Control Engineering Process
Honeywell Process Solutions: 34th Americas User Group, 6 areas of change in next 10 years
Many new attendees converge on Honeywell user conference in spite of wide travel restrictions, finding advice on wireless instrumentation and process optimization advice. See six major areas of process control change by 2020.
Flowmeter for diesel fuel consumption
Devices must be able to withstand extreme temperature swings in the installation environment, as end users employ them in automotive, marine, aerospace, and power generation applications.
Programmable controller fundamentals book
Applications-based book written by Thomas A. Hughes has been used as a textbook for programmable logic controller (PLC) courses.
Endress+Hauser expands U.S. production, with flowmeter manufacturing, testing
State-of-the-art flowmeter manufacturing and testing facility in Indiana was inaugurated by Endress+Hauser. E+H invested more than $18 million in new production and calibration facilities for production of primarily magnetic and Coriolis flowmeter designs. See photos.
Waste-to-energy process control gets boost from new agreement
Waste Management joins with Inentec to develop and deploy plasma gasification facilities. Refuse is superheated to as high as 20,000 °F, rearranging the molecular structure, making ultra-clean, synthesis gas (syngas) from carbon-based materials. Link to process video.
Optimizing energy for South Africa's largest pharmaceutical company
Adcock Ingram partners with Johnson Controls to improve control, reduce headquarters facility energy consumption.
Green Planet Farms selects control system for pilot organic processing facility
Process automation system provides the flexibility needed to extract the food industry’s first hexane-free soy isolate.
Intrinsically safe I/O subsystem simplifies hazardous area installations
IPS and P+F team to integrate intrinsically safe hardware with control system technology.
Device integrates gas flow control functions with mass flowmeter
Simplifies basic flow control installations and helps network multiple instruments.
PLC extends functionality of DCS platforms
Honeywell MasterLogic PLC CPUs process complex instructions at high speeds for greater control system flexibility. The powerful PLC can be deployed in a stand-alone mode without requiring any HMI and be used with Honeywell's Experion Process Knowledge System architecture and the recently released Experion LS. It brings power and robustness to very high-speed logic, interlock, and sequencing applications, Honeywell says.
Predictive Emissions Monitoring for Regulatory Compliance
New environmental regulations are putting increased pressure on manufacturers to measure and record their emissions more accurately on a continuous basis. Not only are manufacturers accounting for emissions’ impact on the environment—as required by regulations—but many also seek to reduce regulatory compliance complexities, costs and risks, and capitalize on emission trading p...
Milliamp clamp meters save time for automation technicians
Fluke Corp. introduced two new milliamp (mA) clamp meters designed to help technicians test critical automation and control circuits without breaking the circuit or interrupting operations. The new Fluke 772 and 773 milliamp clamp meters join the Fluke 771; applications include instrumentation, commissioning, and troubleshooting.
Safety via Fieldbus—Hanging by a Wire?
Fieldbus is breaking new ground in discrete and process safety networks, a bastion of hard-wired systems. Users are drawn by promises of easier troubleshooting and maintenance.
NEC Electronics changes manufacturing process to eliminate hazardous chemicals
Company eliminates use of phenol, dichlorobenzene, and trimethyl benzenes in seminconductor production process, resulting in $150,000 annual cost savings.
P & ID design resource available from ISA
Instrumentation engineers, engineering companies, and anyone else who develops pipe & instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs) have a new resource: ISA 5 P&ID Clip Symbols Version 2.0 CD.
SCADA systems controller provides 32-bit processor, basic functions
Control Microsystems announces its high-powered, low-cost SCADAPack 314 controller, designed as a back-to-basics solution for effective processing at a low cost.
Schneider Electric and Krohne present combined pipeline management solution
Combined product and services are said to improve pipeline performance and safety through energy management, integral security, advanced process automation, and a pipeline instrumentation package.
Instruments can speak for themselves
Device allows instruments to verbalize measurements, announce alarms, even in Spanish.
Ultrasonic flowmeter operates through thick and thin
New design M-Pulse multi-path ultrasonic flowmeter from Thermo Fisher Scientific allows the user to change viscosities measured without having to recalibrate. With a working viscosity range of 0.06 to 1500 cSt, this flowmeter can handle a huge variety of products.
Dual-rotor turbine flowmeter for subsea and topside applications
Bearing diagnostics and built-in redundancy suited to critical and inaccessible installations.