Smart metering is seen as the prerequisite for energy savings and will revolutionize metrology for mobile communications, along with the associated transmission technology for data in the coming years.
A non-contact laser distance sensor looks into the tank with liquid chocolate through a Perspex window and determines its level.
Functional safety, the last major domain of conventionally wired signal cables, is facing a changeover.
PDC Systems is using explosion-proof enclosures to protect fire and gas monitoring and control systems f
A Large Area Rotary Filtration System replaces a duplex candle filter in a line for the production of PVC film (interlayer for laminated glass), eliminating the process disturbances from filter changes while saving money.
Greater safety in the transport of hazardous goods is the subject of intensive debate. This applies in particular to the formation of explosive compounds in freight containers as a result of permeation through the walls of plastic containers.
The high accuracy achieved by a transducer array has allowed a Premier Foods owned company in Newport, UK, to make a substantial saving on effluent charges.
E.ON Sverige decided to replace some of the old pneumatic instruments and valves on the condensers in its Örebro plant. Guided Wave Radar was tested next to electronic displacers.
In Vinnolit’s chlorine production process at the Gendorf (Germany) industrial estate, a safety system is safeguarding the chlorine production process and protects staff and residents against the plant’s potential hazards.
Plants for handling water-polluting substances must be built and operated so that no pollution or adverse change in water occurs. The applied valves, containers and connecting pipes play an important role in this.
To support its naturally cooled ‘eco-cellar’ Otter Brewery, UK, has installed a sequentially opening loading bay door system, ensuring the cellar is never exposed to the outside environment.
Water treatment systems in cooling towers are dynamic entities that are subject to numerous factors like varying operating and environmental conditions, seasonal alteration in water chemistry, and compliance with tightening environmental regulations.
Ignition protection type Ex ic is intrinsic safety. It is very similar and replaces protection type nonincendive Ex nL which becomes obsolete in 2011.
Redeveloped Oilfield
In the BP Oil Refinery Emsland in Lingen, Germany, a clamp-on ultrasonic measuring system measures non-invasively the heavy gasoil slowly flowing back during crude oil distillation.
Throttling Performance
BP Chemicals’ site at Saltend, UK, is a major centre for research and development of the company’s proprietary methanol carbonylation technology.
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