Let's start the week with a nice "how-to" video, How to Configure the Rosemount 3051S Plugged Impulse Line Diagnostic. Emerson's Megan Wiens shows how to configure the Rosemount 3051S Plugged Impulse Line Diagnostic to help prevent this plugging condition which can...
statistical process monitoring
Detecting Fired Heater Flame Loss
The AIChE 2013 Spring Meeting and 9th Global Congress on Process Safety is taking place this week down the road from me in San Antonio, Texas. I just heard the news from Emerson's Tim Olsen, Chair of the AIChE Fuels & Petrochemicals Division, that a paper on...
Improving Refinery Operations through Technology
For producers of commodity products, profitability primarily comes from operational excellence—that is optimizing costs to run the process as efficiently as possible. In the U.K-based PTQ article, Refinery operations gain from advances in digital automation, Emerson's...
How to Incorporate Statistical Process Monitoring
Statistical Process Control (SPC) has long been applied in discrete manufacturing operations as a predictive diagnostic technology. Statistical Process Monitoring (SPM), the continuous process version of SPC, has been applied less often as highlighted by Emerson's Tom...
View, Trend, and Configure Advanced Pressure Diagnostics
Emerson's Tom Wallace shared some new templates available in the DeltaV control system version 11 or newer to better understand and access advanced diagnostics from smart pressure devices. His abstract [hyperlink added to article]:Advanced pressure diagnostics use...
Early Detection of Distillation Column Flooding Conditions
The distillation process is one of the most common means of separating two or more components from a fluid. Ever handy Wikipedia defines it: Distillation is a method of separating mixtures based on differences in volatilities of components in a boiling liquid mixture....
Detecting Loop Electrical Integrity Issues
Advanced diagnostics are improving our lives in many ways from healthcare to transportation. And in our world of process automation, they are fundamentally changing the way we operate and manage our plants. In an earlier post, A High-Speed, Statistical View for Better...
Celebrating 10 Years of the Rosemount 3051S in Action
The old cliché, "time flies when you're having fun" applies to the many Emerson folks who had a hand in the development, launch, and widespread use of the Rosemount 3051S Series of pressure, DP [differential pressure] level, and DP flow transmitters. Congratulations...
Simplifying Access to Abnormal Condition Detection Diagnostics
I'm always in the hunt for stories to tell, and had a chance hallway meeting with Emerson's Tom Wallace when he was in town a few weeks back. You may recall Tom from some of our posts on HART, Foundation fieldbus, EDDL, and FDT. Some of these posts generated quite a...
Avoiding Flameout and Shutdown in Burner Management Applications
Furnaces, fired heaters, boilers and other process units requiring burners to manage are common across many process industries such as refining, chemicals, petrochemicals, and power. Recognizing and reacting to flame instability is critical since a flameout condition...
Foundation Fieldbus India Presentations
I received a note from Emerson's Jonas Berge of a recent Foundation fieldbus (FF) General Assembly meeting in Mumbai, India. It was their largest gathering of process automation professionals to date. Jonas shared with me that India has an ever-increasing process...
Shifting from Time-Based to Condition-Based Maintenance
You may recall Emerson's Bill Zhou from his demo video pieces here on the blog. I told him to be on the lookout for unscrupulous talent agents who'll want to whisk him away to Hollywood. Bill pointed me to a HART Communications Foundation announcement of Mitsubishi...
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