This guide discusses how best to optimize combustion efficiency in any application using combustion plant. Combustion optimization in some form or other has become an absolute necessity for all...

The demands of sophisticated automated processing systems, the need for ever-tighter process control, and an increasingly stringent regulatory environment drive process engineers to seek more precise...

An ABB Model 266 pressure transmitter with remote seals has successfully resisted hydrogen permeation at our customer's premises. The ABB transmitter with a H-Shield coated diaphragm replaced a...

The ABB 266JST was designed to be highly accurate for custody transfer flow measurement. The combination of the electronic design and component selection, the extended, unique characterization process...

The Global Water Awards celebrate the most important achievements in the water, wastewater and desalination industries with a strong focus on innovative technology. ABB is recognized for its work on...

GHGSat, the global leader in high-resolution greenhouse gas monitoring from space, has successfully launched into orbit three additional methane satellites, carrying optical sensors built by ABB....

The majority of measurements made in the process industry are of temperature and pressure. Around half of the temperature measurements are used for monitoring purposes to secure product quality,...

The CoriolisMaster FCB450 provides a complete solution for black liquor cycle measurement in the pulp & paper industry....

Solids present in wastewater need to be safely and comprehensively treated and removed. This means not only removing toxic compounds, including both organic and inorganic materials such as heavy...

The Isotope Hydrology Laboratory of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) recently organized a water isotope inter-comparison (WICO) for international laboratory performance assessment of...

Pasteurisation is a key stage in the production of a wide range of food and beverage goods, including milk, dairy products, beers, juices and even water. During pasteurisation, products must be...

Steam is used to heat the autoclave contents, either by direct entry into the autoclave (where it is in contact with the product) or indirectly using a heat exchanger. The temperature is raised to a...

Batch control systems are used as an economical and safe way of controlling the amount of product that flows through a system....

ABB LM80 laser level transmitters were installed for this application at a brewery in the US Midwest. The laser transmitters were mounted on a support beam off the ceiling such that the distance to...

In the past, food and pharmaceutical manufacturers had to dismantle equipment between production batches for manual cleaning. Manual cleaning is time-consuming, expensive, and subject to variable...

During combustion - one of the most wide-spread industrial process across all industry sectors - the chemical energy present in fuels, such as coal, natural gas or oil, is converted into heat by...

In the food industry, it is frequently necessary to dose, pump, mix and blend liquids. Continuous mixing processes can be implemented directly in piping using ratio-based or Blendline control systems,...

In processing industries, especially in the food industry, it is frequently necessary to dose, pump, mix and blend liquids. The required components are dosed and mixed in containers one after the...

Metal powders of defined size and pureness are an important intermediate for further use in the production of minerals based industrial products such as paints, pyrotechnics, silicon nitride ceramics...

To optimize combustion in a lime oven, the air flow must preferably be captured in standard units such as scfm. The air is sucked in from the atmosphere, with the pressure being virtually constant at...

Ratio control systems are used extensively throughout industry to optimize the relationship of the mixture between two flows in a processing plant....

Milk is an important food for us. It is a natural product and consists primarily of water, fat, protein, milk sugar (lactose) and mineral compounds. It also contains enzymes, vitamins and trace...

Much of the food consumed each year is preserved by packaging it in hermeticallysealed containers in a process known as canning. One of the most important steps in the canning of foods is 'thermal...

The general objective when mixing different components is to achieve a particular concentration in the overall mixture. This is relatively straightforward to achieve by means of volumetric,...

Milling crushes, shreds or presses the cane or beets to extract the juice to which calcium oxide (milk of lime) is added. The calcium oxide raises the pH of the juice to a little over 11 and the water...

To extract raw sugar juice, the mill first crushes, shreds, or presses the cane or beets. The raw juice is highly pure, but contains undesirable organic and inorganic non-sugar constituents together...

The clear sugar juice coming from the filter following the second carbonation has a light straw color. Further heating has a tendency to react with residual amino acids, causing the juice to assume a...

BillerudKorsnäs' machines for manufacturing of packaging paper, consumer board and container board are running with Pressductor PillowBlock load cells providing accurate wire and web tension...

ABB instrumentation was an obvious choice when the Swedish pulp producer Vallviks Bruk AB built a new plant for biological water treatment. Vallviks Bruk AB, located about 200 km (125 miles) north of...

Every year the UN works to highlight the importance of one of our most precious natural resources on World Water Day. This year the UN's campaign calls on people to accelerate change and for...

ABB has a proven track record for supplying high performance measurement solutions to the water industry. Following successful projects with other water authorities, Melbourne Water turned to us. Our...

Digital technologies are providing new opportunities to enhance processes and productivity. This case study highlights the smart devices used in a range of power plant applications and a number of...

The Kraul & Wilkening u. Stelling company has been producing bio-ethanol and technical alcohol since 1856 and is a specialist in the production of highly concentrated alcohol....

This white paper uses the example of the catalytic reforming unit commonly found in a refinery to illustrate the options for using on-line analyzers to deliver useful, timely, and available process...

A steel rolling mill in China has achieved highly stable force measurement using robust, accurate load cells on its rolling mill, raising productivity, and cutting waste. Cutting the amount of wasted...

How after-sale services help ease the maintenance burden for water and wastewater treatment plants...

Therefore the Cylmate system is designed to provide real-time information required by electronically controlled engines in order to optimize the engine operation by closed loop control of the...

Recent advances in the field of biotechnology combined with a wave of patented drugs patent expirations have led to a global shift of focus and priorities in pharmaceutical industry. While chemically...

Accounting for sample memory effects in isotopic water measurements by laser spectroscopy....

High-precision, reliable temperature measurement, without the need to intervene in the process Quick and easy surface mounting, as well as eliminating the thermowell and the need to open the process,...

Carbon emissions have long been the focus of global efforts to reduce the impact of industrial activities on the environment. In September 2021, the US and the EU proposed that the reduction of...

ABB's Sabyasachi Bhattacharyya explains how ABB's digital suite connects the physical and digital worlds to help industrial players better manage their installed base of instrumentation devices and...

Enhanced long term accuracy and reliability through in situ verification....

In the recent decades, the market for the products of the industrial process industries has changed greatly. The manufacture of mass products has shifted to locations where raw materials are available...

As a market leader in level measurement solutions with the largest selection of agency approved level products, the ABB K-TEK level products line has the proven technology to provide solutions for the...

Industry-specific and applicationspecific training modules prepare end users to learn about everyday interactions and actual circumstances in which they will use specific equipment....

Better decision-making by leveraging digitalization capabilities available through instrumentation and plant management systems....

Users often question whether their measuring devices are working properly and within specified measurement accuracy. The new CoriolisMaster flowmeter models by ABB include technology for integrated...

As semiconductor wafer size decreases and complexity increases, semiconductor cleanrooms must attempt to reduce the levels of airborne molecular contaminants (AMCs). These AMCs can damage sensitive...

The LGR-ICOSTM Process Analyzer from ABB is a new, smart, industrial analyzer that provides a simple, robust and sensitive method of directly measuring trace O2 for purity verification and combustion...

Many strip producers struggle with the preparation and calibration of the large number of plates needed for radiometric gauges. This white paper discusses calibration plate preparation and provides an...

A major U.S. cement manufacturing facility completed a five-month field trial of the ABB ACF5000 hot / wet extractive FTIR Continuous Emission Monitoring System (CEMS) in August 2015....

The VIS multiphase flowmeter measures real-time flow rates of oil, gas and water in the most difficult multiphase environments that are typical of the oil and gas upstream sector - Measurement made...

Natural gas consumption is far from being constant over the months. Typically Natural Gas (NG) is stored in summer periods, when there is lower demand for it, and is withdrawn in the winter periods,...

Accurate control is critical to every process. As a means of ensuring that tasks such as production, distribution and treatment processes are carried out under the right conditions for the right...

Water is vital for life, yet despite 70 percent of the Earth’s surface being covered in water, limited quantities are available to sustain humanity. The 97 percent of water retained in the...

Gregorio Ciarlo, Federico Callero and Maurizio Simonelli, ABB SpA, Italy, discuss the application of predictive emission monitoring systems in applications when fuel characteristics are variable or in...

In the process industries, legal requirements regulate the continuous acquisition of emission data to monitor and control pollutants released into the atmosphere. Data verifies that plant emissions do...

Remote seals protect transmitters when measuring difficult fluids and expand the applications for pressure measurement solutions...

Pressure Measurement Theory and Application Guide White Paper Engineered solutions for all applications...

Temperature is one of seven basic values in the current SI-System of units and is probably the most important parameter in measurement technology. Temperature measurements roughly divide into three...

Non-contacting temperature measurement techniques for the processing industries complement thermocouple and RTD sensors. Innovations in infrared technology are reducing their cost and size while...

When oil and gas are extracted, large amounts of brine water are typically brought to the surface. More than 140,000 wells in operation in the United States produce over 2 billion gallons of water...

The ability to better manage water supplies is becoming increasingly important as demand for water continues to escalate. Even in the UK, which enjoys a wetter climate than many global regions,...

How LGR's patented analyzing technique, Off-Axis Integrated Cavity Output Spectroscopy (OA-ICOS), is used to quantify 18O and ethanol content in wines....

A metal rolling mill in Northern Europe has improved its productivity, ensuring it can maximize the production of high-quality, recycled stainless steel. As the world seeks to reduce energy...

This document outlines the basics of metering system designs that energy provider typically proposes to fit to all their Landfill Gas (LFG), Coal Mine Methane (CMM) or Biogas fuelled power generating...

Flow measurement is one of the most important aspects of process control and is found in a wide variety of industry sectors, including upstream, midstream, and downstream oil and gas; chemicals; power...

We say that a particular water sample is turbid when the sample is hazy or cloudy. The main effect of the haziness is that we cannot see clearly through the sample after a certain distance, as the...

Peyto Exploration and Development in Alberta, Canada has experienced significant savings and natural gas production efficiencies by standardizing well pad designs....

New EPA regulations are requiring hydrogen chloride (HCI) emissions to be monitored in concentrations below 1 ppm for power plants and 3 ppm for cement plants. The properties of HCI, its reaction to...

ABB TZIDC Intelligent Positioner with Remote Sensor helps achieve precise control of the boiler combustion air dampers for reduction of emissions, while reducing maintenance and operating costs....

Understanding Coriolis mass flowmeters....

One of the most critical measurements in the processing industries is rate of flow. In 2010, the ARC Advisory Group estimated the total instrumentation market (not including process analytical...

By 2020, the number of connected things will triple from 6 billion to 20 billion. Digitalization is creating new business opportunities and alternative business models....

Sinochem Sinopec Shanghai Orient Petrochemical Terminal Co., Ltd. (former Shanghai Orient Tank Co., Ltd.) was established in 1989, and is now located in Pudong District of Shanghai. It is a...

In an era of increased scrutiny for delivering efficient and sustainable industrial practices, the maxim 'you can't manage what you don't measure' is well known to anyone, particularly those whose...

On World Water Day held annually in March the UN works to highlight the importance of one of our most precious natural resources. This year the UN's campaign calls on the world to accelerate change...

How modular data management solutions help achieve better asset optimization...

Misinformation about WirelessHART networks prevails among many instrument engineers in the process industries. This article attempts to set the record straight by debunking 7 myths about these...