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Healthy Pumps, Healthy Hearts
OK, I confess to being an engineer in my core when I was explaining to my son the other day how the heart is a reciprocating pump. The systolic and diastolic pressures are the high and low-pressure...
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Remote Monitoring of Essential Equipment
We’ve highlighted the importance of monitoring essential plant assets in several earlier posts. In an upcoming ChemInnovations 2012 presentation, Remote Monitoring of Essential Equipment—An Expert is...
View ArticlePump Reliability and Safety Webinar
I saw an inside-the-firewall blog post from Emerson’s Tim Olsen about an upcoming, no charge, HART Energy Webinar. The title of the webinar is Reliability and Safety Improvements with Pump Health...
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Ending Pump and Motor Unplanned Downtime
Emerson’s Michael Pearson, a member of the Rosemount measurement business unit, describes how wireless field devices and networks can help end pump and motor downtime in mining applications. Pumps and...
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Essential Asset Monitoring – Pump Demonstration
In an earlier post, Remote Monitoring of Essential Equipment, we shared how wireless vibration sensors were making it possible to monitor assets previously not deemed critical enough for wired,...
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Additional Measurements and their Financial Impact
I continue to mine all the great presentations from the Emerson Exchange event in Anaheim last fall. Here is a recap of another one, How Much Is Another Measurement Worth?, by Emerson’s Doug White. You...
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Avoid Pumps Causing Unplanned Shutdowns
Update and bump: A recorded version of this webinar is now available. Visit here for a listing of other recorded & archived webinars. Original post: An unplanned shutdown can ruin your whole day,...
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Early Detection of Impending Pump Failures
Even non-critical pumps in your process can cause spills, vapor clouds, fires and worse. Most of these failure incidents provide warning well in time to solve the problem—if feedback mechanisms are in...
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Ways to Improve Pump Reliability
A U.S. Department of Energy study on pump life cycle costs notes that maintenance and energy costs make up the vast majority of lifecycle costs. Pumps that are critical to the operation of the process...
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Improving Pump Continuous Monitoring
Unless you are lucky enough to have a process that flows downhill, you likely have pumps moving liquids through the process. And if these liquids come in large volumes such as hydrocarbon movement and...
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Wireless Continuous Pump Monitoring
Many of the pumps in process manufacturing and production processes are essential and their failure results in reduced or lost production and increased maintenance costs. In an Upstream Pumping...
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Remote Pump Monitoring
Given the costs associated with wired plant instrumentation and wiring infrastructure, most plants have just enough sensors and final control elements to perform basic control and safety system...
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Ending Pump and Motor Unplanned Downtime
Emerson’s Michael Pearson, a member of the Rosemount measurement business unit, describes how wireless field devices and networks can help end pump and motor downtime in mining applications. Pumps and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Remote Monitoring of Essential Equipment
We’ve highlighted the importance of monitoring essential plant assets in several earlier posts. In an upcoming ChemInnovations 2012 presentation, Remote Monitoring of Essential Equipment—An Expert is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Essential Asset Monitoring – Pump Demonstration
In an earlier post, Remote Monitoring of Essential Equipment, we shared how wireless vibration sensors were making it possible to monitor assets previously not deemed critical enough for wired,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Additional Measurements and their Financial Impact
I continue to mine all the great presentations from the Emerson Exchange event in Anaheim last fall. Here is a recap of another one, How Much Is Another Measurement Worth?, by Emerson’s Doug White. You...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Avoid Pumps Causing Unplanned Shutdowns
Update and bump: A recorded version of this webinar is now available. Visit here for a listing of other recorded & archived webinars. Original post: An unplanned shutdown can ruin your whole day,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Early Detection of Impending Pump Failures
Even non-critical pumps in your process can cause spills, vapor clouds, fires and worse. Most of these failure incidents provide warning well in time to solve the problem—if feedback mechanisms are in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ways to Improve Pump Reliability
A U.S. Department of Energy study on pump life cycle costs notes that maintenance and energy costs make up the vast majority of lifecycle costs. Pumps that are critical to the operation of the process...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Improving Pump Continuous Monitoring
Unless you are lucky enough to have a process that flows downhill, you likely have pumps moving liquids through the process. And if these liquids come in large volumes such as hydrocarbon movement and...
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