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Pressure Regulators in Upstream Oil and Gas Processing Applications
Managing pressures are a large part of the control strategies for upstream oil and gas applications. These pressures include those in the main processing lines, fuel lines and vapor spaces found in...
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Remotely Monitoring Storage Tank Pressure and Vacuum Relief Valves
In current times where oil supply exceeds demand, storage tanks are filling. A recent Reuters article, Oil glut up close: How Cushing copes with full crude tanks notes: There may be no better place to...
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Optimizing Gas Turbine Fuel Gas Supply
The mission of this blog has always been to bring the experts around Emerson to you. Many of these folks also share their expertise in our Emerson Exchange 365 global user community and with LinkedIn...
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Pressure Relief Valve Fugitive Emissions Testing
Earlier this week, the Valve World Americas Expo & Conference convened in Houston, Texas. This gathering provides an opportunity for flow control industry professionals to share experiences,...
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Managing Natural Gas Distribution Networks Pressure and Flow Rates
The role of natural gas in the global energy mix continues to expand as it displaces coal and nuclear power as a baseload source of energy for electrical power generation. It is also an energy source...
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Bulk Liquids Storage Pressure Control and Overfill Prevention
You only have to watch accident investigation videos such as the U.S. Chemical Safety Board’s Filling Blind video to understand the importance of pressure control and overfill prevention strategies for...
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Tank Blanketing Pressure Regulation Calculations
In an earlier post, Sizing Tank Blanketing Regulators, we described changes in the API Standard 2000 – Venting Atmosphere and Low-Pressure Storage Tanks with the release of the 7th edition. Emerson’s...
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Stabilizing Pressure Regulator Performance
In many areas of the industrialized world, natural gas transmission and distribution companies provide gas to commercial and industrial users, as well as many of us in our residences. For commercial...
View ArticleAssuring Single-Phase Vapor Sample for Gas Chromatograph
Gas chromatographs analyze the composition of hydrocarbon mixtures in process and natural gas applications. For online natural gas chromatography, the samples must be reliably conditioned to produce a...
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Avoiding Cavitation with Two-Stage Backpressure Regulator
I had an email exchange with the inventor of the multistage-stage back pressure regulator, Emerson’s Ruediger Niebel. Here’s the patent abstract: Multi-stage fluid regulators are described. An example...
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Regulated Pressure Control Solutions on FPSOs/FLNGs and Platforms
Emerson’s Wendell Love, Alexandre Minto, and Joe Ugarte described applications on floating production storage and offloading vessels (FPSOs), floating liquefied natural gas vessels, and offshore oil...
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Regulators versus Control Valves: What’s the Best Fit?
Keith Erskine with Emerson local business partner Puffer-Sweiven and Vince Mezzano with Fluor co-presented a look at considerations in selecting control valves versus regulators. Their abstract: This...
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Refinery and Chemical Plant Pressure Regulator Applications
Pressure regulators play an important role in process operations. Wikipedia describes their operation: A pressure regulator’s primary function is to match the flow of gas through the regulator to the...
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Sizing Tank Blanketing Regulators
Steve Attri Global Product ManagerIn March of 2014, API Standard 2000 (Venting Atmospheric and Low-Pressure Storage Tanks), 7th edition was released. In a whitepaper, Sizing Tank Blanketing Regulators...
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Pressure Regulator and Control Valve Best Fit Applications
Managing pressure is a fundamental control challenge for most process manufacturers and producers. A frequent question is whether a pressure regulator or control valve is best for a particular...
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Testing and Evaluating Pressure Regulator and Relief Valve Applications
Let’s close the week with peek into the labs where pressure regulator and relief valve testing is done. In this 4:21 second YouTube video, Emerson Lab Overview, the team managing the lines of regulator...
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Interactive Demonstration of Pressure Regulators in Action
Controlling the pressure levels is one of the challenges many instrumentation and automation engineers face. Pressure regulators are often used for this task, since they are self-regulating and don’t...
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Managing Pressure and Temperature on Oil and Gas Well Pad Burners
In oil and gas production and transportation, managing temperature and pressure is critical for safe and efficient operations. In a whitepaper, The Significance of Reliable Pressure Control in Oilfield...
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Faster Subsea Hydraulic Equipment Startups
Offshore oil and gas producers use hydraulic power to operate much of their subsea equipment. This equipment includes valves, cylinders, motors, manifolds, blowout preventers and remote operated...
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Working Monitor Pressure Regulators in Fuel Gas Pressure Control
Fuel gas drives the boilers, fired heaters, generators, compressors and more in many process manufacturing and production operations. Accurately controlling fuel gas pressure is important for optimum...
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Application Guide for Natural Gas Pressure Regulators
I saw on my LinkedIn home page that my friends who manage Fisher Regulators have released the Natural Gas Technologies Application Guide – Edition VII, which is now available online in eBook format…...
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Online Pressure Regulator CAD Drawing Resource
For process manufacturers and producers, regulating pressure throughout the process is important for safety, efficiency and reliability. We’ve highlighted the important role of pressure regulators in...
View ArticleHydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle Reliable Pressure Control
Electric vehicles powered by fuel cells and hydrogen require an accurate flow and pressure of the hydrogen to meet the load demands the vehicle places on the motor. Reliable and precise pressure...
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