Let's end the week with another "how to" video on managing the totalizer function on Micro Motion 1700/2700 field & integral mount flow transmitter display panels. In this 3:22 video, How to Manage Totalizers Using the Display of the Micro Motion 1700/2700...
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Improving Power Plant Operations with Second-Level Automation
When many plants were built years ago, they were instrumented to provide what was required for safely manage the process. As time has passed, the requirements are far greater for efficiency, reliability and regulatory demands. In a Power Engineering International...
How to Rotate a Coriolis Flow and Density Meter Transmitter Display
When measuring the flow of a liquid, gas or slurry, Coriolis flow and density meter sensors will work in any installed orientation as long as the flow tubes remain full of process fluid. The preferred orientation, when this is not the case, is shown in this...
Improving Heat Rate with Better Measurements
For electrical power producers, the phrase "heat rate" refers to the efficiency of the power plant. It is defined as the thermal energy in divided by the electrical energy out. Emerson's Lydia Miller let me know about a new whitepaper, Using Automation to Improve...
Integrating Leak Detection and Custody Transfer for Pipeline Monitoring
Authors: Rossella Mimmi and Marc Buttler The importance of pipeline integrity is growing in the oil and gas industry. New regions of oil and gas production and growing demand are driving the construction of new pipelines and reversals of existing pipelines. Older...
Pipeline Management throughout the Lifecycle
This article, Throughout the Lifecycle, was first published in Oil & Gas Middle East magazine and is reposted here with permission. Sachin Tere, Business Development Manager, Flow Solutions – Emerson Process Management Pipeline management often poses a challenge...
Improving Refinery Operations with Wireless Measurements
The American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers annual meeting took place this past March in San Francisco. In a Hydrocarbon Processing magazine recap of day 3 from the conference, Emerson's Ed Schodowski shared ways to improve refinery performance in an article,...
Finding the Best Level Measurement for the Application
Many ways exist to measure level in industrial processes. At the recent Emerson Exchange conference in Brussels, Emerson's Ingemar Serneby teamed up with an instrument specialist with a food manufacturer to share a presentation, Finding the best level measurement...
Advanced Phase Measurement in Flow Meters
Measuring flow through a pipe can be challenging when liquid and gas phases are both present. For example, a production well's produced fluids with methane coming out of solution as the pressure drops. Or the gas leg of a three-phase production separator which may...
Managing Alarms on Micro Motion 1700 and 2700 Transmitters
For most people trying to learn how to do something new, showing tops reading. This is why short videos in YouTube and other video services continue to grow in popularity compared with long, step-by-step written procedures. Here on the blog, I have a growing list of...
Tips to Overcome Challenges in Product and Custody Transfers
Author: Sachin Tere Product and custody transfer applications are spread across the oil and gas industry, from the fields to the refineries, to transport vessels to storage tanks and terminals. Here are some problems that hinder you from achieving efficiency in fluid...
Moving Flow Meter Calibration On-Site
At the Emerson Exchange Brussels conference, Emerson's Jerome Desmoulieres co-presented with TEREOS, Flow Calibration On Site: How to maximize your turnaround. Their abstract: Turnarounds are more and more time limited. But production and quality departments' requests...
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