At the Emerson Exchange Brussels conference, Emerson's Christian Grossenbacher gave an update on flow measurement advancements as well as new service capabilities to support process manufacturers and producers. Here's the abstract of the session: Join us for a session...
While the Emerson Exchange conference unfolds this week in Brussels, the Tank World Expo is happening in Dubai. I wanted to share this post from Rajagopal-Kittu from this event. Author: Rajagopal-Kittu Whether you own a small tank farm or are managing huge, multiple...
I did a quick Google search on the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and it yield about 588,000 search results. You can see quite a bit about on the web and across the social networks that discuss process automation-related topics. But what is future and what can...
Moving and storing hydrocarbons and other volatile fluids in tank farms and bulk liquid storage facilities require well-designed and functioning measurement and safety systems. In a Tank Storage magazine article, The Critical First Line Of Defence Against Overfills,...
Take a moment and ask yourself: How much does my company spend every year on chemicals? For most, chemical injection is a sunk cost of production–it's a cost that's hard to tackle because few of us are chemists. Both the dosage of chemical and the amount spent on...
We opened this week with a look at how the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is changing the traditional view of information flow through the process manufacturing and production enterprise as defined by the Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture developed in the...
A Pharmaceutical Manufacturing magazine study revealed that pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers were challenged to achieve batch after batch repeatability. I came across a recently published whitepaper, Consistency and Repeatability Through Accurate Measurements....
For many of us, purchasing or receiving the gift of a fitness tracker ushered us into the Internet of Things era. These devices not only collect and report on the number of steps we take each day, but also depending on their sophistication, the quality of our sleep,...
Update: Download the whitepaper, Achieve Accurate Process Temperature Measurement with Surface Sensor Innovation for more on the Rosemount X-well technology. Original post: In an earlier post, Online Calculation Tool for Thermowell Installations, we shared ways to...
The exchange of crude oil between seller and buyer is known as custody transfer. A simple example of this is the gas pump where you fill up your car. The pump must accurately measure the fuel and determine/collect payment for the amount transferred into your gas tank....
Author: Danny Vandeput Let's face it, the world has changed in a dramatic way. 10 years ago, people barely knew what "The Cloud" was (except for looking up in the sky and trying to imagine of seeing a sheep, a horse or something else exotic). Today many of us have...
I received this question on density measurement and wanted to share what I found out. I understand all dP flow measurements are affected by the density of the fluid (liquid or gas) flowing through orifice, annubar, pitot tube, etc. Most dP measurements in process...
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