Tamara Tursijan shares how a global manufacturer with aggressive corporate goals lowering their carbon footprint, enabling low-carbon energy solutions and advocating for climate action. This manufacturer improved energy efficiency by working with the Emerson team to use wireless acoustic sensors to “listen” to each of the steam traps for leaks and failure conditions.
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Optimizing Food and Beverage Steam Usage
At the Emerson Exchange Americas Virtual Series, Emerson’s Josh Friesz shared ways to monitor steam traps to help assure quality production in Food & Beverage applications.
Demonstrating Steam Trap Monitoring
Monitoring steam traps has been the focus of many posts. I was alerted to a new demonstration video that I wanted to share, Steam Trap Product Demo. It shows not only the monitoring technology but also how the steam traps can be monitored remotely by Emerson services...
Reducing Excess Energy Costs and Streamlining Maintenance Practices
Steam traps are automatic valves that require ongoing maintenance. Failed steam traps represent a source of energy waste, resulting in poor steam quality as well as increased fuel consumption and emissions. Continuous monitoring can address these issues.
Improving Energy Efficiency and Reliability with Wireless Measurements
At the 2018 Emerson Exchange conference, Emerson's John Hillencamp and Brian Joe joined a specialty chemical manufacturer to share how they saved energy costs and improved reliability with wireless measurements and the Plantweb digital ecosystem. John opened the...
Improving Pharmaceutical and Biotech Plant Utility Performance
For pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers, the use of steam, heating and air conditioning systems, water and other utilities are an important part of the manufacturing process. Efficient and reliable operations for these plant utilities is very important. In a...
Avoiding the Impact of Steam Trap Failures
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....
Internet of Things and Emerson
One of the discussions at the recent Emerson 2015 Investor Conference was a presentation by Emerson's Charlie Peters on the Internet of Things and Emerson (beginning on slide 27). I wanted to share some of the ideas and concepts Charlie shares as we advance forward....
Meeting the European Union Energy Efficiency Directive
March 7 is fast approaching if you want to get the 200 Euro discount to the April 1-3 Emerson Exchange conference in Stuttgart, Germany. One of the presentations you'll want to catch is on the implications of the EU Energy Efficiency Directive. Emerson's Steve Offer...
Energy Optimization and Wireless Steam Traps
Many process manufacturing, oil & gas processing, and other industrial processes were designed in an era of inexpensive energy. This has not been the case for many years now. Emerson's Danny Vandeput has written a South African Instrument and Control article,...
How Efficient is Your Steam System?
Emerson's Steffen Terreblanche highlights ways to improve your plant's energy efficiency by continuously monitoring your steam traps. As the world becomes a "smaller" place and process manufacturers are forced to compete in a global market place, we see more and more...
Adding Missing Measurements in Refineries
We're now about six weeks away from the September 30-Oct 4 Emerson Exchange conference in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas area. In fact, today, August 15, 2013 is the deadline for Early Bird registration—so if you were considering joining us, you'll want to act today for...
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