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Pressure Blog:
Detect Compressor Surge By Measuring Outlet Pressure?
Jim Cahill
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…
4 Oct 2012
Pressure Blog:
Detect Compressor Surge By Measuring Outlet Pressure?
Jim Cahill
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…
4 Oct 2012
Pressure Blog:
Detect Compressor Surge By Measuring Outlet Pressure?
Jim Cahill
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…
4 Oct 2012
Pressure Blog:
Detect Compressor Surge By Measuring Outlet Pressure?
Jim Cahill
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…
4 Oct 2012
Level Blog:
Chamber-based Guided Wave Radar Level Measurement Best Practices
Jim Cahill
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...
25 Sep 2012
Flow Blog:
Pipeline Liquid Pressure Surge Relief
Jim Cahill
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...
4 Sep 2012
Flow Blog:
Liquefied Natural Gas Measurement Challenges
Jim Cahill
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...
23 Aug 2012
Level Blog:
A new proven result video available for remote seal systems
Peta Glenister
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
6 Aug 2012
Pressure Blog:
Early Detection of Distillation Column Flooding Conditions
Jim Cahill
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...
1 Aug 2012
Pressure Blog:
Early Detection of Distillation Column Flooding Conditions
Jim Cahill
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…
1 Aug 2012
Pressure Blog:
Early Detection of Distillation Column Flooding Conditions
Jim Cahill
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…
1 Aug 2012
Pressure Blog:
Early Detection of Distillation Column Flooding Conditions
Jim Cahill
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…
1 Aug 2012
Pressure Blog:
Early Detection of Distillation Column Flooding Conditions
Jim Cahill
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…
1 Aug 2012
Flow Blog:
Remotely Monitoring Marine Vessel Fuel Consumption
Jim Cahill
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...
31 Jul 2012
Level Blog:
Using radar technology to reliably and accurately measure the level of ammonia
Peta Glenister
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
12 Jul 2012
Pressure Blog:
Continuously Diagnosing the Instrumentation Electrical Loop
Jim Cahill
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...
11 Jul 2012
Pressure Blog:
Continuously Diagnosing the Instrumentation Electrical Loop
Jim Cahill
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…
11 Jul 2012
Pressure Blog:
Continuously Diagnosing the Instrumentation Electrical Loop
Jim Cahill
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…
11 Jul 2012
Pressure Blog:
Continuously Diagnosing the Instrumentation Electrical Loop
Jim Cahill
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…
11 Jul 2012
Pressure Blog:
Continuously Diagnosing the Instrumentation Electrical Loop
Jim Cahill
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…
11 Jul 2012
Analytical Experts Blog:
New Generation Chemical Plants and Gas Chromatography
Jim Cahill
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...
5 Jul 2012
Level Blog:
Increasing safety, reducing shutdowns and increasing production on an FPSO vessel
Peta Glenister
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
26 Jun 2012
Analytical Experts Blog:
Optical Path Verification and Visual Integrity Testing Goes to the Next Level
Anonymous
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...
20 Jun 2012
Flow Blog:
Compressed Natural Gas and Liquefied Natural Gas in China
Jim Cahill
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...
19 Jun 2012
Level Blog:
Expanding Level Measurement Technologies and Applications
Jim Cahill
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...
22 May 2012
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