Emerson's Eric Beltz and Shelby Traverso teamed up on an Emerson Exchange presentation, Enhanced Oil Recovery Improved with Wireless Conditioning Orifice Technology. Here is their presentation abstract: A Middle Eastern petroleum company has improved its enhanced oil...
Emerson's Bob Sabin, Tim Badger and Scott Pettigrew teamed up on the presentation, Fix Tough Measurement Problems to Improve Boiler Operation. Their abstract: While boilers are crucial to plant/mill business results, many times their performance is lacking. Poor...
If you're like me, a technical article that begins, "How to…" attracts me like a bear to honey. And so it was, when I saw the ControlGlobal.com article, Managing vapor space-how to accomplish total tank management. Control, Control Design and Industrial Networking...
More and more we see knowledge exchange occur through social networks including LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Google+. Here's an example of a tweet from this summer asking about the removal process for a Rosemount flowmeter. [tweet id="620778291612545024"...
In an earlier post, Identifying Components then Optimizing Industrial Energy Consumption, we discussed how energy optimization initiatives were affected by what could be measured. Emerson's Jonas Berge added a great comment to that post, which I will share here to...
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, industrial manufacturers are larger energy consumers than the transportation, residential and commercial sectors. The industrial sector accounts for around 30 trillion BTUs of energy consumed annually....
The latest Innovations in Process Control publication by the Emerson team in Europe has an article on where additional measurements can help identify opportunities to reduce energy consumption and improve operations. For readers who have English as a second language,...
Embedded diagnostics in smart instrumentation has played a role in safer, more efficient and reliable plants for decades in the process industries. As the power of the microcontrollers at the heart of these intelligent devices grows, so do the reliability, accuracy...
Last year around this time, the fourth edition of API Standard 682 - Pumps—Shaft Sealing Systems for Centrifugal and Rotary Pumps was released. This standard: …specifies requirements and gives recommendations for sealing systems for centrifugal and rotary pumps used...
Author: Douglas Morris Improving heat rate is something that most power generators consistently look to do because it translates directly into lower fuel costs. In India, there are government legislated heat rate targets for plants where financial penalties or rewards...
Terminals are instrumental in the supply chain for holding moving oil and petrochemical products. An oil depot or tank farm: …typically has tankage, either above ground or underground, and gantries (framework) for the discharge of products into road tankers or other...
A U.S. Department of Energy study on pump life cycle costs notes that maintenance and energy costs make up the vast majority of lifecycle costs. Pumps that are critical to the operation of the process typically are installed with online condition-based monitoring...
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