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  • Pressure Blog: Detect Compressor Surge By Measuring Outlet Pressure?

    Update: Greg has published a post, Checklist for Compressor Surge Control Tips which should give you some things to consider for your centrifugal and axial compressors. Orginal post: It’s great to questions from automation professionals from some of my posts built up over the years. A question came about one of my centrifugal compressor surge posts . I removed the proprietary elements of the question. For air…
  • Pressure Blog: Detect Compressor Surge By Measuring Outlet Pressure?

    Update: Greg has published a post, Checklist for Compressor Surge Control Tips which should give you some things to consider for your centrifugal and axial compressors. Orginal post: It’s great to questions from automation professionals from some of my posts built up over the years. A question came about one of my centrifugal compressor surge posts . I removed the proprietary elements of the question. For air…
  • Pressure Blog: Detect Compressor Surge By Measuring Outlet Pressure?

    Update: Greg has published a post, Checklist for Compressor Surge Control Tips which should give you some things to consider for your centrifugal and axial compressors. Orginal post: It’s great to questions from automation professionals from some of my posts built up over the years. A question came about one of my centrifugal compressor surge posts . I removed the proprietary elements of the question. For air…
  • Pressure Blog: Detect Compressor Surge By Measuring Outlet Pressure?

    Update: Greg has published a post, Checklist for Compressor Surge Control Tips which should give you some things to consider for your centrifugal and axial compressors. Orginal post: It’s great to questions from automation professionals from some of my posts built up over the years. A question came about one of my centrifugal compressor surge posts . I removed the proprietary elements of the question. For air…
  • Level Blog: Chamber-based Guided Wave Radar Level Measurement Best Practices

    Installation best practices are always a good thing to have when you need them. If you’re installing guided wave radar (GWR) transmitters in vessels with restrictions, then this article, Best Practices for Installing Guided Wave Radar Transmitters in...
  • Flow Blog: Pipeline Liquid Pressure Surge Relief

    If you’re in the business of transporting hydrocarbons through pipelines, you know that surge relief valves are often the last line of pipeline protection. Emerson’s Trilochan Gupta authored a recent Intech magazine article, Specifying surge relief valves...
  • Flow Blog: Liquefied Natural Gas Measurement Challenges

    When your company ships its products to your customers, wouldn’t you like to be able to shrink the volume 600 times to save on shipping costs? If you’re in the business of liquefied natural gas (LNG), that’s exactly what you do. And, with the increasing...
  • Level Blog: A new proven result video available for remote seal systems

    Our second proven result video is now available on YouTube! The video explains how the installation of a Rosemount Remote Seal System solved a significant measurement problem with a Direct-Contact Aftercooler (DCA) application for Praxair. Ernest Presto from Praxair discusses the application with Randy DeBrine. View the video here. www.youtube.com/watch
  • Pressure Blog: 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...
  • Pressure Blog: 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. Distillation is a unit operation , or a physical separation process, and not a chemical reaction . One of the things that can go awry is column…
  • Pressure Blog: 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. Distillation is a unit operation , or a physical separation process, and not a chemical reaction . One of the things that can go awry is column…
  • Pressure Blog: 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. Distillation is a unit operation , or a physical separation process, and not a chemical reaction . One of the things that can go awry is column…
  • Pressure Blog: 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. Distillation is a unit operation , or a physical separation process, and not a chemical reaction . One of the things that can go awry is column…
  • Flow Blog: Remotely Monitoring Marine Vessel Fuel Consumption

    We discussed the challenges in measuring bunker fuels on marine vessels in prior posts. Last week, you may have seen the news item Emerson introduces remote fuel consumption and bunkering monitoring system. The news from the release: Emerson Process Management...
  • Level Blog: Using radar technology to reliably and accurately measure the level of ammonia

    An interesting article by Sarah Parker looks at the difficulties when measuring levels of aqueous and anhydrous ammonia stored in vessels, and explains how radar technology provides a perfect solution for many of these applications. Read the article here: http://bit.ly/ammoniaarticle
  • Pressure Blog: Continuously Diagnosing the Instrumentation Electrical Loop

    My friends in Chanhassen have been hard at work on the usability front. I connected with Emerson’s Alexander Miller to find out what’s the latest with the Rosemount 3051 pressure transmitter. Alex pointed to two new innovative features — Local Operator...
  • Pressure Blog: Continuously Diagnosing the Instrumentation Electrical Loop

    My friends in Chanhassen have been hard at work on the usability front. I connected with Emerson’s Alexander Miller to find out what’s the latest with the Rosemount 3051 pressure transmitter . Alex pointed to two new innovative features — Local Operator Interface (LOI) and Power Advisory Diagnostic. I thought we might dig into the Power Advisory Diagnostic more closely in this post, come back, and look at the Local…
  • Pressure Blog: Continuously Diagnosing the Instrumentation Electrical Loop

    My friends in Chanhassen have been hard at work on the usability front. I connected with Emerson’s Alexander Miller to find out what’s the latest with the Rosemount 3051 pressure transmitter . Alex pointed to two new innovative features — Local Operator Interface (LOI) and Power Advisory Diagnostic. I thought we might dig into the Power Advisory Diagnostic more closely in this post, come back, and look at the Local…
  • Pressure Blog: Continuously Diagnosing the Instrumentation Electrical Loop

    My friends in Chanhassen have been hard at work on the usability front. I connected with Emerson’s Alexander Miller to find out what’s the latest with the Rosemount 3051 pressure transmitter . Alex pointed to two new innovative features — Local Operator Interface (LOI) and Power Advisory Diagnostic. I thought we might dig into the Power Advisory Diagnostic more closely in this post, come back, and look at the Local…
  • Pressure Blog: Continuously Diagnosing the Instrumentation Electrical Loop

    My friends in Chanhassen have been hard at work on the usability front. I connected with Emerson’s Alexander Miller to find out what’s the latest with the Rosemount 3051 pressure transmitter . Alex pointed to two new innovative features — Local Operator Interface (LOI) and Power Advisory Diagnostic. I thought we might dig into the Power Advisory Diagnostic more closely in this post, come back, and look at the Local…
  • Analytical Experts Blog: New Generation Chemical Plants and Gas Chromatography

    We’ve explored in several posts the impact shale gas is having on the U.S. oil and gas industry. A Processing magazine article, US chemical industry expansion will bring sophisticated technologies mainstream, explores its impact on the chemical industry...
  • Level Blog: Increasing safety, reducing shutdowns and increasing production on an FPSO vessel

    BP Exploration has replaced unreliable level transmitters previously used on a floating production, storage and off-loading (FPSO) vessel with Rosemount 5300 guided wave radars. The more accurate and reliable level readings from the 5300 Series GWR transmitters have helped BP Exploration increase safety, reduce shutdowns and increase production To read more, click here http://bit.ly/BPFPSO
  • Analytical Experts Blog: Optical Path Verification and Visual Integrity Testing Goes to the Next Level

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    Hi everyone. I’m Larry McGee and today I want to talk about a significant development in optical flame detection. Optical flame detectors have historically been fitted with a visual integrity (VI) test feature in order to detect the presence of accumulated...
  • Flow Blog: Compressed Natural Gas and Liquefied Natural Gas in China

    I heard from Emerson’s Major Chu, who writes the Chinese-language Emerson Flow blog, about a recently published Asian NGV Communications article, East meets West-Three leading CNG/LNG stakeholders met in China (page 31). The article highlights the “three...
  • Level Blog: Expanding Level Measurement Technologies and Applications

    Level measurement plays a large role in most process manufacturing facilities. It’s a subject we address here on the blog from time to time in the level category. I mention this in case you didn’t see the recent news—Emerson acquires ISE Magtech. ISE...