Monitoring the composition of what's in an air mixture is important for many processes. Reasons may include detecting dangerous gasses for the safety of the plant personnel, getting the air-fuel ratio right for optimum combustion, or better understanding the mix of...
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Non-Contacting Radar Level Measurement Frequency Tradeoffs
Microwaves have many uses including communications, navigation, radar, radio astronomy, heating and power, and spectroscopy to name a few. For instrumentation and automation, radar level measurement works by emitting microwaves to measure distance. The first radar...
Accurate Piping Surface Temperature Measurement
We see the impact of the Internet of Things in our homes with devices like thermostats that we can control from our mobile devices. And we see it in industrial processes with the ever expanding variety of sensing devices to improve the safety, efficiency and...
Adding Wireless Sensors for Health, Safety and Environment
Wireless communications have changed everything from the way we listen to music to the way information is collected and disseminated. For process manufacturing and production plants, it means more the process can be sensed beyond traditional monitoring and control...
Rugged Downhole Pressure and Temperature Measurement
I saw a recent news item, Emerson introduces digital, +175°C, high-precision pressure and temperature transmitter designed for corrosive harsh downhole measurements, and wanted to find out more about the application for this technology. I caught up with Emerson's Joe...
Avoiding Corrosion while Increasing Urea Production
Author: James Gremillion One of the key problems urea plants face is corrosion. The corrosion problem rests with one chemical produced by the urea process, ammonium carbamate. Ammonium carbamate is produced by reacting ammonia and carbon dioxide at high pressures (up...
Accurate Multiphase Flow Measurement
Many industries, such as oil & gas production, require flow measurement for fluids with gas and liquid phases. In this quick 1:49 video, 5700 with Advanced Phase Measurement, Emerson's Kevin Borden describes how advanced phase measurement (APM) technology provides...
Automatic Gauging for Onshore Oil and Gas Small Lease Tanks
Author: Michael Machuca Manual tank gauging is very prevalent in onshore oil and gas facilities located in the United States. It is viewed as a low-cost, effective solution to manage tank inventory and custody transfer measurements. The API 18.1 standard governs the...
Guided Wave Radar Level Measurement in Vessel Bypass Chambers
Accurately measuring levels in vessels is important in many aspects—safety, efficiency, reliability and availability to name a few. Mechanical level measurement devices historically have been failure prone and have required regular maintenance. Guided wave radar (GWR)...
Improving Safe Operations with Wireless Vibrating Fork Level Switches
Level measurements can be some of the most important measurements for the safe operations of applications such as tank farms, boilers, pump control and more. Level measurement is a key part of monitoring and control strategies as well as safety instrumented functions....
Natural Gas Liquids Mass Measurement
Natural gas liquids (NGLs) are composed of many hydrocarbons including ethane, propane, butane, pentane and natural gasoline. Measuring the volume of this hydrocarbon mixture required for its sale is challenging because of the impact of pressure, temperature and how...
Gas Chromatograph Installation Considerations
Gas chromatographs (GCs) are used to analyze natural gas streams to identify the hydrocarbon components in order to determine the energy content of the gas. Natural gas is typically sold based on the amount of this energy delivered. The quantity of energy delivered is...
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