the cement that is between the well bore and outside of the well casing is critical to the overall integrity of the well. PetroWiki defines its role: Cement is used to hold casing in place and to prevent...
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