In an article from the Refiner’s Guide to Digital Transformation and Top Quartile Performance, Emerson’s Tim Olsen shares ways for refiners to embrace new strategies and technologies that reduce their personnel’s exposure to hazardous environments and materials—and integrate more accurate, reliable, and regulatory-compliant process equipment to enhance personnel and site safety.
For manufacturing processes with hazardous substances that are combustible or can cause harm to people and property, flame and gas detection systems are often used as part of the risk mitigation strategy. This 44-minute video, Rosemount Flame and Gas Layers of...
Real-time analyzers play an important role in many process manufacturing operations. Some examples include natural gas custody transfer, combustion efficiency monitoring, combustion emissions component analysis, flowing fluid compositional analysis and more. Not only...
At the Emerson Exchange conference in Austin, Emerson's Sean McLeskey presented Fixed Gas and Flame Detection Best Practices. His abstract: Many industrial processes involve dangerous gases and vapors: flammable, toxic, or both. With the different sensing technologies...
Process manufacturers with hazardous areas in their process are responsible for the safety of the process through the IEC 61511 safety lifecycle—from initial design through decommissioning. Flame monitoring is often an important component in risk mitigation. Emerson's...
Furnaces, fired heaters, boilers and other process units requiring burners to manage are common across many process industries such as refining, chemicals, petrochemicals, and power. Recognizing and reacting to flame instability is critical since a flameout condition...
A reader who came upon one of the posts in the abnormal situation prevention category asked about ways early fault detection could reduce unplanned downtime in a refinery fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) unit. I turned to Emerson's Gary Hawkins, a consultant on the...
We discussed the energy efficiency and other opportunities with fired heaters in past posts. I caught wind of a presentation that Emerson's safety specialist, Chuck Miller will be giving at the upcoming March 21-25 AIChE Spring National Meeting and Global Congress on...
Some questions on flame detector reliability came my way the other day from a blog reader in the refining industry. I ran the questions by Emerson's Gary Hawkins, a refining industry consultant. Gary's first response was to point to the authoritative source for fired...
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