For oil and gas production in shale regions, what are some ways technologies can optimize capital costs and ongoing production performance?
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Increasing Combined Cycle Gas Turbine Efficiency and Reliability
The electrical power generation mix continues to shift to increasing natural gas usage due to growing supplies from shale gas production. In a Power article, How to Increase Power Plant Asset Reliability Using Modern Digital Technology, Emerson's Juan Panama describes...
Wireless Multi-Rate Model Predictive Control
Communications networks have become pervasive at many levels in control system architectures. As wireless networks and the Industrial Internet of Things become more common, the complexity and security requirements for these networks grows. Emerson's Felipe Fakir...
Installing a WirelessHART Device Remote Antenna
Let's end the week with another great "how to" style video, How to Install a WirelessHART Remote Antenna. Remote antennas can be used with wireless devices and gateways to get out of the way of obstructions which may block the wireless signal from forming a mesh...
Adding Wireless Level Switches for Storage Tank Overfill Prevention
Storage tanks holding volatile fluids must have reliable level measurements to avoid unsafe overfill conditions. A Control Engineering Asia article, Wireless vibrating fork technology enables Hengyang Petrochemical to implement cost-effective overfill prevention...
4 Steps in Improving Operational Performance with Wireless Instrumentation
Standards-based wireless instrumentation for the process industries recently hit its 10-year anniversary. These devices are being used to fill in measurement gaps to improve safety, reliability and efficiency. In a Plant Engineering article, Implementing wireless...
Monitoring for Motor Reliability and Energy Efficiency with Wireless Power Meters
Equipment monitoring plays a large role in a manufacturer's reliability program. The health of this equipment can also affect energy consumption levels. For motor-driven pumps, fans, compressors, etc., monitoring the electrical energy usage provides an additional...
Simple Apps and Wireless Sensors for Effective Monitoring
Effective monitoring requires good measurement, effective analytics to help understand the measurement, and clear guidance for action to resolve the issue. For manufacturing and production facilities already instrumented for process control, adding measurements can be...
Improving Plant Staff Effectiveness
Manufacturers across many industries continued to be pressured to be able to do more with fewer staff in their plants. Technologies have advanced to provide more measurements added more easily to be able to optimize the efforts of plant staff. In a Control Engineering...
Connectivity from Wireless Transmitters to Controllers via EthernetIP
For manufacturers in the discrete and hybrid manufacturing industries, packaging is an important part of their processes. For reliable and flexible operations connecting the information from the various packaging lines is important. Sensors with online diagnostics...
Monitoring Pressure Relief Devices
Effectively managing pressure in hydrocarbon-based production processes is critical from a safety, environmental and efficiency standpoint. Pressure relief devices (PRDs) are found throughout the production processing equipment. At last spring's 115th American Fuel...
Pharmaceutical Wireless Instrumentation Retrofits
Many industries have benefitted from the use of wireless instrumentation, but how about the pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturing industries? Are there applications which might improve the performance of their operations? In a Pharmaceutical Manufacturing article,...
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