Piping and vessel corrosion and erosion typically occur from the inside out, making it difficult to spot problems without some type of ongoing material thickness measurement program. A piping or vessel breach can lead to disastrous consequences, especially in processes with toxic or flammable materials. Traditionally, the maintenance staff has performed periodic manual measurements with […]
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 Italy’s SIOT (Società Italiana per l’Oleodotto Transalpino S.p.A.) sought to update the aging radar-based level gauges that monitored its 32 […]
The promise of harvesting energy for wireless devices attracted me to this Emerson Exchange workshop. The abstract: This presentation will highlight how vibration energy harvester (VEH) can be utilized as the primary power source for traditional “battery only” powered Emerson wireless transmitters used for process monitoring within a multitude of industrial environments. All aspects of […]
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