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Immersive technologies advance
One of our cover stories this month highlights how augmented…

IN THE NEWSNEWSFRONTS

Renewable Feed, New Technology and C2C Strategies Offer Opportunities for Refiners
After a rough past year, petroleum refineries are seeking profit…

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Bespoke battery recycling
A proprietary hydrometallurgical process known as Re-2Ox —originally conceived for…

Demonstration for a new process to make isobutene
Last month, OMV AG (Vienna, Austria; www.omv.com) commissioned its ISO…

Compressing hydrogen electrochemically
Kaji Technology Corp. (Osaka; www.kajitech.com) and Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo,…

Recovering battery-grade graphite, without using HF
Typically, to achieve the high graphite purity levels demanded by…

New demonstration plant for cellulosic textile fibers
A new demonstration plant will significantly scale up production of…

Project aims to establish supply of REEs from waste streams
An effort is underway to establish an environmentally friendly supply…

New catalyst for oxidative dehydrogenation of propane to propylene
Conventional propane dehydrogenation (PDH) is an endothermic, equilibrium-limited reaction that…

AI-enabled design-and-test platform speeds bioproduct development
TeselaGen Biotechnology (San Francisco, Calif.; www.teselagen.com) has developed a platform…

Chemenator Briefs
Ethylene Toyo Engineering Corp. (Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.com) has been awarded…

BUSINESS NEWS

Business News: May 2021
Plant Watch Chevron and Honeywell start up alkylation unit using…

TECHNICAL & PRACTICALFEATURE REPORT

Keeping Valves Corrosion-Free
In all phases of a valve’s lifecycle — from fabrication…

Specifying Severe-Service Valves for Urea Applications
To withstand the harsh conditions and potential safety risks encountered…

Enhancing Plant Safety Via Virtual 'On-Site' Visits
New developments in augmented reality can help plant operators fix…

Advanced Analytics for Process Safety
A look at how advanced analytics facilitates and improves process…

FACTS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS

Facts At Your Fingertips: Evaporator Equipment Types
Industrial evaporator heat-transfer surfaces are either tubular or flat plates,…

TECHNOLOGY PROFILE

Technology Profile: Producing Polylactic Acid from Corn
Polylactic acid (PLA, polylactide; Figure 1) is a thermoplastic aliphatic…

EQUIPMENT & SERVICESFOCUS

Focus on Maintenance Tools
Improve schedule compliance and first-time fix rate Last December, this…

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A fast EtherCAT RFID interface for decentralized automation
The TBEC series has been added to this company’s range…

A smart monitoring technology for hydrocyclones
CycloneSense (photo) is a smart measurement system that provides direct…

Stainless-steel butterfly valves help streamline material flow
This company’s range of butterfly valves (photo) are offered with…

Illuminate critical processes with these explosion-proof LED lights
The new explosion-proof Lumiglas Model USL08LED-EX (photo) is said to…

New additions to IIoT software
A new packaging of Seeq features and packages was launched…

Smart monitoring and management of control valves
The web-based Sam Valve Management system (photo) gives users an…

Digitizing the industrial-gases supply chain
The Transcend IoT Platform streamlines industrial-gas supply-chain data by integrating…

This pusher centrifuge needs only one motor
While traditional centrifuges have separate pusher and drive motors, the…

New calibration technology extends gas-detector operation
The new TruCal calibration technology, included with this company’s Ultima…

Gauging temperature and vibrations improve milling
This company’s Insights platform is connected to the new temperature…

Application-specific liquid-mixing systems
This company’s B Series of liquid mixing systems (photo) are…

New Raman spectrometers provide IIoT connectivity
The Kaiser Raman embedded analyzer (photo) collects in-situ process measurements,…

A mobile conveying system for explosive environments
The ATEX-certified Inert Explosion-proof (INEX) pneumatic vacuum-conveying system (photo) features…

This IBC has a compact design for streamlined shipping
The new Ecobulk MX 560 intermediate bulk container (IBC; photo)…

Use these lined static mixers with aggressive chemicals
This company has launched a Kynar-lined static mixer (photo) to…

New flange monoblock with shutoff valve
The compact design of this new monoblock with flange connection…

Compressed-air systems in a secure, weatherproof enclosure
KASE air-system enclosures (photo) is available in several standard configurations,…

Remove toxic fumes and gases economically and effectively
The Fume Scrubber product line (photo) offers a reliable way…

Monitor bolt loads, even at high temperatures
The new High Temp Maxbolt (photo) is able to operate…

Improve dosing accuracy and safety for powder weighing
The XPR automatic balance (photo) applies active machine learning to…

Temperature control under a pressure blanket
This company has expanded its product range for demanding temperature-control…

Reusable gas samplers for VOC analysis
The new POD (pocket diffuser) sampler (photo) is a passive…

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New calibration technology extends gas-detector operation

By Mary Page Bailey and Gerald Ondrey | May 1, 2021

The new TruCal calibration technology, included with this company’s Ultima X5000 and General Monitors S5000 gas detectors (photo) for H₂S and CO, means that the devices require no calibration checks for up to 24 months. Typically, a gas sensor’s electrolyte, or one or more of the electrodes, may limit the life of the sensor, especially in high-temperature or humid environments. These conditions and issues often require frequent recalibration or clearing of blocked sensors in harsh environments. The TruCal technology solves these problems with an extended calibration technology, which automatically self-checks and corrects sensor drift to extend calibration cycles using adaptive environmental-compensation (AEC) algorithms. This capability eliminates bump checks and assures the user that the sensor is healthy, measuring accurately and capable of detecting gas continuously. — MSA Safety, Cranberry Township, Pa.

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