Across the energy supply chain bulk petroleum storage terminals play an important role in managing supply and demand. A critical safety function is to prevent an overfill condition in each of the storage tanks. Another critical function is to manage the pressure...
Michael Calaway
Bulk Liquids Storage Pressure Control and Overfill Prevention
You only have to watch accident investigation videos such as the U.S. Chemical Safety Board's Filling Blind video to understand the importance of pressure control and overfill prevention strategies for storage tanks in oil & gas liquids production, refining and...
Position Feedback for Refinery Manually Operated Valves
Sometimes a good discussion occurs among experts in a collaboration application within the Emerson firewall. Today's post is an example. Emerson's Jonas Berge was asking the global community of consultants and interested parties in refining about the manually operated...
Working Monitor Pressure Regulators in Fuel Gas Pressure Control
Fuel gas drives the boilers, fired heaters, generators, compressors and more in many process manufacturing and production operations. Accurately controlling fuel gas pressure is important for optimum combustion and overall energy efficiency. I received a draft of an...
Interactive Demonstration of Pressure Regulators in Action
Controlling the pressure levels is one of the challenges many instrumentation and automation engineers face. Pressure regulators are often used for this task, since they are self-regulating and don't require a control loop connected to the plant distributed control...
Basics of Flame Arrestor Technology
In process operations with combustible gases, flame arrestors are devices that help mitigate the risk of combustion. Wikipedia defines these devices: A flame arrester (also spelled arrestor), deflagration arrester,[1] or flame trap[2] is a device that stops fuel...
Refinery and Chemical Plant Pressure Regulator Applications
Pressure regulators play an important role in process operations. Wikipedia describes their operation: A pressure regulator's primary function is to match the flow of gas through the regulator to the demand for gas placed upon the system. If the load flow decreases,...
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