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Emerson to automate power plant at Bhushan Power & Steel
- 10/07/08
Emerson will supply PlantWeb, 31 Ovation controllers, AMS software, and 47 Rosemount pressure transmitters. |
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Emerson wireless network to monitor wells in Venezuela
- 10/01/08
Emerson will install Smart Wireless technology in the Morichal District oil fields for PDVSA, the Venezuelan state-owned oil company. |
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Emerson expands wireless technology at BP
- 10/01/08
Smart Wireless mesh is overseeing BP R&D Naperville Tank Farm, expanding at BP's Cherry Point Washington refinery, and is being installed at BP facilities worldwide |
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Emerson to control liquid metering systems at Suncor Energy
- 09/26/08
Emerson will provide project design and engineering services and Daniel metering skids for Oil Sands Upgrader Operation in Fort McMurray, Alberta. |
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VEGA supplies Profibus sensors for largest paper mill in Europe
- 09/11/08
Palm Paper commissioned VEGA to supply the level, switching and pressure instrumentation for the PM 7 project in King’s Lynn, the largest paper machine for newsprint paper in Europe.
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Standardisation of temperature transmitters
Control Engineering Europe, August 2008
Following the installation of an ABB TTF3000 HART temperature transmitter more than a year ago, Rugby cement has decided to use the products as standard throughout its Warwickshire, UK based plant. The transmitter monitors the temperature of one of the bearings responsible for carrying the enormous weight of a kiln.
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Siemens instrumentation puts Aeroform in control
Process & Control Today, August 2008
Aeroform Group builds autoclave systems for the aerospace and automotive industries, using Siemens mass flow, temperature, pressure, valve positioner and level measurement technologies.
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ABB supplies thermowells for Shell’s Bonny Island
Process & Control Today, August 2008
ABB supplies thermowells for one of the world’s largest refinery complexes. Used on Shell Oil’s Bonny Island refinery in Nigeria, the full assembly thermowells, complete with their associated thermometer and head mounted transmitter, will be used to measure process temperatures in the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) plant.
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Litre Meter ships flowmeters to South America
Process & Control Today, August 2008
Litre Meter has shipped over 100 chemical injection flow meters to Flutrol Com.e Controle de Fluidos Ltda in Brazil. The meters are for use on a new floating production unit (FPU) to be located in the Campos Basin, off the coast of Brazil. This production unit, one of the largest of its kind in the world, is expected to begin commercial operations in late 2010.
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Winters Instruments supplies pressure switches to Chinese power company
- 08/27/08
Chongqing Jiulong Electric Power uses pressure switches to monitor burner pressure, condensator vacuum and steam turbine lubricant pressure monitoring. |
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MTS level sensors monitor petroleum shipments for Truman Arnold
- 08/25/08
MTS is providing MG Level Plus liquid-level wireless transmitters to Truman Arnold Companies of Caddo Mills, Texas, to measure and monitor daily shipments of more than one million gallons of petroleum. |
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Invensys to supply automation and services to Kraton Polymers
- 08/19/08
Invensys will supply $20 million worth of InFusion, I/A Series DCS, instrumentation, batch management software, and APC software to Kraton, a producer of styrenic block copolymers. |
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Emerson to automate new coal-fired power plant in China
- 08/19/08
Emerson will supply PlantWeb, an Ovation expert control system, AMS software, and Foundation fieldbus and Profibus instrumentation at Haimen units 1 and 2. |
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JCB uses Gentech Vane Sensors for interlocking applications
- 08/15/08
PSS vane sensors provide interlocking solution for JCB's Backhoe Machine.
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GE Sensing supplies flow instrumentation to Qatar Shell
- 08/08/08
GE Sensing will supply GF868 digital ultrasonic flowmetering systems, comprising flare transmitters, transducers and flowcells.
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Vishay to install Rider Roll System in Canadian Paper Mill
- 07/25/08
The Rider Roll System, to be delivered to NewPage's Port Hawkesbury mill, will use strain gage-based load cells to control the winding process of finished rolls. |
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100 Litre Meter VFF Flowmeters supplied to African oil
Process and Control Today, July 2008
Custom flowmeter manufacturer Litre Meter (www.litremeter.com) has supplied over 100 VFF positive displacement flowmeters for Integrated Flow Systems (IFS) in a deal worth almost US$350,000. The meters form part of a chemical injection metering skid system to be installed in Chevron's Tombua Landana Drilling and Production Platform located offshore Angola, Block 14.
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Falcon Electric UPS helps North American Eagle reach 400 mph
- 07/16/08
ED Series online UPS provided backup power and frequency conversion on board the North American Eagle supersonic land speed challenger. |
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Emerson to automate Thai petrochemical plant
- 06/20/08
Equipment includes PlantWeb, FOUNDATION fieldbus, microprocessor-based field instruments, valves, digital systems, and software.
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Emerson to automate Bulgarian pulp mill expansion
- 06/12/08
Emerson will install a DeltaV, Fisher valves and controllers, Micro Motion Coriolis mass flow meters and Rosemount pressure, flow, temperature and level measurement instruments. |
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Emerson to automate two new glass plants in China
- 05/27/08
Emerson will supply PlantWeb, DeltaV, intelligent field devices, and Foundation Fieldbus at Zhejiang Changxing glass plants in the Zhejiang Province. |
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ABB to supply controls for cement plant project in Arizona
- 05/19/08
ABB to supply 800xA Extended Automation System, motors, drives, MCCs, analyzers, CEMS, switchgear, and instrumentation. |
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austriamicrosystems provides angular position for the Audi R10 at Le Mans
- 05/19/08
The AS5243 is used to measure the absolute position of the barrel shaft in the gearbox to ensure an optimized gear change. The Audi R10 is the first diesel powered car to win the Le Mans 24 hours, one of the most famous races in the world.
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Sensor Film helps Futek assemble load cells
- 05/16/08
Futek experienced difficulty assembling some of their load cells to specifications. Using Pressurex sensor film, they found fluctuations in clamping pressure.
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Emerson completes upgrade at polystyrene plant in Argentina
- 04/16/08
Modernization at Petrobras Zarate included Foundation fieldbus, DeltaV, AMS asset management, flow, level and temperature instruments, and Fisher valves with FIELDVUE digital valve controllers. |
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HEIDENHAIN encoders help position telescope
- 04/13/08
The largest optical telescope in the northern hemisphere, the Gran Telescopio Canarias (Grantecan) on La Palma, Spain, uses HEIDENHAIN model ERA 780C angle encoders.
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Conductivity sensors help Chemical Concentration Control
- 04/07/08
Wasting valuable chemicals by using concentrations that are too high means wasting money. The best solution for this application is an inductive conductivity sensor, says Mettler Toledo.
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Emerson installs automation at China PVC plant
- 04/02/08
Emerson installed PlantWeb, DeltaV, Rosemount digital temperature transmitters and AMS Suite predictive maintenance software at a new PVC production facility of the Yichang Yihua Pacific Chemical Co. |
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MTS Sensors used in sawmill motion control
- 03/13/08
Temposonics R-Series sensors play a key role in a number of motion control applications throughout the Centralia Sawmill in Centralia, WA. |
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Emerson supplies DCS to training facility
- 03/05/08
A DeltaV system, AMS software, Fisher valves and Foundation Fieldbus equipment are installed at the Centre for the Assessment of Technical Competence training center in the UK. |
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Emerson supplies flowmeters to Argosy for Sputnik
- 02/27/08
Micro Motion Coriolis flowmeters are used by Argosy for flow measurement and quality monitoring in Russian Sputnik oil separator systems. |
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ABB to supply System 800xA for Australian waste processing plant
- 02/12/08
ABB will supply the complete hardware, engineering and commissioning of the control system, as well as drives, analyzers, instruments and Profibus field devices. |
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Winters Pressure switches used in Chinese turbines
- 02/11/08
Pressure switches monitor vacuum points and trigger emergency stops on steam turbines in China.
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Sensors check seat belts for safety
- 02/05/08
When building a replacement rig for a seatbelt manufacturer, Mindready Solutions Solutions used a transducer from Sensor Technology and found previously undetected large torque oscillations. |
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Wireless Enables Temperature Profiling and Tank Level Measurement at PPG Plant
Process and Control Today, January 2008
PPG installed an Emerson Smart Wireless solution at its Chemical Division facility in Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA. The production installation follows field trials of Emerson’s self-organising wireless networks conducted by a PPG cross-functional process and corporate IT personnel team. |
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Binder-USA adapts the Iris Spring for EMI Shielding
- 01/23/08
Iris spring shielding technology is an effective and simple way to protect equipment from electromagnetic interference.
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ABM chooses Krohne Optimass 1300 for dosing solution
Process and Control Today, January 2008
ABM, a manufacturer of mixing, distillation and fermentation systems to the drinks industry, has chosen the Krohne Optimass 1300 Coriolis mass flowmeter for a dosing solution it has supplied to a major UK drinks producer.
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Honeywell to supply automation to BP Exploration & Production
- 01/08/08
Honeywell signed a six-year agreement with BP Exploration to provide Main Automation Contractor (MAC) services at the oil and gas company's new and existing facilities. |
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Honeywell to install MXProLine system at Chinese aluminum company
- 12/13/07
This platform will deliver product quality and efficient production, as well as reduce downtime for the aluminum manufacturing company in eastern China.
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Emerson improves production efficiency at Moortgat brewery with pH sensors
- 12/10/07
Rosemount Analytical pH sensors from Emerson withstand high temperature cleaning cycles, reducing sensor failure alarms and improving reliability at brewery. |
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Emerson supplies gas meters for refinery project in India
- 11/26/07
Daniel 3804 Liquid Ultrasonic Meters will determine "Fiscal transfers" of all petroleum products ranging from heavy crude to light hydrocarbon processed for the export market. |
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Emerson named main supplier for China's largest refinery
- 11/12/07
Emerson will supply 25,000 Rosemount instruments, 2,500 FIELDVUE DVC6000 HART smart positioners, 2,000 Fisher control valves, and 400 Micro Motion Coriolis meters. |
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SICK sensors used on 26 vehicles in DARPA race
- 10/23/07
In the 2007 Urban Challenge, radar sensors will be used to locate curbs and ditches, detect people and other vehicles, and to see elevation changes in the roadway.
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AeroAstro upgrades SENS (Sensor Enabled Notification System)
- 10/19/07
AeroAstro will provide ground network upgrades to Globalstar's deployed receivers to expand the current subscriber messaging capacity by 10 X and increase receiver sensitivity by up to 40 percent.
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Intelligent extruder plans its own growth
- 10/18/07
A bench top extruder developed at Bradford University is able to collect data about its own operation and to determine a wide range of characteristics of the material with which it is working.
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MTS Sensors work in Friction Stir Welding system
- 10/10/07
R-Series SSI encoder position sensors are used in the ISTIR Advanced Friction Stir Welding development system. |
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Emerson wireless technology monitors temperature in railcars at Croda
- 09/19/07
Wireless network continuously monitors potentially hazardous temperatures in railcars at Croda specialty chemical plant in Mill Hall, Pennsylvania. |
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Innominate to equip printing presses with remote maintenance technology
- 09/18/07
Innominate's mGuard products will allow remote maintenance of Koenig & Bauer presses via the internet.
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Emerson's wireless solution installed at PPG in Louisiana
- 09/13/07
PPG Industries installed Emerson's Smart Wireless solution at its Chemical Division facility in Lake Charles, Louisiana. It uses ten wireless Rosemount transmitters for pipeline and steam header temperature measurement.
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Rapid Controls develops displays for Temposonics sensors
- 09/12/07
TDD-C4 and TDD-C32 displays supply power to C-Series sensors, include cabling that is compatible, and provide engineering unit output in inches and millimeters.
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Siemens to supply Baggage Handling Systems at LAX
The $61.9 million contract is for construction of a 100% inline baggage screening system in three terminals at Los Angeles International Airport. |
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Differential Expansion Measurement For Didcot A Power Station
Process and Control Today, August 2007
By John Houston, Editor
One of the challenges facing instrumentation engineers in the power generation sector is the accurate measurement of shaft growth relative to casing on large steam turbine rotor sections.
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Monitoring fuel oil flows to generators in Nigeria
- 09/02/07
Process and Control Today, July 2007
By John Houston, Editor
Diesel fuel flow measurement systems from Titan Enterprises have been adopted as standard equipment for monitoring the oil consumption of diesel generators used for powering oil pipeline pumping stations and other remote oil industry facilities in Nigeria.
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Endevco sensors ride Space Shuttle
- 08/30/07
Endevco provided vibration sensors used in critical health management system controllers for the Space Shuttle Main Engines built by Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne. |
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Physik Instrumente gives $25,000 grant to Univ of VA for sensor research
- 08/27/07
Scientists at the Department of Neuroscience will build a nanostimulator using piezo actuators and a 3-axis piezo nanopositioning stage that can reliably stimulate inner ear sensory hair cells. |
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ABB to supply $56 million in automation for steel mill in China
- 08/23/07
ABB will provide automation equipment and electrical systems for a high-efficiency steel mill to be built by Zhangjiagang GTA Plate Co. in eastern China.
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Perpetuum powers TI devices by harvesting vibration energy
- 08/22/07
PMG17 vibration energy-harvesting microgenerator can power TI's RF transceiver and microcontroller, paving the way for battery-free sensor operation. |
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ABB helps Stora Enso paper mill slash emissions
- 08/22/07
The Skoghall paper mill in central Sweden cut carbon dioxide emissions by about 170,000 tons a year following a two-year revamp costing 211 million euros ($290 million).
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Selex Torque sensor helps VTOL take off
- 08/10/07
TorqSense non-contact digital torque sensor is used in a vertical take-off and landing unmanned aerial vehicle.
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Emerson to automate Lucite chemical plant in Singapore
- 07/24/07
Emerson will provide design verification, testing and commissioning, and will supply PlantWeb digital plant architecture asset management programs.
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Siemens supports National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center
- 07/07/07
SIMATIC PCS 7 distributed control system and instrumentation from Siemens are being used by the NCERC to help validate near-term technologies for renewable fuel production.
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ABB spatial interferometer to measure greenhouse gases on Japanese satellite
- 06/28/07
The satellite, scheduled to be launched in 2008, will enable Japanese scientists to study and measure greenhouse gases in support of the Kyoto protocol. |
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Emerson awarded $27M contract to upgrade lignite-fired power plant
- 06/27/07
Emerson to modernize instrumentation, control and electrical subsystems at the largest lignite-fired power plant in Europe, the Belchatow Power Plant in Poland. |
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ABB to supply $62M control system for power plant in Germany
- 06/26/07
ABB will supply a System 800xA, boiler protection, instrumentation and electrical actuators, which will be integrated via a Profibus network. The system will be installed at E.ON-Kraftwerke GmbH's coal-fired plant in Germany's Rhein-Ruhr region |
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Yokogawa and MAVERICK sign supplier agreement with Chevron
- 06/15/07
Yokogawa and MAVERICK Technologies have been selected as the main automation and control contractors for Chevron’s global refineries. |
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Emerson installs Daniel gas metering system in Macedonia
- 06/14/07
Emerson completed a major modernization program at a custody transfer gas metering installation at the Makpetrol Border Station in Macedonia. |
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Honeywell introduces line of Krohne flow meters
- 06/11/07
The Honeywell VersaFlow line includes electromagnetic, Coriolis, ultrasonic and vortex flow meters made by Krohne.
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Under Pressure: Transducers and Testing
Chem.info, June 2007
By Setra Systems
Heat Transfer Products in East Freetown, MA, manufactures water tanks and water heating appliances. They used sensors from Setra in the testing stage, during which each boiler would be checked for its ability to perform — literally — under pressure.
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High temperature OPTIMASS measures flow of carbon black
Process and Control Today, May 2007
By John Houston, Editor
KROHNE supplied five high temperature OPTIMASS 9000 Coriolis mass flowmeters to measure the flow of carbon black at a production plant in Europe.
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Banner's Optical Sensor Measures Pontiac Downforce
Design News, April 2007
By Terry Costlow, Contributing Editor
Banner Engineering's racing Pontiac GXP.R puts a customized Banner long-range optical sensor on each corner of the car's front end to measure its downforce, the downward pressure that makes the car hug the track.
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KROHNE's level meters chosen by BOC Edwards
Process and Control Today, April 2007
By John Houston, Editor
BOC Edwards, a manufacturer of vacuum equipment, has chosen to use KROHNE's OPTIFLEX TDR level radar meter in its range of dry vacuum pumps used in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries.
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ABB wins $26-million contract in Qatar
- 05/17/07
ABB received a $26 million order as the Main Instrumentation and Main Electrical Contractor for two oil platforms being built for Maersk Oil Qatar. |
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Torque sensor from Sensor Technology replaces slip rings in aircraft
- 05/03/07
TorqSense transducer uses a RF link to constantly monitor shaft torque in the UK's Nimrod reconnaissance and attack aircraft. |
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Sensor Technology's torque sensor validates sprinkler systems
- 05/03/07
Replacing a torque meter with a torque sensor has revolutionized the validating process for Fireset sprinkler systems built by Grundfos Pumps Ltd. in Leighton Buzzard, UK. |
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MTS Sensors work in pharmaceutical applications
- 04/24/07
MTS is supplying its E- and C-Series Temposonics magnetostrictive sensors to the pharmaceutical industry for processing and packaging applications. |
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Emerson supplies equipment to New Zealand M&C school
- 04/04/07
Emerson products will be used at the Industrial Measurement and Control (IMC) training laboratory at New Zealand's Waikato Institute of Technology. The college is the only provider of IMC training at Level 4 and Level 5 of the New Zealand Qualifications Authority National Framework. |
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Honeywell to supply process control to chemical plant in Kuwait
- 03/14/07
Honeywell has been awarded a $7 million contract to implement an Experion Process Knowledge System (PKS) and FOUNDATION Fieldbus solution at a new chemical plant operated by Kuwait Paraxylene Production Company (KPPC). The plant will produce aromatics materials, mainly paraxylene for exportation and benzene that will be used in other regional projects. |
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Emerson to be digital automation supplier for Qatargas
- 03/12/07
Emerson will engineer, project manage, install, commission, and provide long term support on automation solutions for the company's oil, gas and petrochemical facilities in Qatar.
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Invensys to automate Aker Kvaerner LNG terminal in Louisiana
- 03/08/07
Invensys will supply Foxboro distributed control systems (DCS), Triconex safety systems and fire & gas systems, and Foxboro instrumentation to Aker Kvaerner, Inc. for a new LNG receipt terminal being built near the Gulf Coast of Louisiana. |
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MTS sensor helps brake Bugatti Veyron
- 03/07/07
MTS adapted its mobile hydraulic (Model MS) Temposonics magnetostrictive sensor for use in the Bugatti Veyron high-end passenger car, the world's fastest street-legal motor vehicle. |
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Livingston & Haven and ADI develop KD-Rig for NASCAR
- 03/01/07
KD-Rig advanced diagnostic testing system provides NASCAR teams with detailed data about the chassis and suspension in a variety of simulation scenarios. It provides precise suspension motion while measuring bump steer, camber change and wheel loads. The KD-Rig also easily allows interference checking throughout the travel range. |
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Emerson gas analysis contributes to power plant efficiency in South Wales
- 02/22/07
Rosemount Analytical flue gas analysis products are helping to maintain efficient operations at the major RWE npower Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant in Barry, South Wales. This npower Cogen plant supplies electricity, steam and treated process water to the adjacent Dow Corning manufacturing facility. |
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Setra pressure transducers test Heat Transfer Inc. boilers
- 01/29/07
The Setra Model 201 is used during the boiler firing rate test, the testing phase whereby the boiler is tested to make sure the boiler is firing at its designed rate. To accurately determine the gas flow rate the pressure of the gas flowing into the boiler must be known and the Model 201 is used to measure this pressure. |
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Emerson's Machinery Health saves 1.5M Euros for the Belgian Navy
- 01/25/07
By applying vibration and oil analysis technologies to the gas turbines on the Belgian Navy's mine hunter vessels, the mean time between maintenance (MTBM) has been extended from 2500 hours to 4000 hours, representing a saving of 71,000 Euros for each cycle. The savings enabled over the last seven years total nearly 1.5 million Euros. |
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MTS Sensors measure stroke in machine fixture set-up clamps
- 01/05/07
Providing accurate measurement of stroke, an embedded C-Series continuous position sensor located inside the electric, hydraulic or pneumatic actuator of a clamp ensures that a variety of parts can be clamped down in the proper position without sensor readjustment. |
