A hydrocarbon processing unit is an unforgiving place to measure anything. Between the preheat train and the flare header, an instrument may meet 400 °C process fluid on Monday, a vacuum start-up on ...
A hydrocarbon processing unit is an unforgiving place to measure anything. Between the preheat train and the flare header, an instrument may meet 400 °C process fluid on Monday, a vacuum start-up on ...
Sooner or later, every plant engineer runs into the same problem: the pressure reading matters, but the cable route does not exist. Maybe the gauge sits on a rotating header, a remote tank farm, or a...
The core of pressure transmitter commissioning lies in safe isolation, loop wiring, parameter configuration, and pressure calibration. The following are the standard on-site commissioning procedures: ...
A tailings dam is an unusual piece of engineering. It exists to hold back material nobody wants, it keeps changing shape for decades, and it usually sits far from the plant that depends on it. Monito...
Downhole pressure gauges do their job thousands of metres below the wellhead, where nobody can watch them and where a failed instrument usually means a workover. That is why they are specified so car...
Tailings dams rarely fail without warning. Long before anything dramatic happens, the readings start to drift. Pore pressures creep upward, seepage rates change, the decant pond sits higher than the ...
Walk through almost any plant and you will find the same small problem repeated a hundred times. A pressure gauge sits on top of a tank, inside a skid, or high on a boiler wall, in a place that someb...
If you have ever balanced on a ladder in a pump room, holding a torch in one hand and a clipboard in the other, you already understand why the Bluetooth pressure gauge has become such a welcome arriv...
A pressure gauge may look like one of the simplest instruments on your equipment, but it is also one of the most informative. Before the needle even moves, the gauge has already told you a great deal...