Discrepancies between actual operating conditions and initial design specifications often lead to equipment problems, requiring coordinated and prompt action from plant personnel and partners. K+S Potash Canada faced such challenges with their control valves in a new plant near Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
Modern digital valve controllers with onboard valve monitoring and diagnostics reduce unplanned outages and increase profitability. End users choosing controllers should carefully evaluate the features offered to take advantage of the significant advancements seen in the last few decades.
During the Emerson Exchange EMEA 2024 in Düsseldorf, Stefano de Cillis, CTO at Proton Ventures, provided a presentation focused on the storage and handling of ammonia, including its decomposition back into hydrogen. Proton Ventures develops green projects and...
Regional carbon capture and storage hubs enable multiple CO2 emitters to share infrastructure and pipelines, thereby reducing costs. Advanced automation solutions can increase the operational efficiency and enhance the economic viability of these projects.
During the Emerson Exchange EMEA 2024, Chand Basha Chittoor, staff engineer E&A at the SABIC Centre of Excellence in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, informed delegates how the company optimized turnaround planning and execution using control valve diagnostics.
ECI is one of the independent businesses in the Emerson Impact Partner Network. They are the industrial automation and process control partner for manufacturers and producers in the United States’ western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, western Maryland, and Ohio...
Valve controllers play a vital role in industrial processes, ensuring that control valves are positioned accurately under changing process conditions. Building upon fifty years of valve controller improvements, the new Fisher™ FIELDVUE™ DVC7K digital valve controller...
Natural gas pipelines tend to produce loud noise as gas flows through pressure regulating valves. This is usually not a problem in isolated locations, but when neighborhoods develop or expand nearby, it becomes a pressing issue. Our article in the January 2024 issue...
Valves are critical in many power industry applications such as boiler feedwater & recirculation, superheat attemperation, turbine bypass, and more. In this YouTube Fisher Valves & Instruments Power Industry Application Series, you can learn about the role...
As climate change progresses, reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, particularly carbon dioxide (CO2), is critical. Spurred by government subsidies and mandates, CO2 sequestration projects are underway across the globe. My December 2023 Automation.com article,...
Control and on-off valves carry out critical functions in process plants and facilities worldwide, so their performance and condition must be closely monitored. New digital valve controllers provide this functionality, along with other tasks, improving the operation and uptime of these valves. These controllers also enable optimization of maintenance activities by predicting failures well in advance, allowing for proactive instead of reactive actions.
Emerson’s Fisher Instruments has been producing its Wizard pneumatic controllers since the 1940s, refining and revamping them every 20 years or so. Along the way, the company produced its electro-pneumatic controllers, and more recently developed its Fisher™ FIELDVUE™ digital pneumatic controllers (DPC). In all, Emerson estimates there are more than 1 million of its pneumatic controllers presently operating.
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