The iTCX transmitter is designed to allow users to monitor temperature from two independent thermocouple channels over an Ethernet network or the Internet with no special software aside from a Web browser. Serving active Web pages, the transmitter displays realtime…
An EtherCAT fieldbus interface is now available for this company’s thermal mass flowmeters and controllers for gases and liquids, as well as its digital pressure controllers. EtherCAT is said to be a highly flexible Ethernet-network protocol that operates at high…
ReactIR 247 (photo) is a process-hardened Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer designed to fit into nearly any space without sacrificing performance. Designed for classified environments, the instrument is engineered to be simple to operate, highly compact, cost effective and have…
The new wSeries Wi-Fi transmitter communicates on a standard Wi-Fi network, which is an economical solution for facilities with an existing Wi-Fi network as well as for new installations. Transmitters are available for analog voltage (0–10 V) and current (4–20…
A digital pressure gage combines the accuracy of digital technology with the simplicity of an analog pressure-measuring device. Given its very high sampling rate of 100 measurements per second, the CPG500 digital pressure gage (photo) is able to capture fast…
Version 8 of the Simatic PCS 7 process-control system boasts a host of new functions. The new features range from improved data exchange and an easier engineering workflow, more powerful communication, redundancy-related and fault-tolerant functions to new controllers and extended…
Last month, this company released a completely new version of its software for batch chemical reactors simulation, BatchReactor. The new software combines detailed equipment modeling, reaction engineering and advanced numerical methods to create a state-of-the-art simulation environment for chemists and…
This supplier of online near-infrared (NIR) sensors now offers the NIRView process monitoring software. With NIRView, the measurement from the NIR sensor is presented graphically to operators in realtime, giving instant knowledge of the process. NIRView shows trend charts as…
Acidity is a critical parameter in the chemical process industries, and accurate measurements of pH can be important indicators for process quality control. A refreshed understanding of pH measurement can help to overcome process-specific challenges to measurement and to select…
Level measurement and control in process vessels can be one of the most challenging applications in which to obtain consistently safe and reliable results. Part of this difficulty may be due to the fact that the sizing of the vessel…