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		Filling Bottles: Go with the Flowmeter - 05/20/12 Control Engineering, May 2012 By Tom Risser, US Bottlers Over the years, the liquid bottling industry has moved from mechanical and weigh-scale fillers using load cell technology to flowmeter-based fillers. US Bottlers uses Endress+Hauser flowmeters now.

		Level switches keep electrostatic precipitators online - 05/12/12 What’s New in Process Technology, May 2012 By Endress+Hauser Australia A Midwest US power plant has eliminated spillover of fly ash from its hoppers, by enlisting Endress+Hauser to assist in the upgrade of its level switch technology.

		Delphi tests fuel injectors with Litre Meter flowmeters - 05/12/12 Process & Control Today, May 2012 Delphi Diesel in India is testing fuel injectors with 15 custom-built flowmeters supplied by Litre Meter. The company also fitted special connections to the instruments so they would integrate with Delphi's test equipment.

		Robinson tests ABB energy harvesting wireless temperature transmitter - 05/02/12 A manufacturer of speciality chemicals in the UK, Robinson Brothers is conducting a trial of the transmitter on a steam main supplying its chemical manufacturing plant.

		A Charming New Facility - 04/21/12 Control, April 2012 By Bryan Beyer, Southern States Chemical Southern States installed HART communications, remote terminal displays, flow elements, DeviceNet networking and a DeltaV automation system from Emerson to control an acid plant.


		Saving Steam Saves Money - 04/21/12 Control, April 2012 By Rich Michaels, Matt Brewing Matt Brewing uses an ABB ControlMaster CM10 flow computer to measure and compute mass flow rates of steam to control heat for boiling the wort. Savings are about $230,000 per year.

		Distributing Production Data - 04/21/12 Control, April 2012 By Dan Hebert Dart Oil and Gas has 500 remote methane well sites in Kansas. Dart uses an OPC server to poll the flow computers and create a temporary database available for access, using OPC Systems.net and other tools provided by Open Automation Software.

		Coriolis flowmeters help GF reduce filling times and improve accuracy - 04/19/12 GF reduced filling times, improved accuracy, and enabled tighter tolerances for its filling machines by using Emerson's Model FMT filling mass transmitter.

		Ale now Produced by Stroud Brewery in Larger Quantities - 03/10/12 Process & Control Today, February 2012 Burkert UK installed a flow, temperature and level control system including the sensors, valves and control panel required to manage the new micro brewery installation at Stroud Brewery.

		ABB control system keeps ammonia levels in check - 03/10/12 Instrumentation, March 2012 Alpheus Environmental installed ABB control and measurement equipment to regulate effluent flows into the receiving sewage treatment works at Basildon. The enhanced performance improved operations and will reduce future costs on site.

		A decommissioning success story - 03/10/12 Industrial Compliance, February 2012 Radar level sensors and switches from VEGA Controls are playing a key role in the decommissioning of Dounreay Power Station in Scotland

		Wireless technology helps meet environmental requirements - 02/17/12 Automation, February 2012 Rosemount wireless conductivity transmitters are helping prevent the discharge of chemicals into the local environment at a paper mill in Sweden.

		Digital architecture helps tank farm meet safety requirements - 01/29/12 Industrial Ethernet Book, February 2012 Emerson’s wireless level and pressure transmitters and a plant-wide wireless network have been used to automate tank storage level monitoring in Sweden, improving safety and reducing costs.

		HART Communication proves valuable on a major project - 01/29/12 Control Engineering, January 2012 The 2011 HART Plant of the Year is Shell’s Scotford Upgrader, recognized after programming and commissioning 1,500 devices from Rosemount, E+H, Fisher, Krohne, K-Tek, Magnetrol, Metso, and Ohmart Vega.

		Level instrumentation works in Nuclear Decommissioning - 01/23/12 Vega level sensors are being used in the decommissioning of the Dounreay nuclear plant in north Scotland.

		SIS replacement project at refinery - 01/11/12 Control Engineering Europe, January 2012 Petroplus is replacing SIS equipment that protects the Naphtha Hydrotreating and Continuous Catalytic Reformer processing units. The SIS is to be implemented using two HIMA HiQuad H51q-HS Programmable Electronic Systems.

		Sontay Provides Control System Sensors At New Hospital In Malta - 01/11/12 Process & Control Engineering, January 2012 Sontay supplied temperature and differential pressure switches for the HVAC systems at the hospital in Tal Qroqq, Malta.

		Wireless conductivity transmitters help prevent chemical discharge - 12/18/11 Control Engineering Europe, December 2011 Korsnäs Gävle is using Emerson’s Smart Wireless conductivity and temperature transmitters to collect critical leak-detection monitoring data at its board and paper production unit at Gävlebukten, Sweden.

		Simplicity = Freedom - 12/18/11 Control, December 2011 By Jim Montague Southern States Chemical used Emerson's CHARacterization Modules (CHARMs) for Delta V electronic marshalling to simplify and streamline a new sulfuric acid plant in Wilmington, N.C.

		Finding the unexpected benefits of wireless - 12/07/11 InTech, December 2011 By Andrew Nolan HollyFrontier’s El Dorado refinery in southeast Kansas discovered several uses for its industrial wireless mesh network on top of its original application.

		Holcim uses particle size analyzer to optimize cement production - 12/01/11 Holcim is using an Insitec on-line particle size analyzer from Malvern Instruments to optimize the grinding circuits that mill finished cement.

		Acoustic process analytics - 11/18/11 South Africa Instrumentation & Control, November 2011 Europe’s largest production facility for ammonia and nitrogen fertiliser in Sluiskil, The Netherlands, tried to measure nitric acid, but it ate the flowmeters. An ultrasonic meter saved the day.

		Emerson wireless sensors monitor paper mill in Sweden - 11/16/11 Korsnäs Gävle is using Emerson’s wireless conductivity and temperature transmitters to collect leak-detection data at its board and paper production unit at Gävlebukten, Sweden.

		Gearing Up to Improve Analytical Instruments - 11/14/11 Design News, November 2011 By Wendy Young, Forest City Gear D8 Discover with GADDS, an analytical diffractometer built by Bruker AXS, utilizes Forest City Gear's brass worm gear sets.

		Robust ABB pressure transmitters resist chemical attack - 11/05/11 Process & Control Today, October 2011 William Blythe, a manufacturer of inorganic chemicals, uses ABB 264HD pressure transmitters with a Hastelloy 2000 seal, which is impervious to the type of damage caused by a halide compound which is extremely corrosive.

		Emerson controls boilers at Tata Steel in UK - 10/25/11 The boiler controls enable Tata to increase energy efficiency and maximize use of waste fuels, reducing emissions as well as reliance on purchased fuels.

		Ultrasonic Flowmeters Make Chiller Control Easier - 10/21/11 Control, October 2011 By Kevin H. Evans Controlotron ultrasonic transit-time clamp-on flowmeters measure flow to chillers at the FAA’s Air Route Traffic Control Center (ARTCC) in the southwestern United States.

		Instrument Accuracy Saves Money - 10/18/11 Automation World, October 2011 At Cartiere del Garda’s paper mill in Italy, a Micro Motion 7845 straight tube, liquid density meter makes real-time measurement of kaolin and other additives in the paper-coating process, resulting in direct savings for the company.

		Automation upgrade at Sebokeng wastewater plant - 10/17/11 South Africa Instrumentation & Control, October 2011 The plant installed a new DCS, PLCs, Profibus network, Wonderware SCADA system, and Endress+Hauser flow meters, analyzers and level transmitters.

		Wireless Overspill Solution Protects Workers & Environment - 10/15/11 IEN, October 2011 FH Tank Storage AB is using Emerson’s wireless level and pressure transmitters to provide overspill protection at its Kalmar storage terminal on the east coast of Sweden. The company has installed a plant-wide Smart Wireless network, DeltaV digital automation system, and AMS Suite predictive maintenance software to automate tank storage level monitoring.

		Pulsar’s Sludge Finder 2 reduces energy costs at UK water plant - 10/10/11 Process and Control Today, October 2011 Pulsar Process Measurement supplied seven of their sludge blanket monitors, Sludge Finder 2, to Wessex Water. The acoustic technology replaced outmoded dipping probes which were unreliable and led to poor control of the system.

		Gas analyser helps calm furnaces - 09/11/11 What’s New in Process Technology, September 2011 Extremely high furnace temperatures and increasing water leakage are the main causes of the eruptions in electric submerged arc furnaces. Using a gas analyser to detect small water leaks has helped improve safety at TEMCO's Tasmanian manganese ferroalloy plant.

		Non-invasive optimisation at a BP refinery - 09/08/11 South Africa Instrumentation & Control, September 2011 Usually, refinery plants use orifice flowmeters because of the high temperatures. After a test demonstrated the suitability of non-invasive ultrasonic technology for this application, a system from Flexim was installed to measure overflash flow in a 150 mm pipe.

		Communicating Diagnostic Data in a Legacy Environment - 08/31/11 Control Engineering, August 2011 By Steven Moore A pulp and paper mill in North America recently solved a nagging problem with a misbehaving magnetic flowmeter by using a wireless device to report diagnostic information that was not coming through the wired I/O.

		Emerson controls tank storage terminal in Sweden - 08/29/11 FH Tank Storage AB is using Emerson’s Rosemount wireless level and pressure transmitters to provide overspill protection at its Kalmar storage terminal on the east coast of Sweden.

		Radar Technology for Level Measurement - 08/18/11 Control, August 2011 Precise knowledge of the grain level in UCML's storage silos is essential to production. Radar measurement is the key.

		Instrumentation challenges of walnut processing - 07/23/11 Control Engineering, July 2011 By Ben Orchard, Opto 22 Walnut meat kernels have to be dried to optimum moisture content quickly and efficiently. How do you measure that?

		Density meter reduces costs and improves quality at paper mill - 07/23/11 Control Engineering Europe, July 2010 Cartiere del Garda is using a Micro Motion density meter from Emerson Process Management to measure the concentration of kaolin and other additives in the coating process at its paper mill in Italy.

		Refinery Benefits from Smart Devices - 07/23/11 Automation World, July 2011 Beginning in 2002, engineers at the MOL Danube Refinery near Budapest, Hungary made the strategic decision to install HART-enabled devices throughout their operation. The results have been award-winning, and extremely profitable.

		Emerson density meter reduces waste at Italian paper mill - 06/30/11 The Micro Motion 7845 Density and Concentration Meter provides highly accurate density measurements under entrained gas conditions.

		Honeywell Drives Communication Efficiency in Hindustan Petroleum - 06/27/11 Process & Control Today, June 2011 Hindustan Petroleum (HPCL) implemented Honeywell Process Solutions’ Mobile Stations in their $200 million Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit (FCCU) project at their Mumbai refinery.

		Emerson supplies bunker fuel delivery to VT Group - 06/16/11 VT Group (Verenigde Tankrederij) installed Emerson’s Micro Motion Certified Marine Bunker Measurement Solution on the bunker fuel barge MTS Vlaardingen.

		Western refining cuts wiring costs, improves performance - 06/12/11 Control Engineering, June 2011 By Reginald Joseph, Western Refining The Gallup refinery uses a legacy Honeywell TDC 3000 DCS. Management sought to extend monitoring capabilities to remote tank farm areas. After a site survey, a wireless system is being integrated with existing power and network infrastructure.

		Toyota plant monitors detention ponds wirelessly - 06/12/11 Control Engineering, June 2011 By Susan Schnelbach, Banner Engineering Wireless monitoring of detention pond levels helps Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky comply with requirements of the Water Quality Act of 1987.

		Emerson radar level sensors save money at Absolute Energy - 06/09/11 Replacing the plant’s existing level transmitters, the new equipment has helped avoid shutdowns that can cost as much as $20,000 an hour in lost production and potential equipment damage costing over $200,000.

		ABB WaterMaster helps RWE remain MCERTS compliant - 05/27/11 Process & Control Today, April 2011 An ABB WaterMaster electromagnetic flowmeter is helping energy company RWE npower in the UK fulfill its MCERTS commitment. The 1,400MW power station has always monitored the amount of cooling water that it discharges, but this extra instrumentation will enable it to verify that the readings provided by the existing meters are accurate.

		Apprion develops Wireless Application Site Plan for BASF FINA - 05/08/11 Apprion conducted an on-site survey, which included RF spectrum analysis, various grid simulation output with signal power levels and a technical evaluation of the site’s infrastructure.

		Pharmaceutical manufacturer saves 40% in CIP costs - 04/24/11 Control Engineering Europe, March 2011 Converting a manual clean-in-place (CIP) process to automatic across 80 reaction vessels, using pressure transmitters, condition sensors and flow meters, enabled a UK-based pharmaceutical manufacturer to achieve savings of £120,000 per annum.

		VEGA level radars help deliver £12M savings at TATA - 04/24/11 Process & Control Today, April 2011 TATA Steel in Scunthorpe, UK, measures level in in a steel-pouring ladle with non-contact VEGAPULS radars. VEGAPULS radars work using low power microwave pulses which are reflected from the surface to measure the level.

		Flowmeter Boosts Solvent Recovery - 04/17/11 Control, April 2011 By Larell Palmer and Erik Schroeppel, Eli Lilly Eli Lilly replaced existing differential pressure/orifice flowmeters with Coriolis flowmeters from Emerson in its fermentation-based process to produce animal health products.

		Emerson’s Wireless monitors water usage in Ireland - 04/07/11 Rosemount wireless flow and pressure transmitters on two new storage tanks monitor water usage at GlaxoSmithKline's Cork plant in Ireland.

		Tank measurements shared with production planning department - 03/24/11 Control Engineering Europe, March 2011 John Crabbie & Co installed nine new storage tanks with VEGAPULS plics-plus radar level sensors. The sensors are connected using HART multi-drop communications, allowing tank inventory data to be shared via the company LAN (Local Area Network).

		Ohio WWTP uses Flo-Corp radar level transmitter for influent water flow - 03/10/11 The accuracy of the radar level system at the WWTP is extremely important and the data collected has helped addressed an ongoing problem with I & I (infiltration and inflow).

		Genzyme monitors 50,000 SCADA points with HMS Anybus Communicator - 03/02/11 Using about 30 HMS Anybus gateways, Genzyme converts serial and ASCII data from centrifuges, pH-meters and balances and sends it over Ethernet or Profibus to the central SCADA.

		Emerson’s Coriolis flowmeters meter rubberized asphalt - 02/17/11 BearCat Pumps of Phoenix, Arizona, is using Micro Motion ELITE high temperature Coriolis mass flowmeters in its metering systems for rubberized asphalt.

		Using microwaves to detect hopper blockage - 02/17/11 What’s New in Process Technology, February 2011 By VEGA Australia Cement is an important raw material for the construction industry. Schwenk Zement uses the microwave barrier VEGAMIP from VEGA as a reliable solution for reporting material blockages.

		Flowmeters help recover lost revenues and promote energy efficiency - 02/17/11 What’s New in Process Technology, February 2011 By ABB Australia As a result of installing new flowmeters, Virginia Commonwealth University has reduced annual steam losses in the generation plant from 16 to 5% and enabled the plant to recover more than US$1,275,000 a year in lost revenues.

		World’s largest LNG tanks rely on ABB instrumentation - 02/07/11 Process and Control Today, January 2011 Temperature and pressure sensors from ABB’s UK Measurement Products business are helping to maintain safety at the world’s largest above ground liquid natural gas (LNG) tanks at National Grid’s Isle of Grain terminal.

		Reliable and Consistent Deep Well Measurement at Ayr Pumping Station - 02/07/11 Process and Control Today, February 2011 Pulsar Process Measurement supplied Scottish Water with non-contacting ultrasonic level measurement equipment that has resolved a particularly difficult deep well measurement issue, providing strong, consistent and reliable measurement of a narrow, 25metre deep sump.

		Talvivaara mining company relies on Metso - 02/07/11 South Africa Instrumentation & Control, February 2011 Equipment includes hundreds of Endress+Hauser flow, pressure, surface analysis and temperature measurements, dozens of intelligent Neles control valves, actuators and positioners, and a metsoDNA automation system.

		Honeywell controls Petrovis fuel depot in Mongolia - 01/26/11 Honeywell supplied a PKS control system, OneWireless, Digital Video Manager and Enraf Tank Gauging System to improve the efficiency and safety of a fuel depot near Ulaanbaatar.

		ABB System 800xA controls Potash Company in Jordan - 01/24/11 ABB provided an electrical, control and instrumentation package to help boost capacity at Aqaba and make the storage and loading process faster and more efficient.

		Brewery Implements High Operating Distance Sensors - 01/22/11 IMPO, January 2011 The König brewery in Duisburg, Germany, uses Turck sensors to measure the position of pipe elbow adapters which distribute and feed liquids such as brewing water and wort. This is because of frequent loosening and fixing of the screw connection. The seal suffers damage so that the distance between sensor and pipe elbow varies.

		Automatic Tank Gauging Relieves Anxiety - 01/22/11 IMPO, January 2011 There’s nothing inherently wrong with the traditional systems that are used to monitor and record AST product levels. But when you’re talking about storage vessels that can be upwards of 50 feet tall and contain up to 500,000 gallons of product, they are just not as accurate at recording product levels.

		Dissolved Gas Analysis: Continuous or Annual? - 12/20/10 Transmission & Distribution, December 2010 By Donald Lamontagne, Arizona Public Service The ability to monitor dissolved gases in transformers in near real time has been around for years and is proving its worth. Many utilities are not yet convinced continuous monitoring yields significantly more relevant data than yearly or biannual laboratory analysis.

		Monitoring Critical Parameters in Oil Processing - 12/18/10 IEN, December 2010 SpecElectroMechanika in Russia uses Turck MK32 measuring amplifiers to monitor the input signals of Pt100 temperature control sensors on oil tanks in the huge oil terminal at Russia’s largest seaport in Novorossiysk.

		Technology prevents bearing failure at a steel mill - 12/18/10 Plant Services, December 2010 NUCOR Steel Arkansas installed Azima DLI’s 1600 network-based temperature monitoring technology to all 16 bearings in the gearboxes driving the F1 and F2 mill stands. The system immediately identified two anomalous bearing temperatures that were well above expected limits due to excessive mill loads and speeds.

		Wireless Monitoring Delivers Fast Payback - 12/12/10 Control, December 2010 By Chris Stubbs Genetech installed wireless monitors on 56 steam traps at a cost of $42,000. As a result, 14 steam traps showed signs of failure. The maintenance team investigated, and the traps were replaced. Early detection saved an estimated $53,000 in annual steam loss.

		Continuous improvements yield high returns - 12/12/10 InTech, December 2010 By Roberto Anibal Gorbarán A comprehensive asset management program implemented at the Petrobras Zarate polystyrene manufacturing plant in Argentina on 1,000 intelligent FOUNDATION fieldbus and HART field devices has enabled continued productivity gains and greater profitability.

		Emerson Wireless technology helps boost production in Argentina - 11/22/10 Data from Rosemount wireless transmitters helps Tecpetrol increase production by $4 million while reducing maintenance costs by 62% and supervisory control costs by 35%.

		Wastewater treatment optimisation provides savings - 11/15/10 European Process Engineer, November 2010 By Dr Michael Haeck, Hach Lange In combination with Hach Lange sensors, nutrient removal and sludge treatment processes can now be optimised in order to achieve savings in aeration energy and chemical consumption, even on small waste water treatment facilities.

		Emerson automates Varandey oil export terminal in Russia - 11/10/10 Emerson supplied DeltaV control systems, AMS software, Rosemount instrumentation and Fisher control valves, communicating via HART, Modbus and FOUNDATION fieldbus protocols.

		Copper Mine Optimizes Water Recovery with Honeywell Wireless - 11/03/10 Codelco needed to optimize the water recovery process of the thickener pools at its Norte mine in Chile. It used wireless to connect field devices in the mine to its PLCs and control system.

		Emerson flowmeters make ships efficient - 11/01/10 Rederi AB Transatlantic installed Emerson’s Micro Motion Coriolis mass flowmeters on several ships in its fleet.

		Online vibration spectral data analysis helps mine keep critical equipment running - 10/21/10 Plant Services, October 2010 To ensure optimal performance from a drum hoist at a Canadian mine, the machine’s vibration spectral data is use to capture and diagnose potential faults via an online condition monitoring system.

		Need an Automation Plant in a Hurry? - 10/19/10 Control, October 2010 By Charlie Henderson, Fluor Fluor uses Coriolis flowmeters to help fast-track construction of the world's largest solar-grade polysilicon plant in China to meet the needs of photovoltaic cell manufacturers.

		Hazardous Area Flow Meter Takes On Pharmaceutical Batching - 10/19/10 Process & Control Today, September 2010 Macfarlan Smith’s pharmaceutical manufacturing site in Edinburgh uses an ABLE hazardous area portable flow meter as a volumetric totaliser of solvent into a batch of product. Accurate measurement is required for product quality, batch consistency and prevention of increased energy consumption due to overfilling.

		Pepperl+Fuchs intrinsic safety barriers used on Gas Storage - 10/19/10 Process & Control Today, September 2010 An E.ON gas storage facility in Cheshire, UK, will use Pepperl+Fuchs range of SIL rated intrinsic safety isolated barriers to interface between the Safety Instrumented System and a large number of field devices installed on the Holford Gas Storage project.

		Infrared Inspection Transformed By Wireless Technology - 10/19/10 Process & Control Today, October 2010 Medite Europe in Clonmel, Ireland, uses FLIR thermal imaging as an important part of its predictive maintenance programme. Electrical or mechanical faults are spotted and repaired before becoming a production-disrupting failure.

		Keeping Tyseley on Track - 10/19/10 Process & Control Today, October 2010 The Tyseley plant in the UK incinerates 350,000 tonnes of Birmingham’s non-recyclable rubbish each year. To maximise boiler efficiency, Tyseley produces high purity deionised water on site and adds chemicals to scavenge oxygen and adjust the pH to prevent corrosion.

		Emerson's Wireless saved Atlas Pipeline $725,000 in installation costs - 10/13/10 The wireless network includes 99 Rosemount wireless temperature, pressure, level, and discrete-input transmitters that communicate with three Smart Wireless Gateways.

		Whitecourt receives superior drinking water - 10/13/10 InTech, October 2010 By Wally Ingham, Stantec Consulting The Town of Whitecourt’s Water Treatment Plant in Alberta, Canada, was updated with a ControLogix PLC, DeviceNet, a variable speed pump, MCC, and Rosemount flow, level and pressure instrumentation.

		Automation Strengthens Supply Chain - 10/13/10 Control Engineering, September 2010 Personal wash producer PZ Cussons in the UK built a fully-automated plant from the ground up, using control equipment engineered and supplied by Rockwell Automation, along with instruments and fieldbus networks designed and commissioned by Endress+Hauser.

		Emerson’s Wireless network boosts production at Northstar Bluescope Steel - 09/28/10 Replacing traditional wired network with wireless for control and monitoring has improved operations and worker safety in harsh environment.

		Emerson measures fuel viscosity on tanker ship - 09/22/10 Viscomaster meter improves fuel efficiency by accurately measuring viscosity, density and temperature of the heavy fuel oil (HFO) that supplies the vessel's main and auxiliary engines.

		ABB controls iron ore pellet plant in Bahrain - 09/22/10 ABB supplied a System 800xA process control system, field instrumentation, motor control centers, motors and variable speed drives to Gulf Industrial Investment, Bahrain.

		Emerson automates separations research facility - 09/12/10 The pilot plant uses DeltaV S-series controllers with Electronic Marshalling, HART I/O, Smart Wireless communications, sensors and transmitters, digital control valves, and Coriolis meters.

		Smart robot monitors SEQ water quality - 09/12/10 Process & Control Engineering, August 2010 A solar-powered smart robot and 120 sensor nodes were now positioned around Wivenhoe Dam to provide real-time data on water quality and weather conditions.

		More Power, Less Exposure - 09/10/10 Control, September 2010 By Nancy Bartels Vermont Yankee used Honeywell wireless gauge reader (WGR) technology to reduce radiation exposure and enhance system monitoring. The WGR is an instrument that attaches to the front of existing analog gauges, and then transmits a gauge reading wirelessly via WiFi 802.11b/g protocol.

		To Hell and Back - 09/10/10 Control, September 2010 By Jon DiPietro The control room at Goulburn Valley Water in Australia was completely incinerated, destroying the electrical switchgear, plant HMI, laboratory, instrumentation and chemical dosing systems. They rebuilt it in five days.

		Mersen overhauls process control with Burkert - 09/10/10 Control Engineering Europe, August 2010 Mersen chose Burkert to provide process control for its new Moulding Station and Effluent Treatment plant at its production facility at Eurocentral in Scotland. The Burkert system handles level and flow monitoring, fluid control and process actuation.

		Win With Wireless - 09/10/10 Industrial Networking, August 2010 By Jim Montague Western Refining's refinery near Gallup, New Mexico, recently upgraded its tank operations and process units with a mesh networking solution and went way beyond just saving on cable.

		Smart Wireless Transmitters Monitor Storage Tanks - 08/26/10 Oil and Gas Engineering, August 2010 Self-organising wireless network reduces installation costs and enables online monitoring of vapour pressure and levels in tanks.

		Wireless – Overcoming challenges of PID control & analyzer applications - 08/23/10 InTech, August 2010 By Greg McMillan An enhanced PID controller simplifies tuning and improves loop stability and reliability for loops dominated by discontinuous measurement updates.

		Peristaltic pump tackles troublesome pH levels at food manufacturer - 08/23/10 Process and Control Today, August 2010 Food manufacturer Greencore Group achieved significant savings in downtime and repair costs on the water treatment plant at its Greencore Grocery site in North Yorkshire, thanks to a Bredel SPX50 high pressure peristaltic hose pump from Watson-Marlow.

		Burkert Provides Process Control System For Mersen Eurocentral Facility - 08/23/10 Process and Control Today, August 2010 Burkert provided a process control system, including level and flow monitoring, fluid control and process actuation, for a new Moulding Station and Effluent Treatment plant, installed at Mersen’s new production facility at Eurocentral in Scotland.

		Optimised CIP processes - 08/23/10 South Africa Instrumentation & Control, August 2010 By Andrew Ashton Emerson’s conductivity sensors are helping German brewer Schneider Weisse optimise the CIP process at its brewery in Bavaria by reducing the total caustic detergent, water and energy used, as well as saving previously wasted finished product.

		ABB adds SIS to Natural gas dehydration facility - 08/18/10 Components of the SIS include a PLC logic solver, ABB 2600T pressure transmitters, and pneumatically actuated ball valves.

		ABB flowmeters save money at Virginia Commonwealth University - 08/17/10 ABB flowmeters cut steam losses and recovered more than $1.25 million a year in lost revenues.

		Selecting Suppliers for Global Ambitions - 08/13/10 Control Engineering, July 2010 By Rich Chmielewski, Siemens Orbitek uses a Siemens Simatic S7 315 controller, drives, flow meters and pressure transmitters to control its biodiesel plant.

		Emerson Coriolis meters handle fiscal metering application - 07/21/10 Micro Motion Coriolis flow meters provide precision and repeatability for metering of denatured alcohol at Italian agro-industrial operation

		Agrochemical Operation Reduces pH Maintenance Hours By 50% - 07/21/10 Agrochemical producer saved $450,000 per year by switching to Endress+Hauser’s pH analyzers. Specifically, maintenance labor was reduced by 50% and consumable usage was cut by 60%.

		Solving The Wet Gas Flow Measurement Challenge - 07/18/10 Pipeline & Gas Journal, July 2010 By Bryan Trostel Traditional gas meters are not designed to cope with such wet gas flows. This article describes the operation of the wet gas testing facility at Colorado Engineering Experiment Station, Inc. (CEESI).

		Coriolis Mass Flowmeters Used To Measure Bulk Condensate In Gas Field - 07/18/10 Pipeline & Gas Journal, July 2010 By Mark Davis, Jerry E. Stevens and Michael Keilty Shell understood the technical limitations of positive displacement technology and proposed a new approach for bulk condensate measurement using Coriolis flowmeters from Endress+Hauser for the Pinedale Anticline natural gas field in Wyoming.

		Manufacturer Leak-Tests Refrigeration Systems - 07/12/10 Assembly, July 2010 By Jim Camillo Hill PHOENIX Iused helium leak detectors to ensure that all welded joints, mechanical joints and externally supplied components were tight. Unfortunately, the rising price and limited supply of helium presented a challenge for the company: Find a way to cut leak-testing costs without sacrificing quality.

		Technology with Added Value - 07/10/10 Control Engineering Europe, June 2010 By Jane Goh, Changi Water Reclamation Plant The Changi Water Reclamation Plant in Singapore is one of the biggest Profibus installations in the world, with 7,000 Profibus DP and 2,500 Profibus PA instruments. They rely on FDT technology for device integration.

		Commissioning like a pro - 07/10/10 Control Engineering Europe, June 2010 By Mike Babb Foundation fieldbus Instrumentation from Endress+Hauser was configured with DTMs to monitor gas burners at the ADA Carbon Solutions plant in Coushatta, Louisiana.

		Multi-product pipeline sampler goes to Brazil - 07/10/10 Process & Control Today, June 2010 Petrobas is using a Jiskoot Fast Loop sampling system for unmanned multi-batch collection of representative batch and spot samples of refined fuels for laboratory analysis.

		Pipeline Operator Gains By Wirelessly Monitoring Cathodic Protection - 06/23/10 Pipeline & Gas Journal, June 2010 By Dan Steele, FreeWave Technologies EnCana Oil & Gas installed a remote, wireless cathodic protection monitoring system to watch over 128 miles of regulated pipeline in Colorado.

		Photoelectric sensors ensure the tomatoes are fresh - 06/12/10 Process & Control Today, June 2010 When Het Kraaiennest in Holland expanded their tomato growing area from 25 to 47 acres they installed a sorting system with eight palletisers, which use discrete optical sensors and light scanners from Leuze electronic.

		Humidity transmitter in fermentation chambers - 06/12/10 Process & Control Today, June 2010 A leading European food processing manufacturer has chosen Michell’s PF211 RH transmitter to control the humidity and temperature in their range of fermentation chamber.

		JLT in-cab PC automates weighing at British Sugar - 06/12/10 Process & Control Today, June 2010 The fixed-mount PC is installed within the cab of a front-end wheeled loader to provide the mobile platform for CCSL’s advanced wireless weighing system that utilises state of the art onboard weigh scales from RDS.

		TURCK Sensors and I/O Help Grow Potatoes - 06/10/10 By TURCK Quantum Tubers uses TURCK’s distributed I/O system and analog input modules to obtain inputs from humidity, temperature, light, CO2 and flow sensors to grow potato plants in only 50 days.

		Emerson improves productivity at Cambrex Profarmaco - 06/02/10 Cambrex Profarmaco of Milan, Italy, successfully implemented Emerson's DeltaV digital automation system, AMS Suite, Rosemount instruments and meters, and Micro Motion F-Series Coriolis mass flowmeters.

		Smart Wireless improves furnace operations at Ternium Siderar - 05/27/10 Emerson's Smart Wireless network is helping deliver improved furnace operation and safety at Ternium Siderar’s steelmaking facility in San Nicolás Argentina.

		Syngenta monitors heat exchangers with Smart Wireless - 05/20/10 Using wireless devices based on WirelessHART, Syngenta expects $25-$50K in annual raw materials savings through cost-effective monitoring of heat exchangers.

		ArcelorMittal's end line inspection - 05/15/10 South Africa Instrumentation & Control, May 2010 Steelmaker ArcelorMittal implemented an ELI (end of line inspection) facility based on Wonderware software to ensure pipes conform to alignment, rotation and ultrasonic requirements at its Vereeniging tubing plant.

		WirelessHART Network monitors Mining Operation’s Movable Leach Fields - 05/13/10 The system uses 44 Endress+Hauser Promag 53P flowmeters and Cerabar WirelessHART pressure transmitters to monitor flow and pressure in leach fields that are regularly relocated, and use movable, temporary piping.

		Induction heaters use infrared temperature sensors from Micro-Epsilon - 05/13/10 Sensors measure the temperature of metal components during heat treatment.

		Wireless helps Dubai Aluminum manage compressed air - 05/12/10 Rosemount wireless transmitters provide reliable data to existing SCADA system despite strong magnetic field, allow operators to reduce energy use by 13 percent.

		Maintaining safety in extreme conditions - 05/12/10 HazardEX, April 2010 Toxic and flammable gas detectors and air flow sensors from Trolex have been used to monitor CH4, CO and air flow at the Svea Nord mine in Norway. All the sensors have ATEX M1 approval.

		Wireless technology helps Lion Oil check product inventory - 05/06/10 Emerson's Smart Wireless technology is helping Lion Oil cost-effectively check product inventory, prevent overfill and remediation costs, and monitor UPS power for the radio tower.

		Wireless on a 50-meter stack saves wiring costs - 04/28/10 Installation of a Smart Wireless flow transmitter on a 50-meter stack at a lead foundry in Torreon, Mexico cost $12,000 less than the cost to install a traditional wired network.

		Industrial Strength Infrared - 04/16/10 Vision Systems Design, April 2010 By Andrew Wilson Infrared line-scanners are now being deployed in high-speed web applications ranging from paper manufacturing to glass production.

		Cutting costs with energy auditing - 04/16/10 Reliable Plant, April 2010 24-7 Power, an electrical consulting and engineering service company, uses a three-step approach to help a company lower its energy bills. With the right tools and knowledge, your company can follow the same process using your own personnel.

		Water Is Money. Accuracy Matters - 04/14/10 Control, April 2010 By Walt Boyes The Montezuma Valley Irrigation Company installed Dynasonic ultrasonic flowmeters in an irrigation system that replaced open-ditches with HPDE pipe. The system prevented 60% of the water from being wasted, and saves about $2 million per year.

		Wireless technology works on mobile wellhead test equipment - 04/13/10 Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij (NAM) in the Netherlands applied Emerson's Smart Wireless technology to mobile wellhead test equipment.

		Non-contact temperature sensors test cooling methods for steel strip - 04/13/10 Non-contact infrared sensors from Micro-Epsilon are being used to monitor the temperature of steel strip on an experimental small-scale rolling mill at Corus’ Swinden Technology Centre in Rotherham.

		Diversity linked on a common platform - 04/08/10 Control Engineering, April 2010 By Christine Eckert, FDT Group Device integration at the world’s largest wastewater treatment plant, the Changi Water Reclamation Plant in Singapore, links multiple manufacturers on common fieldbus and management networks.

		Tankvision - tank gauging re-imagined - 04/08/10 South Africa Instrumentation & Control, April 2010 By Hennie Blignaut, Endress+Hauser South Africa The Tanzanian & Italian Petroleum Company installed a wireless Modbus Tankvision system to measure product in 20 large storage tanks using level, pressure and temperature gauges.

		Emerson monitors biomass gasification at Polish power plant - 03/22/10 Temperature data is being transmitted over a WirelessHART network to operators to ensure that the ceramic walls of the chamber are not damaged by stress fractures through overheating.

		Real-Time Control of Coal Quality Improves Reliability - 03/21/10 Power, March 2010 Steve Foster, SABIA and Bob Halsell, Red Hills Mine Poor lignite fuel quality had plagued the Red Hills Power Plant since it began operation eight years ago. The solution: real-time measurement of coal properties that has allowed Red Hills Mine to carefully monitor fuel quality and adjust fuel collection processes to ensure that only high-quality fuel is delivered to the plant.

		ABB monitors silica at power plant to cut NOx emissions - 03/17/10 High silica values can coat turbines, leading to decreased efficiency, engine damage, and costly downtime. The Navigator 600 monitors silica in water to be injected.

		METTLER-TOLEDO density meters help safety at Shanghai SECCO - 03/16/10 Shanghai SECCO has three M-T DE45 density meters, each equipped with SC1 and SC30 automatic sample changers.

		Steam turbine vibrations - 03/10/10 Energy Tech, March 2010 By Patrick J. Smith The causes of rotating machinery vibration problems are not always obvious. The effects of pipe strain and lubrication issues for example, can be difficult to identify. This article describes an example of one of these cases.

		On-Line Motor Test saves Expensive Downtime - 03/10/10 Maintenance On Line, February 2010 By Michael Herring, Whitelegg Machines Whitelegg Machines diagnosed a problem motor at a UK power station – an 11kv, 2400kw motor, driving a cooling water pump used on a condensing unit. Tests using an on-line motor monitoring unit found the problem. A simple adjustment fixed it, saving the cost of removing the pump and motor for inspection.

		Leak Detective Sleuths Out Trouble - 03/10/10 Machinery and Equipment MRO, February 2010 By Bruce Gorelick And Alan Bandes How an ultrasound inspection saved hundreds of thousands of dollars by finding vacuum leaks hidden underneath thick pipe insulation.

		Opting for Wireless Technology - 02/26/10 Power Engineering, February 2010 When Entergy Nuclear adopted Motorola wireless technology at its River Bend Nuclear Station, the company successfully modernized one of its plants and maximized performance—and saved $4 million in the process.

		Exact Flow flow meters to be used in Formula One racing cars - 02/19/10 Process & Control Engineering, February 2010 Turbine meters will help race teams cope with an FIA rule change prohibiting mid-race refueling, which will be imposed beginning with the 2010 season. Formula One teams will have to dramatically rethink existing car designs and racing strategies in order to cater to the new refueling regulation.

		Ginetta G50 series race cars use pressure sensors - 02/19/10 Process and Control Today, January 2010 Ginetta Cars is a major player in British motorsports, designing and building cars for the race track. To maintain the company’s consistently high performance standards, Ginetta choose Variohm EPT3100 pressure transducers to monitor oil, fuel and water pressure across all of its G50 series race cars.

		The Worlds Largest Foundation Fieldbus Project - 02/19/10 Control, February 2010 By B. R. Mehta, et al The Jamnagar Export Refinery Project greenfield refinery in India, with 20,000+ Foundation fieldbus tags, is one of the world's largest FF sites. Equipment was supplied by Invensys and MTL.

		San Diego Gas & Electric uses wireless to improve operations - 02/18/10 Five applications use wireless sensors from Emerson to increase throughput, extend asset life, and improve process efficiency and safety.

		Liquids manufacture gets automation boost - 02/16/10 Control Engineering Europe, February 2010 PZ Cussons built a new liquids manufacturing facility in Manchester. Endress+Hauser’s FieldCare software was implemented to maintain and configure the army of instrumentation installed at the plant.

		Chlorine analyzers monitor cooling water at Dow Terneuzen - 02/15/10 Emerson's total chlorine analyzers are being used by DOW Benelux to improve the monitoring and control of chlorine in cooling water prior to its return to the sea.

		Wireless network automates data collection at Petrobras - 02/10/10 Emerson’s WirelessHART network delivers real-time compressor data while saving $200,000 installed cost and overcoming difficult conditions for wired approach

		Dynasonics wireless flow meters save water - 02/03/10 The Montezuma Valley Irrigation Company replaced open ditch irrigation with a closed pipe system and Dynasonics wireless flow meters communicating to a SCADA system, and is saving 1,000 acre-feet of water per year.

		Mesh network supports data center energy efficiency system - 02/03/10 Dust Networks' SmartMesh wireless sensor networking technology is being used by Federspiel Controls to monitor cooling systems in data centers and reduce energy costs by up to 25%.

		Wireless transmitters monitor storage tanks at Nynas refinery - 02/01/10 Emerson's wireless pressure sensors were installed by Nynas AB to upgrade an underground storage tank monitoring system, reducing installation costs by €10,000 compared to a wired alternative.

		Emerson automates ethanol plant in Sweden - 01/27/10 A pilot ethanol processing plant built by Chematur Engineering uses Emerson's DeltaV control system with WirelessHART, Wi-Fi, FOUNDATION fieldbus, AMS, and Rosemount wireless pressure and temperature transmitters.

		Uncovering seven uncommon IR thermometer applications - 01/27/10 Plant Engineering, January 2010 By Brian Stowell, Fluke Article describes how to use an IR thermometer to measure temperatures in a UPS, batteries, lighting fixtures, steam systems, HVAC, process and products.

		Radar level sensors keep German salt trucks moving The salt stockpile level data is provided by VEGA non contact radar sensors that measure the levels in storage silos and storehouses.

		MCERTS scheme helps Food Factory save on effluent costs - 01/10/10 HazardEx, January 2010 Pulsar Process Measurement supplied a high-accuracy DUET transducer array to a Premier Foods company in Newport, UK. The accuracy allowed the company to make a substantial saving on effluent charges.

		VEGA radars get the measure of the Thames - 01/10/10 Process & Control Today, January 2010 Previously, a pressure sensor mounted in a ‘stilling well’ was used to measure level of the Thames, but the large amounts of silt that come down the river blocked it regularly, causing misreads of the river level. It was replaced with a non-contact VEGAPULS 62 radar level transmitter.

		Sensor measures surface runoff at Manchester Airport - 01/10/10 Process & Control Today, January 2010 Surface water runoff in a major airport is considerable, and in certain areas may be mixed with aviation fuel, oil and other contaminants, so it has to be treated in the same way as any other industrial effluent. That means separation, treatment and measurement of the final effluent flow.

		BP validates storage tank protection systems via wireless - 01/06/10 Emerson wireless temperature transmitters measure floating roof temperatures at BP Exploration’s Dalmeny onshore terminal.

		HygienicMaster electromagnetic meters monitor energy home - 12/22/09 Seven meters monitor closed solar-thermal loop, a closed radiant floor loop with a single smart pump, and an open domestic hot water loop.

		Wireless network improves carbon reactiviation process at Calgon - 12/15/09 WirelessHART network uses Rosemount wireless temperature transmitters attached to a rotating kiln to deliver continuous information for instant response to process changes, enabling better heat control.

		Pulsafeeder uses UFM flow meter in blending systems - 12/14/09 P420 vortex shedding flowmeter from Universal Flow Monitors has been incorporated into two different Pulsafeeder emulsion polymer blending systems.

		Wireless technology helps Sun Chemical improve ink quality - 12/07/09 Rosemount DP wireless transmitters communicate to PLC, allowing producer of printing inks and pigments to reduce product rejects and comply with environmental regulations.

		Oil pipeline bolsters pressure - 12/06/09 Control Engineering Europe, November 2009 The Gjøa field in the North Sea implemented a flow-based pipeline protection system (PPS) to cut pipeline costs and provide higher pressures for gas transportation. The PPS measures pressure, flow and temperature in the pipeline, and collects it with a HMIA safety control system.

		Data improvements at natural gas facilities - 12/06/09 HazardEx, November 2009 Rosemount wireless transmitters have improved data delivery at three Tecpetrol natural gas compression facilities in Argentina. The sites measure venting, deliver gas data for AGA 3 calculations to balance plants, and data for fiscal accounting of sold gas.

		Smart automation helping to secure Sydney’s water future - 12/06/09 Process & Control Engineering, November 2009 Sydney Water’s new desalination plant at Kurnell uses Profibus technology along with 1,400 instruments from Endress+Hauser to measure water level, pressure, temperature, pH, ORP, turbidity, conductivity and the concentration of minerals such as nitrates.

		Wireless overfill protection secures petroleum tank farm - 12/06/09 Process & Control Engineering, November 2009 By Sarah Falson Neumann Petroleum in Brisbane, Australia, was able to increase its plant safety with overfill protection using wireless HART radar level sensors from Rosemount.

		Instruments Tame Troublesome Slurry - 11/21/09 Chemical Processing, November 2009 By Kerry Haight, Lubrizol, and Joe LaPoint, FCX Performance Lubrizol Advanced Materials’ Louisville, Ky., plant produces chlorinated polyvinyl chloride (CPVC) resin. The amount of CPVC determines the quantity of additive required, so it’s necessary to know the CPVC slurry’s flow rate and its % solids. It’s tough, however, to obtain accurate measurements with two-phase flow. Two different sensors solved the problem.

		Flow Line Options sensors monitor Smart Fuels Biodiesel Refinery - 11/18/09 The refinery is expected to be operational by 2010 and will produce ASTM certified biodiesel fuel from recycled, used vegetable oil and fats.

		Wireless technology monitors temperatures at AOC resins - 11/16/09 Eight Rosemount wireless temperature transmitters continuously check batch temperatures, sending that real-time data to a Smart Wireless Gateway integrated with the plant’s DeltaV digital automation system.

		Sensor film monitors pressure on nip rollers - 11/11/09 Mohawk Fine Papers uses Pressurex sensor film to take static nip impressions on their press section and dynamic nip impressions on their calendars.

		Wireless Technology as a Work in Progress - 11/11/09 Control Engineering, November 2009 By Peter Welander Strategy and tactics: Process industry users, vendors discuss obstacles to implementation, appropriate applications, and standards for plant-level wireless.

		Plant Deployment Demonstrates Wireless Standard - 11/11/09 Control Engineering, November 2009 By Peter Welander Installation in a brownfield chemical plant shows interoperability within ISA100.11a and practicality for instrumentation improvements in long-established operations.

		Redland bolsters production with sensor install - 11/11/09 Control Engineering Europe, November 2009 Monier Redland has turned to Sick UK to boost product quality and minimise waste with laser sensor technology on a roofing tile line at its Leighton Buzzard, UK, plant. Sick DT50 sensors were chosen to detect upper and lower fill levels in a hopper.

		Power Station Upgrade Benefits From Sensonics Systems - 11/11/09 Process and Control Today, October 2009 SENSONICS upgraded turbine supervisory and vibration monitoring installations at the Uskmouth Power Station in Newport, South Wales. Both systems were obsolete and causing problems in terms of support and reliability of operation. Sensonics supplied Aegis VME (Vibration) and Sentry turbine monitoring systems to the turbine and alternator.

		Emerson wireless transmitters monitor gas plants in Argentina - 11/05/09 Rosemount wireless transmitters at three sites measure venting, deliver gas data for AGA3 calculations to balance plants, and provide data for fiscal accounting of sold gas.

		Harcros Chemicals monitors manual valves with wireless sensors - 10/28/09 Emerson wireless position monitors are helping Harcros Chemicals monitor manual valves in remote, hard-to-reach locations that previously were unconnected to the plant’s control system.

		Wireless helps cement plant comply with air quality regulations - 10/26/09 Emerson’s wireless network of field instrumentation monitors the process used to reduce NOx emissions inside a rotating cement kiln at CalPortland Company.

		Intelligent Gearbox Monitoring - 10/22/09 Maintenance On-Line, October 2009 An online remote monitoring device (in this case a FAG DTECT X1 system) was installed on hot saws to determine their condition.

		Steel plant sees shakes - 10/22/09 Plant Services, October 2009 In Worthington Steel’s Porter, IN, plant, rollers on the pickling line were going through two sets of bearings per year, at a cost of approximately $75,000 per bearing set. Using ProSmart’s advanced diagnostic tools to continuously monitor machine health, Worthington Steel found the problem.

		Ultrasonic: A new method for condition monitoring - 10/22/09 Reliable Plant, October 2009 By R. P. Naik, Raipur, National Thermal Power Corporation A new technique called ultrasonic condition monitoring is now available which can detect even incipient faults in bearings as well as adequacy of lubricant. At the National Thermal Power Corporation’s Sipat plant in India, we are relying on only vibration measurement as a basic technique for condition monitoring of bearings.

		Online Monitoring Pays Off - 10/22/09 Chemical Processing, October 2009 By Casey A. Connolly, Gulf Chemical, and Frank Mignano, SKF Gulf Chemical expanded a sophisticated wireless condition monitoring system from SKF Reliability Systems. The process began in late 2007 with a limited trial and ultimately led to deployment of a highly advanced online system to monitor dozens of critical assets. Total documented savings exceeded system cost within the first year.

		LXI-Based Instrumentation Connects and Synchronizes Hundreds of Data Test Points - 10/19/09 Machine Design, October 2009 By Robert Repas LXI instrumentation lets test engineers gather millions of data sample points over a few seconds when testing aircraft landing gear.

		Flow Line's flow transmitter goes to Hawaii - 10/15/09 Sopogy of Hawaii uses the MEMFlo MFT flow transmitter in its solar air conditioning systems.

		Sensonics installs vibration monitors in China - 10/10/09 Process & Control Today, October 2009 SENSONICS installed DN26 series vibration and speed monitors at Shanghai Boasteel, the largest iron and steel company in China. The two systems installed monitor bearing vibration of de-dusting and sintering fans providing online condition monitoring and shutdown protection.

		ABB solves transmitter erosion problem at nickel ore processing mill - 10/07/09 Highly abrasive nickel ore slurry flow at a Canadian Xstrata nickel ore processing mill caused serious erosion of metallic diaphragms in pressure transmitters. So ABB coated the transmitters.

		Sierra Instruments flow meters control aquarium at Monterey Bay Research - 09/28/09 Sierra mass flow controllers help conduct experiments to discover how rapidly increasing atmospheric CO2 levels are affecting the enormous variety of marine animals in our seas.

		Emerson's pH sensors monitor wastewater at Belgian metal plant - 09/21/09 Umicore Precious Metals Refining (UPMR) uses Rosemount Analytical PERpH-X 3400HTVP pH sensors to monitor waste water at its Hoboken plant near Antwerp, Belgium.

		Emerson automates Bunge rapeseed oil processing plant - 09/17/09 Emerson's DeltaV, PlantWeb, AMS software, valves and instruments helped increase production by 10%, cut maintenance costs by 50% and reduce utilities and raw materials at a rapeseed oil processing plant in Kruszwica, Poland.

		Distributed Temperature Sensing in Geothermal Energy Applications - 09/16/09 Sensors, September 2009 By Mikko Jaaskelainen, SensorTran Geothermal power is expanding beyond the edges of tectonic plates aided by distributed temperature sensing (DTS) that, through DTS' measurement of subsurface temperature, enables improved subsurface visualization for Enhanced Geothermal System power plants.

		Circuit Makers - 09/16/09 Vision System Design, September 2009 By Winn Hardin With recent upgrades to its thermistor manufacturing line, GE Sensing decided to upgrade the aging analog machine-vision system to a digital system that could perform additional inspection checks with less downtime and maintenance. Aptúra Machine Vision Solutions designed an inspection system for thermistor tape reels using three PPT Vision Impact smart cameras networked to a PC.

		Joy of soy flow integration - 09/13/09 InTech, September 2009 By Tim Foster and Rob Swim Green Planet Farms’ soy protein isolate (SPI) manufacturing facility in South Sioux City, NE (USA), uses flowmeters to measure the flow of process water (which is one of the ingredients in the process) and to measure product inside the process for process control.

		Yokogawa power meter measures transformer losses - 09/13/09 Process and Control Today, September 2009 The Yokogawa WT3000 digital power analyser is at the heart of a test system being used by Smit Transformers NV, one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of high-power transformers for power distribution networks, to provide accurate measurement of power losses.

		Frequency inverters unstick glue production - 09/13/09 Process and Control Today, August 2009 Grosvenor Chemicals in the UK had been experiencing problems with their PVA emulsion pumps. All too frequently motors were burning out and the resulting downtime was costly. Lenze inverters allowed the previously fixed pump speed to be adjusted and built-in thermal monitoring of the motors cut out the downtime problem.

		Accurate Online Silica Analyzers Ensure Boiler Performance, Add Boiler Life - 09/13/09 Power, September 2009 By Andres Meza Plant engineers are adept at managing and maintaining aged equipment at the Michoud power station, near New Orleans, USA. From November 2006 to November 2007, the generating station’s two units were off line less than 116 hours. Why? The plant closely monitors silica in the steam-water cycle.

		A Wireless Vibration Monitoring System - 09/13/09 Power Engineering, September 2009 By Gregg W. Rebenstorf, Southern California Edison Southern California Edison installed a wireless vibration monitoring system at its Mountainview Generating Station in Redlands, CA. The system was installed on all 4.16 kV critical pumps, compressors and motor drivers as well as critical 480V water treatment equipment as part of a predictive maintenance program.

		Florida Rock cuts production costs using particle size analysis - 09/01/09 Florida Rock Industries uses a model predictive control package from Pavilion Technologies and a particle size analyzer from Malvern Instruments.

		Case studies in data analysis through predictive maintenance - 08/27/09 Reliable Plant, August 2009 Case studies represent vibration analysis of bearing faults, unbalanced conditions and impact testing for natural frequencies.

		Centrifugal compressor thermodynamic performance monitoring and analysis - 08/24/09 Energy Tech, August 2009 By Patrick J. Smith Condition-based monitoring involves regularly assessing the machine condition and taking action only if a potential problem is identified. This article describes how condition monitoring was used on a 2,000 HP, 3-stage integral gear type centrifugal compressor.

		Solvay Solexis standardizes on Micro Motion Coriolis mass flowmeters - 08/18/09 The mass flowmeters improve process repeatability, reduce commissioning costs by 75 per cent, and lower maintenance costs by 95 percent.

		Mission-critical control at Parnell pharmaceuticals plant - 08/16/09 Process & Control Engineering, August 2009 By Sarah Falson Equipment for the New South Wales laboratory and manufacturing facility is from Wonderware (HMI and historian); Rockwell Automation (PLC); HachUltra (particle counters); Vaisala (humidity instruments); Titan (pressure transmitters); and HP (servers and PCs).

		Emerson wireless network saves rotating reactor - 08/16/09 Process & Control Engineering, July 2009 By Scott Wilson A network of Emerson Smart Wireless instruments on the rotating reactor at Kwinana now help to deliver reliable pressure and temperature measurements, preventing frequent reactor breakdowns and lost production time.

		It’s In The Bag With Robotic Assembly - 08/16/09 Process and Control Today, August 2009 The production rate for assembling and testing air bag sensors for the automotive industry has been greatly increased by 4 and 6-axis robots. Altec Engineering built a new manufacturing and testing machine for TRW Automotive uses two VS-6577G-B and one HS-45452G DENSO robots from AA Robotics.

		Rockview Farms Controls Dairy Processing with In-line Near Infrared Analyzer - 08/16/09 Process and Control Today, August 2009 Rockview Farms of Downey, California, chose ESE's Q5i Near Infrared (NIR) In-line Analyzer for improving quality control during the fluid milk standardization process.

		Max-Trak Mass Flow Meters Help Brewer Keep Its Head - 08/16/09 Process and Control Today, July 2009 Sierra’s Max Trak 180 mass flow meter allows accurate measurement and control of air and gas. It is being used by Orval to precisely measure the injection of nitrogen into its beer to create the perfect head

		Infrared furnace camera watches hydro reformers at Bayernoil refinery - 08/16/09 Process and Control Today, July 2009 Reformer reactors need a constant supply of heat of up to 510 ºC, which is provided by furnaces and carried by heat piping systems. An Infrared camera for industrial high temperature applications in hazardous areas has been developed by FLIR to keep these installations up and running efficiently.

		Laser particle sampling at Paraburdoo iron ore - 08/16/09 What’s New in Process Technology, August 2009 An Outotec PSI 500 particle size analyser at Rio Tinto Iron Ore at Paraburdoo, Australia, monitors feeds from the cyclones to the thickener, and gives infinitely better process control than typical intermittent manual sampling methods

		Can’t stand the heat? - 08/14/09 Control Engineering Europe, July 2009 A hired infrared camera from Ashtead Technology was used during research trials on aircraft landing gear at Cambridge Airport. A Flir P620 ThermaCam on a short-term hire was used by Marshall Aerospace to assess landing gear brake disc and tyre temperatures.

		Turning up the temperature - 08/14/09 Control Engineering Europe, July 2009 Dependability and reliability are essential quality criteria for wind power equipment. At the heart of these products and installations are a group of critical yet often hidden components such as magnetostrictive transducers and sensors used for pitch control, yaw position, speed indicators, lock pin positions and level/leak detection.

		Tennis in the rain thanks to engineering feat - 08/14/09 Control Engineering Europe, July 2009 Rain couldn’t stop play on Wimbledon’s centre court this year as a new closing roof protected the matches below from the inclement British weather. Sick provided linear encoders for each of the ten 77m long, 100 tonne roof trusses.

		ABB analyzers improve gasoline blending at Bahrain Petroleum - 08/13/09 An ABB FTIR analyzer was installed in November 2008 at the 250,000 barrel a day oil refinery of Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) in the Middle East.

		ABB maintains petrochemical plant in Argentina - 08/10/09 ABB reduced the maintenance costs of Solvay Indupa’s PVC plant in Argentina by 20 percent while preserving high levels of equipment availability and reliability.

		Smart instruments in safety instrumented systems - 07/21/09 InTech, July 2009 By Tom Nobes The U.K.'s largest nuclear site operator implements IEC61508 and finds the quality of instrument firmware to be variable, but improving.

		Camera-based gauge can replace PSDs - 07/16/09 Vision Systems Design, July 2009 Researchers have developed a vision solution with embedded computing for distance measurement that eliminates errors associated with surface tilt and surface shape in manufacturing process-control applications. The standoff camera system determines the distance between the processing tip and the surface at the point of process.

		UPS protection for oil and gas platform off the South African coast - 07/16/09 Oil & Gas Engineering News, July 2009 British company Carter Sullivan built a UPS to ensure that on-board gas detection sensors and safety systems remain operational during power outages. The company designed and manufactured an IP54 rated enclosure complete with in-built temperature controlled cooling systems.

		Emerson improves production efficiency for Pernod Ricard Nordic - 07/15/09 Emerson was responsible for the front-end engineering and design (FEED), and installation of PlantWeb, DeltaV, HART communications, AMS software and intelligent devices.

		Guided radar displaces displacer at crude tar plant - 07/10/09 What’s New in Process Technology, July 2009 By Endress + Hauser Australia Pungent-smelling, viscous and abrasive, crude tar is the by-product of the coal used in coke ovens in the steel manufacturing process. Given its aggressive chemical properties and high process temperatures, ensuring minimal downtime at a crude tar refining plant can be a challenge.

		Pressure Monitoring in Milk Production - 07/09/09 Process & Control Today, July 2009 The Nestlé research centre in Konolfingen, Switzerland, develops milk-based constitutional food products. The pressure monitoring at the heat exchangers in the testing facility is conducted by Baumer pressure transmitters, which are equipped with hygienic process connections made of stainless steel.

		Online condition monitoring system checks remote pumping station - 07/09/09 Process & Control Today, June 2009 UK’s Environment Agency installed a FAG online condition monitoring system at one of its remote pumping stations in Winestead near Hull to enable its engineers to make key asset management decisions regarding two critical floodwater pumps.

		Quality management at Niederegger supported by checkweighers By Mettler Toledo Niederegger produces marzipan products, which depend on the exact ratio of almonds to sugar. A GARVENS S3 checkweigher ensures that the Niederegger products are the correct weight.

		Jägermeister uses weighing technology to check cordial By Mettler Toledo The cordial Jägermeister is made from a total of 56 herbs, blossoms and roots and has always been produced and bottled in Wolfenbüttel. GARVENS supplied weighing technology for checking the end-of-line packaging process where the weight of cartons is verified.

		Valenzi focuses on product quality with checkweighers By Mettler Toledo Valenzi processes mushrooms and forest fruits to produce preserves and frozen products. To perform legally required weight checks, the company relies on the inline checkweighing technology of Mettler-Toledo Garvens.

		Monitoring ensures paper mill's pumps keep producing power - 06/24/09 Reliable Plant, June 2009 Grays Harbor Paper LP installed Timken’s StatusCheck system to monitor three boiler feedwater pumps and associated motors that operate the turbines. The wireless system checks operating conditions of critical components such as bearings and then issues alerts via e-mail or text messages when it detects excessive temperatures or vibration levels.

		Smart wireless solutions solve compliance and complexity issues - 06/24/09 European Chemical Engineer, June 2009 Two European chemical companies have turned to smart wireless solutions: the first to help meet local environmental regulations and the second to improve condition monitoring of filters.

		The Importance of Metal Detectors in Your Process - 06/20/09 Pharmaceutical Processing, June 2009 By Ryan Titmas, Sartorius Mechatronics Even in a well-managed, thoroughly automated and mechanized facility, the possibility of the product becoming contaminated with metal at some point in the production process is very probable. To prevent this from happening, metal detection and rejection systems are now essential in the process stream.

		Non-invasive Wireless Monitoring Provides Fast Payback - 06/20/09 Chemical Processing, June 2009 By Chris Stubbs, Genentech Wireless Steam Trap Monitors (WSTM) were placed on 56 traps at a cost of $42,000. The WSTMs provide early indication of steam leakage or blockage, which leads to failure. Data were collected on a “blue box” server for trending analysis

		Level sensor in Thames trial - 06/16/09 Control Engineering Europe, June 2009 Hydrologists have implemented a radar water level sensor in an application that manages the water level at a site by Molesey Lock on the River Thames in the UK. Water level measurements are taken at the lock for onward transmission to the Environment Agency’s offices via a PSTN telephone and inclusion in the national archive.

		Fire detection on electric mountain - 06/16/09 HazardEX, May 2009 It isn’t every day you need to specify a fire detection system for an industrial complex inside a mountain – but that was the challenge facing International Power, owners of Dinorwig Power Station near Snowdonia National Park in North Wales.

		Online condition monitoring system helps manage remote pumping station - 06/16/09 Process & Control Today, June 2009 The Environment Agency in the UK installed an FAG online condition monitoring system at one of its remote pumping stations in Winestead near Hull to enable its engineers to make key asset management decisions regarding two critical floodwater pumps.

		Valve diagnostics enable cost reduction at Iggesund Paperboard - 06/15/09 Unplanned valve-related shutdowns have been eliminated, operational costs reduced, and maintenance time cut by using Emerson/Fisher control valve diagnostic technologies.

		Equipment Maintenance: Thermal Imaging Changes the Picture - 06/02/09 Chemical Processing, May 2009 By Jeff Fleming, CMC icos Biologics Until 2008 an outside contractor performed all our thermal scans, which provided baselines for subsequent monitoring of critical equipment. That year we brought thermography in house for semi-annual preventive maintenance inspections and troubleshooting equipment issues and process problems.

		How Ultrasound Technology Was Used To Locate Low Level Leaks In Heat Exchangers By Alan S. Bandes, UE Systems Mason Manufacturing, fabricates a variety of pressure vessels and heat exchangers for chemical, food and grain processors. When confronted with a potentially difficult situation that involved locating low level leaks in a particular shell-in-tube heat exchanger they were fabricating, Mason used ultrasound.

		Averting furnace explosions South Africa Instrumentation and Control, May 2009 The Tasmanian Electro Metallurgical Company (TEMCO) in Australia has four electric arc furnaces which, due to their sporadic nature, can experience explosions without any warning. These submerged arc furnaces are identified as the most dangerous furnaces in the world. A Siemens LDS6 laser gas analyzer solved the problem.

		Displacement sensor provides ultra-high resolution for nanopositioning Process and Control Today, April 2009 Attocube systems makes nano-positioning systems to enable the positioning and scanning of objects with atomic resolution. Attocube is using two capaNCDT 6300 CSH1FL capacitive displacement sensors from Micro-Epsilon to measure the travel displacement of test items that need to be moved in the nanometre range.

		Sensor measures size and shape of pipe girth welds HazardEx, April 2009 Optical Metrology Services integrated Micro-Epsilon’s scanCONTROL 2700 laser profile sensor on its Internal Weld Scanning Tool. This tool is used to internally scan welds inside pipes – both visually and dimensionally – enabling engineers to quickly and confidently assess the quality of the root weld.

		Exact Level Measurement in spite of Foaming Control Engineering Europe, May 2009 In food industry processes, frothing appears as an undesirable side effect that can lead to problems especially if it influences the level measurement. Baumer’s LSM level switch uses electromagnetic waves, so it only reacts after the actual filling capacity has been reached.

		Southern Water cleans up Control Engineering Europe, April 2009 Forty ABB 4670 series turbidity monitors were installed in boreholes at water treatment sites across the region in the south of England. Water is extracted from the boreholes and fed to treatment works.

		58 flowmeters head for furnace application Control Engineering Europe, April 2009 Fives Stein is insuring the correct oxygen to fuel ratio in its industrial furnaces, used in the production of fibreglass, with 58 Sierra Max-Trak flowmeters. The meters are used in two furnaces – one fuelled by natural gas, the other by LPG.

		WirelessHART sensors monitor flow on StatoilHydro Gullfaks platforms - 05/20/09 90 wireless transmitters from Emerson are automating flow monitoring to increase production on StatoilHydro's Gullfaks offshore platforms in the northern part of the Norwegian North Sea.

		BP uses SIL 2 VEGA radar level transmitters for floating roof tanks - 05/19/09 The 4-20mA/HART loop-powered devices are being used by BP Oil for one of their latest tank farm upgrade projects. Multiple radar units check that a floating roof maintains a perfectly horizontal plane.

		Genentech Gets More Wireless, Less Worry Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, April 2009 By Chris Stubbs, Genentech Genentech identified steam traps as equipment that could benefit from a performance-based maintenance strategy. Cypress Envirosystems installed a non-invasive monitoring solution, in which devices are clamped onto existing instrumentation to collect and wirelessly transmit data to a server for trending and alarming.

		Technology Targets Towers Chemical Processing, April 2009 By Seán Ottewell A modified Rosemount 3051S, a scalable device that typically handles integrated pressure, flow and level measurements around the plant, is being used at the University of Texas Austin to provide early warning about flooding in distillation columns.

		Wireless Proves its Worth Chemical Processing, April 2009 By Tim Gerami, PPG Industries, and Jerry Moon, Emerson Process Management The PPG Lake Charles, La., facility is one of the world's largest producers of chlorine, caustic soda and vinyl chloride. The cost for introducing wired instruments in many remote areas of the 765-acre site is prohibitive; wiring would run from $20/foot to many times that. Wireless devices now supply data from numerous points that never could have been justified otherwise.

		Measuring process humidity for optimal product quality Chemical Engineer, April 2009 Kemira Oyj's paper chemicals plant in Vaasa, Finland, produces polyacrylamides for customers in the global and domestic pulp and paper industry. They installed nine Vaisala humidity transmitters to monitor the whole drying process.

		Air Products installs GE wireless monitoring system - 05/05/09 The new system is helping improve operational efficiency and productivity by providing a way to reliably monitor, diagnose and maintain water equipment and processes.

		Rockwell Automation controls Green Planet Farms food plant - 04/30/09 PlantPAx process automation system manages more than 100 batch and continuous process phases. System includes HMI software, instrumentation and wireless equipment.

		Emerson's wireless network monitors Irish gas transmission pipeline - 04/27/09 Rosemount wireless transmitters include five measuring pressure, one differential pressure, and one temperature; each measurement point has redundant communication to the RTU via two or three routes.

		MacroView despatch system automates truck loading at Coogee Chemicals PACE, March 2009 Coogee Chemicals installed a MacroView system to automate their truck loading system in Kwinana, Western Australia. The new system automates the process of loading trucks over their weigh bridge, replacing the previously manual process.

		Condition monitoring at UK steel mill pays off - 04/26/09 Process and Control Today, April 2009 The Corus Skinningrove steel mill used to manually inspect bearings by shutting down the rolling mill, and disassembling the bearing housings. Now they use an eight-channel FAG DTECT X1 vibration monitoring system from Schaeffler UK. The system discovered two bearing faults on two separate occasions within the first week of operation.

		Encoders survive fishy application Process and Control Today, April 2009 Baader company, based in Lübeck, North Germany, makes machines that can completely skin and fillet fish. Encoders from Wachendorff are used to measure and profile the fish, and then control fish movement during processing. The fishy encoders survive salt water and cold temperatures.

		Metal Detector Is Sensitive About Safety IEN, March 2009 As a manufacturer of flavor particulates supplying many of the top food processing companies worldwide, Quali Tech takes product quality and food safety very seriously. The Gravity FlowHD metal detector from from Mettler-Toledo Safeline removes all tramp metal contamination from dry, free-flowing bulk product lines.

		Pick-to-Light Sensor Error-Proofs Assembly IEN, March 2009 TG-Missouri Corp. needed to effectively mistake-proof its assembly processes. Omron designed a poka-yoke system based on pick-to-light sensors. The popular Japanese mistake-proofing method known as “poka-yoke” gives an assembler the opportunity to correct an error in parts picking at the least expensive point in the process.

		Effective machine monitoring without the frills Design Products & Applications, April 2009 The GSM module fitted to WERMA’s standard 24V KS71 signal tower provides a simple and cost effective method monitoring a machine or critical storage area from a remote location. The mobile ‘phone transmitter unit is fitted to a standard KS71 signal tower and is able to send a simple text message to one or more recipients that the machine monitored by the tower has gone into fault mode.

		Torque measurement is central to development of ‘intelligent’ lubrication Design Products & Applications, April 2009 Engine lubrication systems are dumb. A non-contact torque sensor from Sensor Technology is helping Powertrain Technologies in their project to develop an intelligent automotive engine lubrication system, which aims to reduce emissions and improve fuel economy.

		Wireless Steam Trap Energy Savings Automated Buildings, March 2009 By Harry Sim, Cypress Envirosystems Instead of performing manual audits, facility managers can now use wireless technology to detect steam trap failures almost immediately, and to repair or replace the defective units. The amount of steam wasted in this case would be a small fraction of an undetected leak.

		Troubleshooting A Nuke Power Station’s Valve Problems with Acoustic Emission Maintenance Technology, March 2009 By Joseph Dimmick, Leak Detection Services Emergency Core Cooling System (ECCS) piping must be verified full of water once every 31 days, but Wolf Creek failed the test. Which of the 30 valves were leaking? Acoustic emission testing found nine culprits.

		Measuring Pressure in Steam Sterilizers Control Engineering, March 2009 By Andrew Sim, Baumer, U.K A manufacturer of large steam sterilizers, Belimed Sauter AG relies on pressure transmitters to ensure performance and safety through constantly changing temperature conditions.

		A pipeline full of data—on a single wire Control Engineering Europe, March 2009 Facing tightening environmental and regulatory requirements, a municipal water jurisdiction in Canada designed a first-case leak detection and monitoring system. HART technology is key to cost-effectiveness.

		Analyze this Control Engineering Europe, March 2009 AS Pontes, a coal-fired power station in Spain, installed four Servomex Fluegas analysers to monitor post-combustion levels of oxygen and carbon monoxide and thereby enable the combustion process to be continuously fine-tuned.

		Process Monitoring in Fruit Juice Company Process & Control Today, March 2009 The Serious Food Company, a British supplier of fruit juices and smoothies, unified their process monitoring applications with pressure, temperature, level and conductivity instruments supplied by Baumer Group, who developed a specific universal process connection system ensuring high flexibility for the whole site.

		The big cheese InTech, March 2009 By Ellen Fussell Policastro Alpine Slicing & Cheese Conversion. The company provides slicing, cutting, and packaging services to cheese producers nationwide, so it is important to detect any metal in the shavings. Alpine uses a variable-frequency metal detector from Loma Systems.

		Wireless technology enables online filter monitoring - 03/17/09 Emerson's wireless technology is enabling INEOS to monitor filters within polyethylene pellet transportation tubes. Eight Rosemount 3051S DP wireless transmitters were installed as well as a single Emerson Smart Wireless gateway.

		Brooks Instrument sends Quantim Flow Controller into space - 03/08/09 Quantim Coriolis mass flow controller is currently being installed into a laboratory glove box on the International Space Station.

		Wireless transmitters monitor river water temperatures at Lenzing Fibers - 03/05/09 Emerson's wireless temperature transmitters enable the company to meet local government regulations related to the temperature of water discharged into rivers and watercourses.

		Resistance Temperature Detectors at a Hydro Plant Power Engineering, February 2009 By Ed Sullivan A Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories SEL-2600A temperature monitoring scheme is used at a dam and power plant for alarm and trip functions. Temperature data are passed to the plant data control system via Modbus communications from the SEL 300G to the plant remote terminal unit. Stator temperature data are available locally and at the main control center that is more than 60 miles away.

		Infrared thermometers in industry South Africa Instrumentation & Control, February 2009 By R & C Instrumentation During the last five years the IR sensor market has seen two major trends. Firstly, IR thermometers are significantly lower in cost. Secondly, IR sensors are becoming smaller in size.

		Condition of Steam Cracker monitored with wireless HazardEx, January 2009 Emerson Process Management is helping to provide condition monitoring information at the Total Petrochemicals plant in Carling Saint Avold, France. Wireless transmitters provides temperature measurement data, enabling the company to calculate changes over time in wall thickness on a boiler that provides steam to a steam cracker, enabling personnel to anticipate when it may need replacement.

		Water cooled and stainless Food Engineering, February 2009 By Kevin T. Higgins How Stainless Motors in New Mexico built 400hp water-cooled motors fabricated in stainless steel for Beef Products. The motors run at cooler temperatures and generate tens of thousands of dollars worth of hot water. RTDs measure temperature at key points.

		Measuring airtight pressure tanks Control Engineering Europe, January 2009 Baumer Bourdon-Haenni supplies Belimed, which manufactures sterilizers for the hygienic sector, with pressure monitoring devices for the production of autoclaves. Several hundred devices, with clamp process connections from the ED 701 line, have been delivered to Belimed Sauter over the last year.

		Paper plant ups productivity, cuts errors Control Engineering Europe, January 2009 St. Regis Paper boosted production 17 per cent and cut errors by 63 per cent at a UK mill after implementing a new process control solution from ABB. The 800xA system includes QC and scanning measurement systems and the integration of existing motor control centres, variable speed drives and instrumentation.

		Cagnazzi Racing uses Fluke thermal imager in drag races - 02/04/09 Cagnazzi Racing uses a Fluke Ti25 to spot the borders of the cooler track area, so they can set the cars up to avoid making the critical shift to second gear as they cross the transition zone.

		Coriolis flow meter monitors evaporation phase in ethanol production By Endress + Hauser An ethanol plant in northern Indiana used a Coriolis flow meter to replace a liquid chromatography measurement and monitor the grade of product for a target of 195 and 200 proof.

		Coriolis mass flow meter measures density, controls flow By Endress + Hauser A major Midwest corn refining operation with existing volumetric flow meters used density and mass flow measurement in its light and heavy steepwater processes.

		Coriolis flowmeter provides tank level calibration Pharmaceutical manufacturer uses a Coriolis flowmeter to perform periodic calibration for a continuous tank level transmitter to meet FDA requirements.

		Coriolis mass flow meter measures liquid Carbon Dioxide By Endress + Hauser By incorporating a Coriolis mass flow meter in this application, the customer is able to track true mass flow from the pressurized liquid stream at -140°F during the filling process of truck and rail cars.

		Virtual Plant Provides Real Insights Chemical Processing, January 2009 By Gregory K. McMillan, et al Today, many pH control systems are operating in manual or severely oscillating in automatic. Effective automatic pH control often should be possible — this belief led to a project at Monsanto’s Luling, La., plant to improve a pH control system for wastewater.

		Emerson automates China’s Huaneng coal-fired power plant - 01/26/09 Emerson installed an Ovation expert control system, Smart Wireless, AMS Suite predictive maintenance software, and Rosemount wireless pressure and temperature transmitters.

		Vision Systems Ensure Quality of Medical Devices Assembly, January 2009 At the B. Braun Medical assembly plant in Penang, Malaysia, a high-resolution vision system from PPT Vision inspects more than 60 different needle assemblies ranging from 25 to 100 millimeters in length. The system takes several measurements of each assembly, including the length and insertion depth of the needle, the straightness of the needle, and the bevel angle of the tip.

		Analyzing Critical Flow Measurements Control Engineering, January 2009 By Jim Ralston and Scott Monton, ProSoft Technology Part 2: Custody transfer of fuel products demands sophisticated flow analysis beyond volume readings. Two users discuss their applications.

		ABB interferometer to blast into space aboard IBUKI satellite - 01/21/09 The satellite will be carrying an interferometer developed by a team of 15 specialists, comprised primarily of mechanical, electrical and software engineers, physicians, opticians and technicians.

		Smart Wireless network monitors treated water usage - 01/21/09 E.ON Kingsnorth, a 1940MW generating facility in Kent, UK, uses Rosemount wireless transmitters to collect flow measurement data from flowmeters installed throughout the turbine hall.

		Instrument Mounting and Manifold System Power Engineering, November 2008 By Ed Malone, Athens Generating Plant Parker Instrumentation’s CCIMS mounting system for process transmitters is helping to improve control system maintenance at Athens Generating Plant in Athens, N.Y. The system replaces traditional impulse line assemblies with an integrated manifold assembly that allows the plant’s engineers to “clip” an instrument on or off in minutes, simplifying routine calibration and emergency changeover in the event of a failure.

		Optimising performance of bed level thickeners PACE, December 2008 By John Immelman, Endress+Hauser Using an FMM50 for bed level monitoring and the Cerabar M for bed mass measurement ensures reduced flocculant consumption, improved thickener efficiency, and lowers overall water wastage – all very important criteria of modern mining.

		Wireless technology used to achieve scotch compliance HazardEX, November 2008 Invensys Process Systems implemented a wireless solution that will help William Grant & Sons, a distiller in Scotland, to control and monitor ground water flow and level in boreholes to meet UK rules.

		World’s fourth longest rail tunnel gets gas protection HazardEX, December 2008 Protection from gas hazards in the 28km long Guadarrama Tunnel in Spain is being provided by monitoring systems from Crowcon Detection Instruments. The Crowcon systems detect potentially flammable and toxic gases before they reach hazardous levels.

		Wireless sensors monitor reaction tank at Nu-West Industries Emerson's wireless system monitor pressures and temperatures from 16 points on a reaction tank located about 250 feet from the central control room.

		Enameled pH transmitter installed at dairy Process & Control Today, December 2008 Burkert’s 8201 pH system and 8285 transmitter have been chosen by Müller’s for the largest dairy in Europe, after 10 months of testing against a major competitor’s unit. The unit is used in Müller’s whey treatment process, where the whey undergoes ultra- and nano-filtration and reverse osmosis.

		Radar level sensor works in nuclear power plant TDR radar level measuring systems supplied by Hycontrol are playing a tiny yet vital role in the long term decommissioning of the Dounreay nuclear plant, currently being carried out by the UKAEA. Systems have been installed to measure the levels in vessels containing toxic, hazardous and radiological inventory.

		Overfill protection ensures Bostik don’t come unstuck Process & Control Today, December 2008 A multi-point alarm overfill protection system, installed on latex and bitumen based storage tanks by Hycontrol, is playing a crucial safety role at Bostik’s manufacturing plant in the UK. Hycontrol’s RF level switches and ATEX vibrating probes prevent hazardous overfilling of Bitumen.

		Level measuring system helps mint chocolate manufacturer Process & Control Today, December 2008 A Hycontrol multi-point level measurement and monitoring system, fitted to stainless steel chocolate tanks, is playing a crucial role at Bendicks of Mayfair’s factory in the UK. The system provides local contents displays where the tanks are filled, and contents and usage trend information can be viewed remotely throughout the plant.

		Bayernoil refinery uses FLIR GasFindIR to detect leaks Process & Control Today, December 2008 The Bayernoil refinery complex in southern Germany uses FLIR GasFindIR to find fugitive emissions and minimize hydrocarbon gas discharges from piping systems and near flange gaskets.

		A WAVE in a cup Control Engineering Europe, December 2008 Premier Foods manufactures packaged meals and soups in the UK. Level probes control the level of feed hoppers that supply the packing machines to fill sachets. These machines run at speeds from 160 to 600 packages per minute. Feed hoppers vary in size and use various agitators and vibrators to flow the powders.

		Wireless technology monitors Chevron oil field operations - 01/08/09 Chevron uses Emerson Smart Wireless networks to monitor its steam injection process and measure down-hole well pressures.

		Hella uses WISA wireless to assemble headlights By ABB Hella’s plant in Wichita Falls, TX, was plagued with defective signal cables on a weekly basis. Hella replaced the previous I/O module on the transfer slide by a wireless I/O pad with WISA technology from ABB.

		Microbial maintenance InTech, December 2008 By David Hillyer and James Cox, Eli Lilly Asset management software simplifies maintenance in biotech facility. During a recent expansion at an Eli Lilly facility, we made use of technology to improve instrument and control valve reliability and reduce time-based maintenance.

		Straight to the point InTech, December 2008 By Jody Damron and Laura Somak, Salt River Project The Power Generation Instrument & Control Application is saving time and money for Salt River Project. It includes a shared integration of the Instrument Index, DCS, Circuit and Raceway Schedules, Line Book, document management system, and asset management software.

		Malvern particle image analyzer monitors abrasive slurries - 12/16/08 FPIA-3000 monitors the deterioration of abrasive slurries used in the wire saw cutting process in solar cell production.

		Vega level sensors monitor level of feed hoppers - 12/10/08 VEGAWAVE level switches monitor soup packaging machine at Batchelor foods.

		He who weighs, wins Control Engineering Europe, December 2008 The emptying of 23 grain silos at the Hildebrandmühlen in Mannheim was previously controlled by flow metering and dosing units. However, because the dosing electronics were obsolete and spare parts procurement became increasingly expensive and difficult, it was decided to replace them with modern Siwarex weighing processors.

		Distillery goes digital with Memosens pH sensors Control Engineering Europe, November 2008 For the Glenfiddich Distillery, accuracy of the pH measurement in the outdoor effluent tanks must meet requirements of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency. After installation of Memosens pH sensors, Glenfiddich experiences fewer failures due to moisture ingress and achieves more accurate pH measurement.

		ABB Flow Meter Improves Control at Paper Mill Process and Control Today, November 2008 UPM Caledonian Paper uses an ABB AC-Master flow meter for online control of the thick stock flow to a paper machine, this measurement being critical in ensuring the paper is produced at the correct grade and quality. If the flow meter is unstable it can result in irregularities in the basis weight of the paper.

		Micro-Epsilon sensor systems inspect flat glass Process and Control Today, November 2008 Two new measuring stations supplied by Micro-Epsilon are being used by glass manufacturer SCHOTT AG, to inspect the dimensional accuracy and edge quality of flat glass at the company’s manufacturing plant in Jena, Germany.

		Emerson wireless transmitters monitor steam cracker at Total Petrochemicals - 12/03/08 Eight Rosemount 648 wireless temperature transmitters were installed directly onto the exterior of a boiler drum situated fifty metres above the ground.

		Data acquisition embedded in the Antarctic ice sheet Embedded Computing Design, November 2008 By Justin Vandenbroucke, Univ of California, Berkeley Embedded technologies help researchers control, monitor, and acquire data from systems located at an almost completely inaccessible site where winter temperatures sometimes reach -80 °C.

		Bioscience goes wireless Industrial Embedded Systems, November 2008 By Steve Toteda, Dust Networks Fisher BioServices adopted the GE Sensing Kaye LabWatch wireless sensor network to automate data monitoring and collection at four of its biorepositories. LabWatch uses Dust Networks' embedded wireless network technology

		Steel mill keeps emissions in check Plant Services, November 2008 Using a Fluke 771, technicians measure the output of instruments and check it against DCS data to make sure emission-monitoring systems at a steel mill in the Northeast are working correctly.

		Using real-time particle size analysis for design optimisation Process Engineer, November 2008 By Alberto Ferrari and David Pugh On-line particle size measurement was used to optimise the development of an innovative milling circuit designed to deliver exceptional performance characteristics for an Italian granulates and powders manufacturer.

		Making the most of continuous online viscosity monitoring Process Engineer, November 2008 Viscosity measurement used to be a problem at Amcor's fibre packaging plant in Port Botany, Sydney. A Hydramotion XL7 online viscometer was installed on the discharge side of the service tank pump to monitor the mixture of fresh and recirculated starch in real time.

		Radar level system measures 19 tanks Process Industry Informer, October 2008 An ATEX-certified multi-point TDR radar level measuring and data recording system installed by Hycontrol is providing stock management information for chemical distributor Caldic UK. The VF series Guided Wave Radar Transmitters are fitted to Caldic’s nineteen 55,000 litre bulk storage vessels.

		Sensonics helps Romanian turbines run smoothly Process Industry Informer, October 2008 25 vibration monitoring systems have been installed in hydro turbine plants in Romania to provide measurements of absolute bearing vibration, shaft eccentricity, speed, and rotor to stator air gap.

		Variohm gives direction to extreme sport Process & Control Today, November 2008 Variohm EuroSensor is helping Latvian-based Hiberna Iceboards with its product development program to evaluate and design 80 kph speed-capable iceboards using dual axis tilt and compass sensors from AOSI.

		Instrumentation proves robust and reliable for AstraZeneca Process & Control Today, October 2008 Instrumentation from Georg Fischer, alongside the company’s pipelines, valves and fittings have provided a highly cost-effective solution at the Water Treatment Plant for the newly completed husbandry facility (Block M) at the AstraZeneca, Brixham Environmental Laboratory site in Devon.

		Research improves servo dynamics Control Engineering Europe, October 2008 The University of Manchester, UK, demonstrated servo systems with improved dynamics through research led by Dr Nigel Schofield, of the Power Conversion Group, using a Sensor Technology torque transducer.

		Research improves servo dynamics Control Engineering Europe, October 2008 The University of Manchester, UK, demonstrated servo systems with improved dynamics through research led by Dr Nigel Schofield, of the Power Conversion Group, using a Sensor Technology torque transducer.

		Emerson wireless network keeps bitumen pipeline hot - 11/10/08 Wireless instruments monitor heat-tracing on pipeline which must be hot to facilitate pumping.

		Emerson wireless monitors fuel and feedstock delivery at BP Bitumen - 11/06/08 Wireless instruments monitor the pipeline integrity of transfer lines from the BP refinery and report exceptional conditions to control room operators.

		ABTech uses Renishaw encloder in ultra-accurate lens measuring system - 11/03/08 ABTech Manufacturing built a five-axis platform for nanometer/sub-arcsec processing around Renishaw SiGNUM position encoders.

		MEMS for Tilt Measurement and Headlight Leveling Sensors, October 2008 By Andrew Glascott-Jones, e2v This article looks at the requirements of sensor systems for measuring tilt and pitch, for those in use now and for possible future MEMS-based systems. It also includes discussion of design issues facing the sensor interface electronics.

		Automotive MEMS sensor market to double Automotive MEMS sensor market to double Asia-Pacific Engineer, October 2008 iSuppli forecasts worldwide automotive MEMS sensor shipments will grow to 935.7 million units in 2012, rising at a rate of 12 per cent from 474.2 million units in 2006. Global auto MEMS sensor revenue will increase to $2.1 billion in 2012, increasing at a rate of 8 percent from $1.3 billion in 2006.

		Emerson wireless devices protect hot tanks at Hunt Refining - 10/29/08 Hot tanks at the refinery are fitted with wireless temperature transmitters as a cost-effective means of keeping control room operators informed of conditions inside the tanks.

		Emerson wireless prevents breakdowns at Coogee Chemicals - 10/27/08 Smart Wireless instruments mounted on a rotating reactor at Coogee Chemical Company, Kwinana, Australia, prevent frequent reactor breakdowns and lost production time.

		Emerson wireless improves wellhead monitoring at BP Wytch - 10/23/08 Wireless transmitters monitor wellhead annular pressure at BP’s Wytch Farm onshore oilfitters field.

		Flexifill uses ABB flowmeters in aseptic filling machines Process & Control Today, October 2008 Packaging specialist Flexifill is fitting COPA-XF electromagnetic flowmeters from ABB as standard on its aseptic bag-in-box filling machines for the food industry.

		Communicating from the HART By Adrienne Lutovsky, ProSoft Technology Valspar, a paint and coatings company, installed Micro Motion flow meters, a Rockwell Automation ControlLogix PAC, and ProSoft Technology’s EtherNet/IP-to-HART multi-drop communication gateway to connect everything.

		Emerson's wireless instruments monitor tanks at Technochem - 10/08/08 Fourteen Rosemount wireless pressure transmitters monitor levels in tanks at Technochem Environmental Complex Pte Ltd (TEC) in Singapore.

		Genzyme uses Emerson wireless to monitor temperature, pressure and level - 10/02/08 Genzyme uses wireless temperature, pressure, and level transmitters to protect product quality and to reduce waste at its Therapeutics enzyme manufacturing facility in Allston, MA.

		When the heat is on… Control Engineering Europe, September 2008 H.F.W. Plastics of Gateshead, UK, had repeated failure of M18 sensors used on moulding machines because of high temperatures. Two years ago they replaced the failing M18 devices with Contrinex DW-HD-603-M18-312 sensors that are rated at 180ºC and since then say there have been no sensor failures.

		ABB gas analyser replaces ancestor at underground substation Process and Control Today, September 2008 The Dinorwig hydroelectric substation in Snowdonia chose an ABB AK100 gas analyser to replace a 30-year-old gas detection system originally supplied by Kent. The system is designed to check for leaks of sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) from high-voltage contactors, where the gas is used as an insulator. Leaks could lead to both suffocation and dangerous arcing in the switchgear.

		Oxygen Measurement in Waste Gas for Effective Explosion Protection Process and Control Today, September 2008 Real-time monitoring of the oxygen concentration in waste gas plays a key role in explosion prevention. Using amperometric oxygen electrodes there is above all no need for complex and costly sample handling systems.

		Emerson controls acetylene bottle filling at SABIC - 09/23/08 PlantWeb digital plant architecture with FOUNDATION fieldbus and mass flowmeters reduces annual cost by €300,000 and improves production efficiency by 30 per cent at SABIC Europe B.V.

		MTS supplies sensors for high wall mining - 09/22/08 The sensors replace externally mounted pressure switches, infrared switches, and string potentiometers because magnetostrictive technology proved to be more durable and reliable.

		ABB gas analyser replaces ancestor at underground substation Process and Control Today, September 2008 The Dinorwig hydroelectric substation in Snowdonia chose an ABB AK100 gas analyser to replace a 30-year-old gas detection system originally supplied by Kent. The system is designed to check for leaks of sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) from high-voltage contactors, where the gas is used as an insulator. Leaks could lead to both suffocation and dangerous arcing in the switchgear.

		Oxygen Measurement in Waste Gas for Effective Explosion Protection Process and Control Today, September 2008 Real-time monitoring of the oxygen concentration in waste gas plays a key role in explosion prevention. Using amperometric oxygen electrodes there is above all no need for complex and costly sample handling systems.

		Gateway to process automation Control Engineering, September 2008 Valspar Corp. is the third largest paint and coatings company in North America. To handle its paint blending process, MMCI uses Emerson Process Micro Motion flowmeters, a Rockwell Automation process automation system, Ethernet communications, and a ControlLogix PAC.

		Oxygen Measurement in Waste Gas for Effective Explosion Protection Process & Control Today, September 2008 A large producer of specialty chemicals in Germany installed two METTLER TOLEDO oxygen analyzers in a new waste gas incinerator to identify possible explosion hazards. When burning process off-gases, oxygen content in the feedstock must at all times be lower than 1% by volume in order to rule out any risk of explosion or fire.

		Monitoring systems protect UK power generation Process Industry Informer, September 2008 Fawley Power Station oil fired power station provides 1000MW of generating capacity. Sensonics equipment measures differential expansion, shaft position and bearing vibration on the two 500MW steam turbine sets. Also included was an overspeed system, Sentry machine protection monitors, proximity eddy current probes, velocity transducers and LVDTs for casing expansion.

		Emerson‘s PlantWeb improves production at SABIC Europe South Africa Instrumentation & Control, September 2008 SABIC Europe improved the efficiency of acetylene production at its Geleen, SA, plant by 30%, thanks to control enabled by Emerson’s PlantWeb digital plant architecture, Foundation Fieldbus networked instruments, and a Micro Motion Coriolis flowmeter for direct measurement of mass flow.

		Solutions Engineering builds motor test station - 08/28/08 Solutions Engineering in the UK is able to test the performance of its motors, having built a test station around a TorqSense piezo electric torque transducer.

		Proximity Sensing Via Wireless Network Control Engineering, August 2008 A railcar wheel monitoring system shows how a wireless network sensor operates reliably in extreme temperatures, high vibration, and dirt, with five years between battery changes.

		Radar Transmitter Keeps Processes on the Level Control, August 2008 Three plants report long-term results with Sitrans LR200 radar level transmitters from Siemens, including Safety Kleen, Nucor and DuPont.

		Get Required Information on a Budget Automation World, August 2008 American Refining Group in Bradford, Pa., installed a wireless mesh sensor network from Emerson Process Management to monitor high-level alarm switches on tanks in its remote tank farm. American Refining has 24 wireless Emerson sensors right now, and its technicians are still adding and building network.

		Noise Monitors Check Leaks at Yorkshire Water Process Industry Informer, July/Aug 2008 Yorkshire Water installed 196 Permalog+ leak noise monitors in the Monk Bretton DMA in Barnsley as part of a pilot scheme. The DMA covers 45km of pipes of various materials. In the first 3 months, the average time taken to sweep the area for leaks was 25 hours, with more recent sweeps taking only 10. Using traditional methods the average had been 85 hours per sweep.

		Benefits In Practice – Northern Energy Services Ltd. Process Industry Informer, July/Aug 2008 Northern Energy Services in UK is using Beamex CMX Calibration Software and the MC5 Multifunction Calibrator to carry out instrument calibrations for its customers. Using the MC5 and CMX means that instructions on how to calibrate an instrument and the order in which to calibrate can all be downloaded to the handset while the engineer is out in the field.

		ABB Supplies Specialised Temperature Measurement Devices To Kuwait Process Industry Informer, July/Aug 2008 ABB supplied Q8 National Petroleum with twelve 23 m long multipoint temperature measuring devices for the refurbishment of Atmospheric Residue Desulfuriser Reactors in the Mina Abdulla Refinery in Kuwait. The multi sensing elements make measurements along the length and width of the Reactor.

		Sprint Electric 200XLV linear DC drive goes under water - 07/25/08 Sonomatic uses the Sprint Electric 200XLV low voltage linear DC drive to improve the accuracy of their Nautilus scanner, a diver-deployed automated ultrasonic system that can operate in depths of up to 250 metres.

		Leaky Boiler Leads to Safer Practices IEN, July 2008 After a recent carbon monoxide leak at an Erlanger, KY office complex, building management did not have to look far to find a gas detection solution. To provide early warning of any future leaks, management purchased Eikon portable personal detectors and Xgard fixed gas detectors from one of the building’s tenants, gas detection specialist Crowcon.

		Keeping a laser eye on particulates Power Engineering International, June 2008 Degradation of gas turbine inlet filters leads to corrosion of compressor blades and, ultimately, their catastrophic breakdown. Traditional methods of monitoring them first require the turbine to be taken offline, but one laser-based solution allows their real-time inspection during operation.

		Insitec on-line particle sizer checks clay at Arciblansa in Spain Process and Control Today, July 2008 Arciblansa is a supplier of atomized clay for porcelain tiles. The process stream being analyzed is a hot, viscous, highly concentrated, pressurized suspension which contains particles that are less than 200 microns in diameter. The analytical solution installed uses Malvern’s Insitec technology and includes fully automated sampling and sample preparation steps.

		Measuring Boiler and Furnace Temperatures By Paul Aloia, Summit Controls The conventional way of replacing thermocouples in a boiler or furnace requires shutting down the unit—an expensive proposition. Most companies will run with failed thermocouples until it’s time for a normal shutdown, and may suffer inefficiencies and lose their diagnostic capabilities. The solution—using flexible WORM temperature sensors—allows them to replace failed T/Cs from outside the boiler or furnace without shutting down.

		Measuring Molasses With a WORM By: Jayson Sorum, American Crystal Sugar How a clever instrumentation engineer solved a difficult measuring problem. A conventional rigid thermowell couldn’t measure the temperature of molasses in the bottom of a pipe because steam in the pipe was heating up the thermowell. So he installed a flexible WORM temperature sensor and immersed it in the molasses.

		Vishay installs Reel Optimizing System in European paper mill - 07/09/08 The Reel Optimizing System uses strain gage-based load cells to improve roll density by controlling the nip force throughout the entire reel spool change-over process.

		Flowmeter stabilizes control of process slurry - 07/07/08 By ABB Instrumentation Replacing a faulty magmeter with an AC magnetic flowmeter eliminated erratic flow signals and improved control of catalyst slurry flow.

		X-rays Reveal Hidden Flaws Assembly, June 2008 By John Sprovieri The proliferation of ball grid arrays and flip chips in electronic products has made automated X-ray inspection machines standard equipment in many electronics assembly lines. However, electronics assemblers are not the only manufacturers that can benefit from X-ray inspection technology.

		Flowmeters get the seal of approval at Tremco-Illbruck Process & Control Today, June 2008 Flowmeters from Trimec operate on process delivery lines at Tremco-Illbruck, who manufactures sealants for glazing, roofing and flooring applications in the construction industry. Previously mechanical flowmeters with independent presets had been used but these were hindering the process of improving control and were incompatible with the SCADA system being introduced.

		Where vision meets sensors What’s New in Process technology, June 2008 Sensor suppliers are now providing more sophisticated sensors and application techniques advancing up the curve towards vision solutions. Meanwhile, vision providers are trying to expand down the curve towards the discrete sensor world. But instead of a crash of technologies, there is evolving a new layer of technology that combines the best from each.

		EMX turns to Sensor Technology for TorqSense Control Engineering Europe, June 2008 EMX developed and tested the motor-generator for Lotus Engineering’s EVE (Efficient, Viable, Environmental) Hybrid. EMX worked with a test house to design a simple yet effective test rig. Its engineers specified a TorqSense torque sensor from Sensor Technology.

		Emerson automates world's largest pulp mill - 06/18/08 The PlantWeb solution includes DeltaV, 3300 FOUNDATION fieldbus, Profibus DP and DeviceNet devices, MCCs, PLCs, Modbus, Fisher valves with Fisher FIELDVUE digital valve controllers, and AMS Suite.

		Eyeing Connections Vision Systems Design, May 2008 By Winn Hardin Fast-con, crimp, or lug wire terminators come in a nearly endless variety of shapes and sizes and are used extensively in the automotive and other electronics markets. At a connector-manufacturing facility in Spain, a pair of PPT Vision 5200 IMPACT cameras with tethered C40 processors, photoeye trigger, telecentric optics, mirrors, machined metal supports, and a Rockwell Automation Micrologix PLC supervise the operation.

		Thermography inspects aircraft fuselages Vision Systems Design, May 2008 By Andrew Wilson Boeing uses an infrared (IR) system for nondestructive testing of aircraft fuselages. Developed by Automation Technology, the JetCheck system uses a variant of IR thermography known as “lock-in” thermography to analyze samples under test.

		Suppliers Bring Data Logging to Drag Racing Design News, May 2008 By Charles J. Murray Nearly all serious drag racers now use so-called “black boxes” to record fuel pressure, oil pressure, shock travel, engine rpm, clutch rpm, acceleration and a host of other parameters. Radiated electrical noise serves as a problem for such data recording, however. Alcohol funny cars employ high-powered magnetos, causing noise problems for sensors, especially those mounted near engines.

		Pipeline Operator Detects Corrosion in Time - 05/24/08 IEN, May 2008 The Enviroline hydrogen corrosion monitor was the alerted a pipeline operator in Western Canada of a problem with its pipeline process, thereby allowing the company time to fix the problem before destructive corrosion and wall loss could occur.

		Drag Racers Log Sensor Data Control Engineering, May 2008 By Mike Guerra, Setra Systems A dragster engine is not the most hospitable environment for a pressure sensor or data logger. Extreme vibration and tire shake that dragsters generate — which can actually break a chassis — was shattering sensors. RPM Performance Products’ data loggers are now equipped with pressure sensors by Setra Systems.

		High-quality HMI access goes where it’s needed most Control Engineering, May 2008 By Renee Robbins Integrated Web Finishing Systems, a supplier of inline and offline finishing equipment, wanted to have their machinery operated by any of the six to 10 HMIs on a given finishing line, and integrate high resolution graphics without increasing the physical size of the HMI. Monitouch HMI provided the necessary equipment and systems.

		Steam Distribution Metering Solved Control Engineering, May 2008 By Bruce Willard, Pacific Klamath Energy Pacific Klamath Energy in Klamath Falls, OR, installed a V-Cone flowmeter from McCrometer to replace a previous differential pressure flow metering system that could not measure the low end of the steam flow scale without major changes to the piping. McCrometer matched both ends of the flowmeter to the existing steam system piping and provided multiple taps for flow readings.

		Mettler Toledo weighing technology reduces costs for RBG Process & Control Today, May 2008 Mettler Toledo helped oil, gas and petrochemicals services contractor RBG to reduce the amount of residual oil contamination in solids recovered from offshore production operations in the North Sea. MT’s Flexmount weigh module ensures accurate weighing of produced solids to assess batch composition prior to dosing with cleaning agents.

		Omega tackles dosing dilemma Control Engineering Europe, May 2008 When the liquid this pharmaceutical company deals with contacts air it begins to crystallize and can eventually block the tube. The pump then just delivers air and a very expensive product has to be destroyed. A level switch ensures the smooth operation of peristaltic pumps that dose ingredients into batches.

		World's first plant with IO Link technology Control Engineering Europe, May 2008 Duni GmbH in Bramsche, Germany, a producer of table decorations, uses IO Link technology on the packaging line. A dozen SICK photoelectric proximity switches communicate with the controller, which is in a Profibus fieldbus environment.

		Lotus hybrid blooms Process & Control Today, April 2008 The torque-current characteristics of a combined motor-generator developed for a Lotus-based hybrid car have been comprehensively mapped by a TorqSense digital torque sensor.

		Process oxygen analyzer helps achieve SIL 2 at catalyst plant Process & Control Today, April 2008 Servomex 2200 analyzers helped Süd-Chemie, a manufacturer of catalysts, have their SIS certified by the German TÜV to a safety integrity level of 2 (SIL 2) in accordance with EN 61511. The SIS is installed on the catalyst production process loop, with the oxygen analyser used as part of the process control and safety-related inerting system.

		FTIR provides flexible emissions monitoring Process & Control Today, April 2008 FTIR Gasmet DX-4000 gas analyzers from Quantitech are installed at Steetley Dolomite’s Whitwell Works, in Nottinghamshire, UK. The system differentiates between a wide range of analytes, many at trace levels. Recent legislation requires measurement of CO2, CO, SO2, HCL, HF and nitrogen oxides as well as a range of hydrocarbons.

		Tiny, wireless and self-energized Plant Services, April 2008 By Sheila Kennedy A new generation of sensors is poised to revolutionize predictive maintenance. Article details several case histories invlvingh wireless, self-energized sensors.

		Safety overhaul at Süd-Chemie Control Engineering Europe, April 2008 Süd-Chemie installed a safety instrumented system (SIS) at its Bruckmühl, Germany plant. The system, certified by TÜV to safety integrity level (SIL) 2, is hoped to ensure the functional safety of the plant.

		Flowmeters demonstrate robustness and reliability Control Engineering Europe, April 2008 Total Polyfilm reinstalled two Litre Meter flowmeters that have operated in its factory for the past decade. The VFF rotary piston flowmeters were sent back to their Buckingham based manufacturer for service and calibration following 85,650 hours of continual use. Little signs of wear were found on the rotary flowmeters.

		Paddington calls in Micronics Control Engineering Europe, April 2008 Network Rail called in a flowmeter expert to help it get to the bottom of rising water bills at Paddington Station. Micronics was faced with the daunting task of surveying an old and complex system that has changed considerably due to development activity. Six Portaflo 300 instruments were used to gather 24 hour consumption/load profiles for selected hot and cold water services.

		Glenfiddich Distillery Controls Energy Use With Swirl Meters Process Industry Informer, April 2008 Accurate flow data delivered by eleven swirl meters from ABB is enabling whisky distiller William Grant to identify areas for potential energy savings at its Glenfiddich distillery in Dufftown, Scotland. With the installation of the meters, energy consumption can now be pinpointed to exact departments and processes.

		Non-intrusive ultrasonic flowmeters provide ideal solution Process and Control Today, March 2008 Flexsys had to install process meters in its treatment plant, but flows could not be shut down so the operation had to be completed whilst the plant was running. Five ultrasonic manufacturers had attempted to provide a flow measurement solution, all of which failed. The final solution involved a FLOWLINE clamp-on ULTRAFLUX flowmeter.

		Collision Sensors Machine Design, February 2008 By Charles Bates Collision sensors detect when robot arms encounter obstructions. One shop incorporated a RAD Ultimatic Collision sensor as a compliance device with a signal to determine how much the robot needed to adjust its positioning in response to Grinding wheel wear.

		Hands Across the Water Control Design, March 2008 Trumpf uses Tele-Diagnostics to fix 90% of its machine problems. Sensors embedded in each machine allow technicians to diagnose remotely. Data is transmitted by an analog phone line using the software package PCAnyWhere and through the Internet via WebEx, provided that the customer’s machine has Internet access that is not blocked by a firewall.

		Sensor film helps SB Electronics hold capacitor tolerances - 02/27/08 SB Electronics uses pressure-sensitive film from Sensor Products to check tolerance of press plates that flatten the round capacitor profile.

		Automotive Data Acquisition System uses Industrial I/O By Data Translation A component manufacturer needed to acquire 24 analog and 8 digital inputs during in-car-testing at speeds up to 160 mph and over rough roads. They use two DT9836-12 data acquisition USB modules in tandem and an industrial notebook computer.

		Vision Sensors Check Laser Weld Quality Assembly, February 2008 The Renault LHA factory employs a machine-vision system from Cognex to detect any tiny holes that may exist in the laser welds used to assemble bodywork components.

		PROFIBUS used in Changi Wastewater Plant By Nick Belardes, ProSoft Technology The Changi Water Reclamation Plant in Singapore has 160 ProSoft Technology PROFIBUS DPV1 modules that handle flow meters, pressure and DP level transmitters, radar/ultrasonic transmitters, dissolved oxygen analyzers, temperature transmitters and electric actuators.

		On-Line Viscometers measure resin in Hong Kong - 02/09/08 Chem.Info, January 2008 By Hydramotion A Hong Kong-based company that manufactures laminates for printed circuit boards uses epoxy resins. A Hydramotion XL7 process viscometer, unaffected by solid particles in the fluid, gives the company a reliable way of monitoring its impregnation process in real time.

		Persian Gulf Company Uses HART to Improve Water Conversion Process HART Communication Foundation The Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) used HART technology in a major re-instrumentation project as the catalyst for improving asset management. The company installed more than 2,000 HART-enabled devices in a facility in Jubail, Saudi Arabia.

		Mass Flow Controller works in Antarctica Process & Control Today, February 2008 Researcher David Mucciarone selected the Smart-Trak 100 digital mass flow controller from Sierra Instruments to form an integral part of a carbon analyzer. Mucciarone tests the break down of inorganic carbon in sea and ice to learn how much CO2 the sea can digest. The Smart-Trak 100 monitors the amount of CO2 in samples of sea and ice.

		Radar level system solves soapy problem for detergent manufacturer Process & Control Today, January 2008 At Premiere Products, a manufacturer of cleaning and maintenance chemicals, an ultrasonic level system couldn’t deal with the foamy nature of the detergents. Hycontrol’s TDR level measuring system solved it: Instead of installing the waveguide cable inside the tank, Hycontrol installed it in a plastic tube outside the tank.

		Water utility does its own verifying of magmeter accuracies By ABB When the Mesa, Az, water utility purchased 12 well water magmeters, it also purchased a CalMaster calibration verification tool. The portable, PC-based system works with MagMaster magmeters from ABB Instrumentation. The utility does its own calibration now, saving $17,000 per year.

		Advanced Technology Exceeds Expectations Control Engineering, January 2008 By David DeBari, Advanced Elastomer Systems Using smart field instrumentation and bus-oriented plant architecture contributed to the timely startup of a new thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) production line for Advanced Elastomer Systems.

		Chilling out with ultrasonic Intech, January 2008 By Ellen Fussell Policastro Control and accurate measurement are behind the ultrasonic meters used at the chilled water plant in Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind.

		Crystal clear batch Intech, December 2007 By Richard S. Harner and Nick D. Gipson Fiber optic probe helps control batch crystallization in pharmaceutical applications. The probe responds primarily to total surface area of solids. Although touted strictly as a control device, it reliably generates an in-situ piece of information that is otherwise unknown during crystallizer operation.

		Emerson Improves Production and Efficiency for Brewery in Belgium Process & Control Today, December 2007 Rosemount Analytical pH sensors withstand high temperature cleaning cycles, reducing sensor failure alarms and improving reliability at the Duvel Moortgat brewery in Puurs, Belgium, solving a production problem and improving efficiency

		Ultrasonic Flowmeters Help Keep Pure Water Moving Process & Control Today, December 2007 Turbine meters originally installed in the water monitoring system at Glaxo Smith-Kline caused problems from bearing failure. The solution was to install non-contact, clamp-on ultrasonic meters from FLOWLINE.

		Sensor Technology's TorqSense sensor checks gearboxes - 12/17/07 Centa Transmissions uses TorqSense to guarantee that the precision gearboxes it supplies to the nuclear industry will never fail prematurely.

		Vacuum seals tested with Torque Sensor - 11/13/07 TorqSense non-contact digital torque monitoring system has proven to be the only way to test the seals of super high performance vacuum systems.

		Diagnosing NASA’s Deep Space Network Antennas JPL uses load cells and Opto 22’s SNAP PAC system to discover cause of failed bearings in deep space antennas.

		Sensors and Cordsets for Wash down Conditions By: Scott D’Amico, ifm efector Tipper Tie, an OEM of packaging equipment for the food industry, found that sourced position sensors and cordsets used on their machines were not remaining reliable due to their customers’ extreme wash down conditions. They used MK Series wash down cylinder sensors and Micro DC patch cords from ifm efector for the extreme wash down conditions.

		Pressure Measurements With DAQ Systems By National Instruments Application note describes pressure sensors, explains how they work and details the requirements for measuring pressure and the signal conditioning required for the measurement. It also explains how to use NI DAQ systems to measure bridge-based sensors.

		Acoustics monitoring prevents downtime at Shapfell Lime Quarry Process and Control Today, August 2007 By John Houston, Editor By carrying out regular condition monitoring checks on critical rotating plant and machinery, Corus Northern Engineering Services helped a limestone quarry in Cumbria maintain its output, efficiency and profitability.

		Powering Tire Pressure Sensors - 09/02/07 Sensors, July 2007 By: Arthur L. Chait, EoPlex Technologies In the interest of improved safety (and better gas mileage), tire pressure monitoring systems will soon be mandatory on cars. The challenge is how to power them.

		Infrared camera checks pumping stations for flood prevention Process and Control Today, July 2007 By John Houston, Editor A FLIR Systems ThermaCAM P-series camera is used to inspect pumping stations in central Europe. It helped keep pumping stations up and running during the hazardous Spring 2006 floods in southwest Hungary.

		Building Better Tractors Sensors, June 2007 By: Melanie Martella To ensure safe operation of a tractor, BEI Duncan Electronics incorporated a triple-redundant sensor pack. If one sensor should fail, a fault code alerts the operator, while the remaining sensors keep the vehicle operating until it can be serviced.

		Encoder Track Design Improves Position Control - 08/05/07 DesignWorld, July 2007 by Tom Wyatt, HEIDENHAIN Corporation Your choice of position encoders influences such important motor properties as positioning accuracy, speed stability, and bandwidth for drive command-signal response and disturbance rejection, as well as power loss and size.

		Sensing in shallow water Intech, May 2007 By Rafic Bachnak, et al Water quality data collection in shallow water areas can be a challenge because it normally requires setting up sensors in several places, plus it is redundant and time consuming. A NASA-funded project led to development of a remotely-controlled, shallow-draft vehicle.

		Litre Meter custom-designs flowmeters to test fuel injectors Process and Control Today, May 2007 By John Houston, Editor Litre Meter supplied seven customer-built flowmeters to Delphi's automotive division in Spain. The instruments are being used to test a range of petrol and diesel fuel injectors manufactured by the company.

		Three-sampler system delivers daily/weekly accuracy in North Sea Process and Control Today, April 2007 By John Houston, Editor Jiskoot designed and manufactured three sampling systems for installation on a North Sea oil and gas platform. The systems provide the operator with accurate and reliable daily / weekly sampling.

		Krohne's Optimass flowmeters help to produce high quality bread products Process and Control Today, April 2007 By John Houston, Editor KROHNE's OPTIMASS 1000 Coriolis mass flowmeters were chosen as part of a proportional weighing system built by Croston Engineering Ltd. The instruments accurately measure the amount of palm and rape seed oil added to the recipes.

		Modern-Day Canaries Sensors, March 2007 By: Melanie Martella A landfill-gas generating plant in suburban Minneapolis uses IR hydrocarbon detectors from Sensor Electronics Inc. to check for the presence of methane in the engine and control rooms.

		Corrosion in Real Time Sensors, March 2007 By: Melanie Martella A natural gas plant had a history of flow-enhanced rapid corrosion, as discovered by an annual ultrasonic scan. To understand exactly how quickly the corrosion was progressing during normal operations, the plant installed fiber-optic sensors from FOX-TEK on the outside surface of the reducer.

		MACSEA Improving Navy Ship Reliability Military Sealift Command (MSC), as part of the U.S. Navy, provides strategic sealift and ocean transportation for U.S. military forces. Its mission is to provide ocean transportation of equipment, fuel, supplies, and ammunition to sustain U.S. forces worldwide during peacetime and in war. MSC operates more than 120 ships worldwide on a day-to-day basis, all crewed by civilian mariners.

		Fire sprinkler systems get safety torque Process and Control Today, April 2007 By John Houston, Editor Replacing a torque meter with a torque sensor has revolutionised the validating process for Fireset sprinkler systems built by Grundfos Pumps Ltd. in Leighton Buzzard.

		Crude gets smart InTech, March 2007 By Pavel Kataev, et al Neural network technology proves best choice for virtual sensing in crude refining units. Perm, Russia's, LUKOIL refinery, chose to use artificial neural networks for online, real-time inferential property estimation in what could be one of the world's largest installations (in terms of the number of neural models) on a single crude unit. The neural networks run as function blocks within the automation system's controllers.

		MTS Sensors Ease Tank Cleaning Process In Dairy Processing M-Series sensors are being used by dairy manufacturers to provide accurate level and temperature measurement for clean-in-place tanks. M-Series sensors’ accuracy enables manufacturers to quickly clean their system thoroughly and responsibly in compliance with industry regulations on the cleaning of dairy processing equipment.

		A multiple path to ultrasonic optimization InTech, January 2007 By Harvey Klaer and Terry Burch A mere 1% change in the thermal operating efficiency of a large modern turbine generator is equivalent to about $15-20 million when capitalized over its working life. Advantages exist in many of the nooks and crannies of the process. Here is a description and discussion of implementing a multiple-path ultrasonic transit-time flowmeter for monitoring the circulating cooling water system at La Cygne Generating Station.

		The application of thermocouples Control, February 2007 By Bela Liptak (Answer to question) When the surface temperature of tubes is being measured, the thermocouple must always be shielded from furnace radiation. The thermocouple can be attached to the heater tube surface by being furnished with stainless-steel welding pads or by the use of thermocouple attachment blocks. In your application, I would use the attachment blocks, which are provided with multiple holes, allowing the quick replacement for spare thermocouple elements.

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