Archive for the ‘Combustion’ Category

Coriolis Measurement in Filling and Combustion Applications

Posted in Combustion, Flow on Wednesday, January 4th, 2012. No comments yet
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My YouTube subscription feed alerted me to a new pair of YouTube videos from Emerson’s Micro Motion brand team– Filling with Coriolis and Combustion Control with Coriolis. These videos were created at the Emerson Exchange conference this past October. They are good examples showing how Coriolis flow and density measurement is applied in filling and combustion [...]

Efficient Consumption of Heavy Fuel Oil in Shipping Operations

Posted in Combustion, Marine, Measurement on Tuesday, June 21st, 2011. No comments yet
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The trend for process manufacturers to globalize production over the last few decades has created large distances between production and consumption, and increased the need for shipping to close these distances. The Lloyd’s Register blog shares in a post, Heavy fuel oil: the challenges: With the huge bulge in the orderbook still being delivered into [...]

Analyzing Flue Gas Emissions

Posted in Analyzers, Combustion on Tuesday, April 27th, 2010. No comments yet
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Back in January, I shared some thoughts from Emerson’s Doug Simmers on improving combustion in a post, Optimum Combustion for Reduced Greenhouse Emissions. He’ll be presenting later this year on flue gas analysis and I was able to get my hands on a rough draft. I’ll highlight a few of his early ideas and hope [...]

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Optimum Combustion for Reduced Greenhouse Emissions

Posted in Analyzers, Combustion on Tuesday, January 26th, 2010. No comments yet
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Last week, I highlighted some of the greenhouse gas regulatory reporting changes happening here in the U.S. I checked in with Emerson’s Doug Simmers, a global product manager in the Rosemount Analytical Combustion Gas business. Although alternative sources of energy continue to grow as a percentage of energy consumed, combustion of oil, gas, and coal [...]

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Reducing NOx through Combustion Optimization

Posted in Combustion, Power, Process Optimization on Friday, August 21st, 2009. No comments yet
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If you’re in the coal-fired power generation business, you may know that Coal-Gen 2009 is going on this week. During the conference, a Midwest power producer and the Emerson Power & Water Solutions team gave a joint presentation on combustion optimization. Emerson’s Jeff Williams, one of the presenters, was kind enough to send me a [...]

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More Efficient Combustion Begins With Better Measurement

Posted in Combustion, Energy Management, Measurement, Process Optimization, Safety on Tuesday, October 21st, 2008. No comments yet

Last week at the ISA Expo in Houston, I sat in on a great session featuring Emerson’s Ed Bailey, as well as folks from Siemens, Ametek and a private consultant with years of experience with Dow Corning. The session was entitled, Energy Management Issues for Process Optimization, and it had the following description: Subjects open [...]

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