I chatted briefly with Emerson's Patrick Truesdale when he was in Austin the other day. You may recall Patrick from several energy efficiency-related posts. He shared with me that he had a couple of presentations that he'd be giving at Automation Week in Houston,...
regulatory compliance
Questions and Clarifications on Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rules
I caught up with Emerson's Tom O'Banion to get the latest on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Mandatory Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Reporting Rule. Tom is the Director of the chemical industries in the Micro Motion Coriolis Flow & Density...
The Benefits Side of Regulatory Compliance
As the politics of greenhouse gas emissions in Washington and other capitals around the world continue to unfold, process manufacturers must continue to meet the regulatory mandates that come their way. They are also challenged to improve safety, security, and their...
EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rules and Flow Measurement
You only have to do a Google News search on EPA greenhouse gas reporting rules to know this is a large issue on the minds of U.S. process manufacturers. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released a mandate, 40 CFR Part 98 requiring the monitoring and...
Managing Recipe Process Definitions and Manual Processes
One of my Google blog search RSS feeds on batch processes alerted me to an article, The New Recipe for Pharma Success. It describes how many Life Sciences manufacturers use low-tech tools like spreadsheets, flow charts, and other unstructured documents to create and...
Advances in pH Modeling and Control Paper
ModelingAndControl.com's Greg McMillan and Solutia's Mark Sowell will be presenting at the upcoming ISA 54th International Instrumentation Symposium. Their paper, Advances in pH Modeling and Control, describes the use of embedded simulation, coined "Virtual Plant" and...
Preparing for Expected Growth in Nuclear Power Plants
My spy utility, WatchThatPage, alerted me to another good article, this time on the Fisher control valves and regulators area of the Emerson website. The article, Getting ready for the nuclear renaissance, from the April issue of Valve World magazine, features Bill...
Technology and Technical Experience Applying Safety-Related Systems
A colleague recently pointed me to a Manufacturing Business Technology article, Red alert: Increase in process automation heightens need for safety-related systems. The article points to a recent Frost & Sullivan study which predicts the market for safety-related...
pH Control Rules of Thumb, Facts and Humor
Emerson technologist and ModelingAndControl.com blogger, Greg McMillan, coauthors with Solutia's Mark Sowell an article, Virtual Control of Real PH in the November issue of Control magazine. The wonderful thing about Greg's writing is that it seems to always include...
Using Reconditioned Equipment in Hazardous Areas
In an earlier post, I discussed maintaining compliance of hazardous area certified equipment, from a paper given by Emerson safety consultant, Bob Baker. At the recent AIChE Spring National Meeting Process Plant Safety Symposium, Bob gave an updated paper, Safety...
Applying a Structured Methodology to PAT Initiatives
In a recent Pharmaceutical Processing magazine article, PAT Searches for its Identity, author Bikash Chatterjee discusses the seemingly slow pace of Process Analytical Technology (PAT) implementations. The article states: What the FDA has provided is a bold chance for...
Maintaining Compliance of Hazardous Area Certified Equipment
OK, you've done all the engineering, installation and commissioning and have field electrical and electronic equipment that is certified for the hazardous location in which it operates. In North America, this equipment has been tested and approved to appropriate codes...
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