A Process Engineering magazine article, Level best, poses a question: Has the deployment of level measurement devices changed in the wake of the Buncefield [UK] disaster? The article's author connects with several instrumentation suppliers including Emerson's...
IEC 62591
Using Wireless Throttling Valves in Column Control
Emerson's Kurtis Jensen and Terry Blevins teamed up with the University of Texas at Austin's Stephen Briggs to control a column with wireless valves. Their abstract: The control performance that may be achieved using wireless throttling valves has been evaluated...
How Expanding an Existing Wireless Network to Over 1km Cut Project Time and Cost
Emerson's B.J. Peltier and Jennifer Hejl of Emerson local business partner Puffer-Sweiven team up to tell the story of a petrochemical manufacturer's need to extend their wireless network. Their abstract describes the facility as having: …a remote water treatment...
Could Technology Help Prevent Costly Environmental Incidents?
Author: Juan Carlos Bravo Recently, a major mining company spilled around 40,000 cubic meters of copper sulfate acid solution into the Bacanuchi and Sonora rivers, in the Mexican state of Sonora. This spill led authorities to shut down wells in the affected areas,...
Answers for Heat Exchanger Fouling Questions
One only has to do a Twitter search on the hashtag #Reliability to see how often the topic is discussed from a process manufacturing and production standpoint. The reliability of plant assets affects overall production levels, quality, safety, environmental...
Extending Measurement Device Stability to 15 Years
One of the benefits of advancing technologies can be increased reliability. For measurement devices in the processing industries, these technology improvements can mean increased operations and maintenance productivity through extended calibration intervals, improved...
WirelessHART Join Key Interoperability and Problem Solving
Author: Craig Abbott Recently, a customer using a non-Emerson hand held communicator ran into problems during FAT. None of the devices they had configured would connect to the Rosemount 1420 gateway whilst other devices, configured by our technician using a 475 hand...
Light Tight Oil and Heat Exchanger Fouling
I received an email of a new whitepaper, Heat Exchanger Challenges with Light Tight Crude! written by Emerson's Tim Olsen. Tim is a consultant on our refining industry team and has shared his expertise in numerous refining-related posts here on the blog. The rapid...
Avoid Pumps Causing Unplanned Shutdowns
Update and bump: A recorded version of this webinar is now available. Visit here for a listing of other recorded & archived webinars. Original post: An unplanned shutdown can ruin your whole day, or two, or three… Not only do these unplanned shutdowns have impact on...
Wireless Applications in Life Sciences
Author: Gary Mitchell More and more process manufacturers, including Life Sciences, if not already embracing it, are considering the use of wireless technology in their facilities. Wireless technology can range from wireless networks enabling mobile operators, to...
Wireless Applications in Terminal Operations
Increasing shale oil and gas production in the U.S. is increasing the need for storage tanks to hold it. One example as highlighted in a recent Bloomberg article, Houston Fills With Crude Oil That Can't Be Shipped Out: Storage tanks are filling as new pipelines carry...
Business Critical Measurement Instrumentation-Second Layer of Automation
Measurement instrumentation has traditionally been used by process manufacturers to control their processes safely and reliably. This instrumentation may not be enough to operate the process as efficiently as possible. In a recent comment to one of my earlier posts,...
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