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Portable Leak Detection Instrument Improves Heat Rate at Electric Power Plant.
that each use about 1,000 kilowatt hours of energy per month.) You can see the plant's water hyperbolic cooling towers (450' tall and 400' across) and 675' stack from many miles away. Condensor leak detection improves heat rate. Portable leak detection instrument improves heat rate at electric...
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Monitor Your Pump for Process Efficiency
a pump's. process equipment. bearings or seals. If repair is even possible,. it is going to be a very expensive. proposition. Of course, such dramatic. failures also often ruin the material being. processed or reduce process line capacity. Eliminating Irregular Flows. For proper and efficient...
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Dual Purpose Instruments in Process Automation (.pdf)
Safety. By: Thomas Nieswandt WIKA Alexander Wiegand GmbH & Co. KG and Scott Horne, WIKA. Instrument Corporation. Progress in electronics can best be compared to a turbocharger in its acceleration of. process automation. Microprocessors and circuits are the pacemakers in the quest for. more cost effective...
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Process Signature VerificationTM Monitoring for Medical Device Manufacturing (.pdf)
. The variation in measurement obtained with one. measurement instrument when used several times by a. single operator measuring the identical characteristic on the. same part. Reproducibility. The variation obtained when more than one person measures. a single part. PSV. Process Signature...
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Process Automation System Independent Process Monitoring and Field Device Management
automation. system is managed with full control of instrument maintenance activities. Interaction with fi eld devices by maintenance. and service people is managed by process engineers and operators to ensure such interaction will not affect control of. the process. If required Fieldgates...
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Don t Drift out of Control
By Dan Collins, Manager of DCS Solution Partner Program, Siemens Energy & Automation If the instrument's process value is critical enough to be a validated instrument that requires periodic calibration, then what happens when it is discovered to be out of calibration? By protocol, must a review...
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MICRO: Product Tech News
), electron projection, and low-energy E-beam proximity projection lithography. It can repair opaque and clear defects on photomasks and be customized to deposit several materials, including SiO . The instrument has a high-resolution Gemini E-beam column featuring low-voltage operation...
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Reduce Calibration Costs and Improve Sensor Integrity through Redundancy and Statistical Analysis
. A degrading instrument will provide you a value; you have no inherent way to recognize that it has drifted out of specifications. It will appear to be operating properly. There is no equivalent perception of rough-running automobile.If the value is so critical that process management cannot operate without...
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Realizing Chillers' Capabilities in Laboratories (.pdf)
restrictions on tap water usage and the need for tighter stability with today's sophisticated equipment, chillers have become a necessity. Additionally, tap water may contain harmful particulates that can build up in an instrument's cooling lines. This can cause equipment failure, leading to expensive...
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MICRO: Prod Tech News
, and easy-to-use instrument that offers standardized accuracy of +-0.4% in a portable, low-maintenance unit. The instrument's dimensionally based primary accuracy is superior to pressure-based secondary methods. The field-rugged system is used in the manufacture, inspection, validation...