The beauty of fiber-optical spectroscopy is that small, inexpensive devices with no moving parts bring their capacity to where the samples are, rather than the other way round. As a result, spectra can be recorded in almost real…
These meters have no moving parts The Vortex PhD (photo) is an inline meter that measures flow of liquids, gas or steam. With a fully welded sensor construction, the Vortex PhD has no moving parts nor holes that…
The infrared approach to temperature monitoring is especially useful in situations where process temperatures are extremely high, the target is in motion, and the need to avoid contaminants is significant Accurate temperature measurement can often be quite challenging, especially in…
An industrial group, composed of Honeywell, Adaptive Instruments, Endress + Hauser, Flowserve, Omnex Control Systems, 3e Technologies International, and Yokogawa, have joined the Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society (ISA; Research Triangle Park, N.C.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/5830-542) SP100 working group (chartered last year)…
Corrosion has the chemical process industries seeing red in their metal tanks and pipelines — and on the bottom line, too. In the U.S., for example, chemical, petrochemical and pharmaceutical producers incur direct costs of $1.7 billion/yr for corrosion, or…
Last month, Invensys Process Systems (Foxboro, Mass.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/5829-531) launched InFusion (www.InFusionECS.com), claimed to be the world’s first enterprise-control system (ECS). InFusion (diagram) is designed to help industrial enterprises more effectively align plant operations and maintenance departments with the business to…
After years of investment in enterprise business systems and plant floor automation, the manufacturing community has finally turned its full attention to connecting these two distinctly different, yet intimately related aspects of the manufacturing enterprise, says Kevin Roach,…
A prototype of what is called the world’s fastest, wide-ranging hydrogen gas sensor has been constructed by a team of researchers, led by Professor Kazushi Yamanaka at the Dept. of Materials Processing, Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan; edlinks.chemengonline.com/5828-531), together with Toppan…
The EDDL (electronic-device-description language) Cooperation Team (ECT; Karlsruhe, Germany; edlinks.chemengonline.com/5828-532) has released Phase 1 EDDL enhancement specifications. The enhancements on the existing EDDL include new capabilities, such as graphs, charts and images, the possibilities for archive data, and an EDD…
Last month, Emerson Process Management (St. Louis, Mo.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/5828-540) launched the Rosemount 3095 MultiVariable transmitter with FOUNDATION Fieldbus (FF) technology and fully-compensated mass-flow functionality. Said to be a first for the process industries, this extension to the Rosemount 3095 platform…