I was in Europe at the end of last year meeting with many of our European subject matter experts. Two of whom were Emerson's Ebru Yıldız and Maurizio De Francesco. They recently collaborated to share a great customer success story about the Poliport Kimya terminal in...
Terminal Automation
Improving Bulk Liquids Storage Terminal Management
A safe, reliable and efficient bulk liquids storage terminal requires effective order execution. As part of a terminal management system, the execution of these orders must consider scheduling, asset and use management, process control, safety instrumented functions...
Terminal Automation Solutions Webinar
Update: A recorded version of this webinar is now available. Storage terminals are an integral part of the supply chain for hydrocarbon products to connect producers with consumers. With the vastness of new oil & gas production discoveries brought on by the shale...
RFID Tagging for Materials Movements
Some of the technologies making the Internet of Things (IoT) possible include WirelessHART, radio-frequency identification (RFID), near field communication, barcodes, QR codes and digital watermarking. I mention this because many process operations require material...
Wireless Applications in Terminal Operations
Increasing shale oil and gas production in the U.S. is increasing the need for storage tanks to hold it. One example as highlighted in a recent Bloomberg article, Houston Fills With Crude Oil That Can't Be Shipped Out: Storage tanks are filling as new pipelines carry...
Terminal Tanks Level Measurement Safety, Accuracy & Efficiency
Over on the Tank World blog is an interview with Emerson's Rajagopal Kittu, a tank gauging product manager in the Middle East region. Rajagopal was asked about the wireless technologies be used within terminals. He shared an example, valve position indication for...
Storage Tank Overspill Level Protection with Wireless Measurement
Sources of energy supply and shifts in demand increase the need for storage capacity to reduce imbalances. According to Industrial Info Resources: Oil & gas storage terminals for both imports and exports are springing up throughout the world as North America...
Faster Emergency Shutoff Valve for Propane Railcars
Once again, it's Chris Womack back with a guest post related to terminals. Just a quick mention here of the fast, new, but still memorably named Fisher N863 Snappy Joe Emergency Shutoff Railcar Valve (pdf). You see, for the past three decades or so, there's only been...
Truck Loading / Unloading with Micro Motion
Emerson's Todd Fortman and an engineer with a distributor shared an application story around truck loading and unloading. Their abstract:A Wisconsin based chemical distributor required an accurate and efficient truck loading and unloading solution. With over fifty...
How SIOT Upgraded Its Tank-Level Measurement Inexpensively Without Sacrificing Function
Here's another guest post by me, Chris Womack. Custody transfer is today's topic—specifically, improving level and temperature measurement of crude oil for custody transfer, while minimizing cost and disturbances to current operations. Even more specifically, when...
Bringing Terminals up to Date with the Newest API 2350 Standard
Hi—Chris Womack here again. In today's guest post, I'm back to talking about overfill protection and terminals. Specifically, I'm discussing a recent presentation that Emerson Global Sales Manager Johan Sandberg delivered to around 200 people at the June 4...
Detecting Floating Roof Tilt
In an earlier post, Avoiding Dangerous Conditions through Tank Floating Roof Level Monitoring, we highlighted how technology can assist in providing early warning for abnormal situations such as roof tilt in tank farms. I received an email question: …so when the roof...
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