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...
I've always held a fascination for offshore oil and gas production. It was my first job out of school as a newly minted Electrical Engineer working as a systems engineer out of New Orleans. Technologies have advanced quite a bit since that time back in the mid-to-late...
Emerson's Cathy Ershen and Jim Elchook shared a case study on geothermal power generation. Their abstract: H2S abatement may be required to meet local environmental regulations for a geothermal plant. At Calpine's Geysers, a number of the operating power plants have...
Level measurement can be tricky, especially when the fluid being measured has changing density and specific gravity. Emerson's Cathy Ershen alerted me to a paper she, Emerson's Pat Carroll and Calpine's Anthony Derenia had published at the Geothermal Library. The...
For oil & gas, chemical, petrochemical, and pharmaceutical producers, measuring levels in tanks is an important component for inventory management. I saw a write up by Emerson's Kevin Cullen that describes how level measurement is not only important for inventory...
Recently we've had a few level measurement-related posts--one on a refinery desalter vessel application and another on guided wave radar setup, calibration, and diagnostics. To continue on this theme, I've discovered an article, Determining the level best in radar...
One of my U.K.-based colleagues pointed a great article my way, Defining and refining process radar level, in the November Control Engineering Europe magazine. Unfortunately, the article is not viewable online unless you subscribe to site--so I don't have a link for...
A colleague pointed me to a recent ConnectingIndustry.com article, Taking wireless level data acquisition to HART. Emerson's Catrine Bengtsson shared her expertise for this article. Many plants have legacy control systems with analog input (AI) and analog output (AO)...
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