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A Family Business Protects Their Product using Wireless Dataloggers
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: In August of 2014 CAS DataLoggers provided the automated temperature monitoring system for Longhini Sausage Co. Inc. in Connecticut, a family-owned business serving the Southern Connecticut area for ...
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Troubleshooting Accsense A2-05 Wired Pods
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Some Accsense Monitoring users have encountered a Power over Ethernet issue concerning Accsense A2-05 Ethernet Temperature Dataloggers. To quickly resolve this and other issues, CAS DataLoggers has ...
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Why Use H2 Fuel for LFL Analyzers?
Description: There are technologies available that will measure % LFL levels that require no fuel. On a first approach this may seem like a nice solution, as there are no utilities needed and the safety ...
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6 Things to Consider when Designing a System to Continuously Monitor Calorific Value
Description: Measuring the calorific value of mixed gaseous fuels can be difficult. These complex mixtures of combustible and non-combustible gases and vapors can vary in concentration or composition over time due ...
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Measure and Control the Demands of a Flare Stack Application
Description: Flare stacks are often used to dispose of the waste products from batch chemical processes. Their waste streams may contain many components such as ethylene, propylene, natural gas, mineral spirits, ...
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Not all FIDs are the Same
Description: While flame ionization is the appropriate sensor technology for measuring total hydrocarbon levels in the parts-per-million (PPM) range, not all FIDs are the same. Many FIDs offered to process ...
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Predictive emission monitoring systems The power of software analyzers
Description: 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 ...
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The Essential Requirements for a Reliable Solvent Vapor Analyzer
Description: Halloween is a time for ghosts, goblins & ghoul...but a really frightening thought would be having an unreliable monitoring system! Here are the essential requirements for a reliable solvent vapor ...
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Top 5 Characteristics of an Analyzer for a Flare Stack Application
Description: Fully Heated Assembly - Keeping all sample wetted parts of the sampling system and analyzer at a high temperature will ensure that all combustible vapors are properly measured, eliminating inaccurate ...
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Top reasons to install an analyzer in your flare stack application
Description: We've discussed the characteristics of an analyzer and the trends found in a flare stack application, but how about WHY you should install a monitoring system. Here are the top reasons you should have ...
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Trends in Flaring...Adaptability is Key
Description: Flare stacks are often used to dispose of the waste products from batch chemical processes. Their waste streams may contain many components such as ethylene, propylene, natural gas, mineral spirits, ...
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Beware of Low Humidity in the Printing Industry
From: Smart FogDescription: Do you work in the printing industry? If so, you should take a proactive approach towards monitoring the humidity levels in your workplace. Allowing airborne water vapor (or lack thereof) to remain ...
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Low Humidity and Electrostatic Discharge: What you should know
From: Smart FogDescription: Workplaces and other indoor environments with a low relative humidity (RH) are prone to a scientific phenomenon known as electrostatic discharge (ESD). ESD is defined as the sudden flow of electricity ...
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Testing safety critical PA systems in a nuclear power plant
From: NTi Audio AGDescription: This article describes considerations and the implementation of retrofitting a fully-automated procedure, for testing a public address system, into a safety-critical environment (a nuclear power ...
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BillerudKorsnäs board mill and PillowBlock load cells
Description: 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 ...
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Using the T&D Thermo App with TR-7wf Data Loggers
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: The T&D Thermo App from T&D Corporation can be used to accomplish a variety of functions with the TR-7wf Series of Wi-Fi enabled Wireless Data Loggers. This convenient App is available for free ...
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Accurately Measuring LNG Tanker Boil-Off Gas For Process Efficiency and Environmental Compliance
Description: With the recent growth in demand and production of liquefied natural gas (LNG), there has been an increase in trade and the need to transport it globally via LNG tanker ships. This increase in LNG ...
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Flow Meter Selection for Improved Gas Flow Measurements: Comparison of Differential Pressure and Thermal Dispersion Technologies
Description: As the costs of fuels and consumables (natural gas, hydrogen, oxygen, etc.) continue to rise, the ability to accurately measure the amount used in a process becomes significant in controlling costs ...
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Flow Switches for Refinery Water/Wastewater Control
Description: To ensure quality production of petroleum-based products in oil refineries, including gasoline, diesel, kerosene, heating oil, and byproducts for plastics and a variety of lubricants, operators must ...
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Greenhouse Gas Flow Monitoring Helps In Global Climate Change Effort
Description: As of 2010 most of the world's industrialized nations have recognized the climate change issues resulting from global warming that were presented in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. Since that time, the ...
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How A Biogas Processing System Manufacturer Identified the Best Flow Meter for Gas Measurement
Description: Klargastechnik Deutschland GmbH is a leading bioengineering, designer, manufacturer and installer of biogas and digester gas processing equipment and systems that is headquartered in Germany. ...
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Hydrocarbon Recovery System Relies on High Accuracy Mass Flow Meters
Description: Loading and unloading of tankers at tanker terminals, refineries, and chemical plants releases large flows of hydrocarbon gas vapour that must be captured to protect the environment. ...
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Improve Flow Accuracy and Reduce Costs: Putting Smart Flow Conditioning Practices to Work
Description: If you need to increase your plant's productivity and reduce its operational costs, focusing on flow measurement can result in significant monetary savings, potential product quality improvements and ...
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Innovative New Air/Gas Thermal Flow Meter Changes the Rules
Description: Upgrading a plant's gas flow meters can improve process efficiency, reduce energy costs and save on maintenance expenses in both equipment and labor, as well as improve reporting accuracy to local ...
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Seven Tips To Cut Wastewater Aeration Energy Costs With Thermal Mass Flow Meters
Description: One of the biggest expenses in wastewater treatment operations is the cost of energy to run the blowers and compressors that produce air for the aeration basins. The figures most often cited are that ...
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High Performance Sensor Data with Rotary Interfaces
Description: With the proliferation of high performance, real-time sensing applications, the bandwidth capabilities of the transmission lines that carry these signals are highlighted. Much of the advancement in ...
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Watts Flood Protection Shutdown Valves Prevent Against Costly Flood Damage
From: WattsDescription: Protect valuable laboratory research from flood damage or destruction due to backflow preventer discharge. ...
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QVE00112 for Motor Control Circuits
From: Light in Motion LLCDescription: This article discusses the benefits of using an advanced Optical Interrupter for Motor Control ...
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Top Ten Questions to Consider When Selecting a Flammability Analyzer
Description: Processes that are monitored for solvent vapor concentrations are typically enclosed, heated spaces that require an active sample drawing system. They have an intentional release of solvent at all ...
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Drilling deeper - can position sensors take the heat?
From: BEI SensorsDescription: As the world strives to find and extract more oil to meet the increasing global demand, the technology challenges of drilling deeper wells intensify significantly. The push to reach deeper oil ...
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Vibration Monitoring & Analysis of Machine Humming
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Gas turbine efficiency is critical to a facility's productivity. A global manufacturer of gas turbines uses Delphin Expert Vibro Data Acquisition & Control Systems for humming vibration analysis of ...
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Monitoring Meteorological Data Using a dataTaker
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers has provided the dataTaker environmental monitoring system for a construction company which required an onsite weather station for their study of weather damage upon building materials ...
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Haitian Hospital Monitors Vaccine Temperatures Over WiFi
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers has just provided the vaccine temperature monitoring solution for Hôpital Sacré-Coeur (HSC), a 122-bed tertiary hospital located in Milot, Haiti. To help protect these products, the ...
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Liquefied Natural Gas Fueling Stations
From: MSA SafetyDescription: Public and private fleet vehicles continue to migrate to use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and compressed< natural gas (CNG) as this cleaner-burning fuel also offers lower fuel costs and lower ...
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Monitoring Sample Stores for a Pharmaceutical Manufacturer
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Pharmaceutical product manufacturing is synonymous with strict quality control and traceability. A leading pharmaceutical manufacturer in the UK required a temperature data logger to continuously ...
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Natural Gas Fleet Maintenance Facilities
From: MSA SafetyDescription: LNG (liquefied natural gas) and CNG (compressed natural gas) are common methane fuels used by long haul trucking firms as well as municipal fleet vehicles, also known as NGVs (natural gas vehicles). ...
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Installation of MS45XX Pressure Sensors
Description: This paper provides suggested guidelines for the proper integration of the MS45x5 series pressure sensor into OEM designs. It also gives guidance in selecting the proper bypass capacitor and pressure ...
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LVDT Operation
Description: This document provides additional technical insight to customers who need a better understanding of LVDTs, as well as to engineers who design or specify electronics. ...
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Digital 3D Measurement of Complex Parts and Shapes
From: Micro-Epsilon GroupDescription: Mabotic develops and manufactures various designs of digital scanning units. scanCONTROL laser scanners are often used for digitisation of parts. ...
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Pharma Cold Chain Transparency Achieved with UHF RFID Temp Tags
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Showcasing the use of UHF RFID technology in the pharma cold chain, CAEN RFID products have successfully provided the temperature monitoring solution for Medlog, a subsidiary of pharmaceutical ...
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Why Use Nitrogen?
From: Terra Universal, Inc.Description: Nitrogen is the standard medium for contamination-free storage because it is relatively inert-it neither reacts with stored materials nor carries moisture-and because it can be isolated and purified ...
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New Precise Method for Measuring Strip Thickness Using Laser Profile Scanners
From: Micro-Epsilon GroupDescription: Increasingly complex processing, optimisation of raw material costs or new standards mean there is a continually growing demand for sensor technology. Optical measuring techniques are becoming more ...
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Thermal Mass Flow Meter Helps Mud Logging Contractor Meet U.S. EPA Flare Gas Emissions Monitoring Requirements
Description: Upstream oil/gas production companies around the globe depend on mud logging service companies to analyze mud samples that help them maintain the correct direction for their drilling field operations. ...
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LITRE METER LAUNCHES SECOND OIL AND GAS SAFETY SURVEY
From: Litre Meter LimitedDescription: Litre Meter has launched the second in a series of oil and gas industry safety surveys that will be introduced throughout 2014. ...
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Telemetry Solution Sends Rainfall Intensity Data Online
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers has just provided the hydrometric monitoring solution for a meteorologist manning a weather station measuring local rainfall intensity over the summer. Previously he had been looking ...
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The 6 Most Important Parts of a Temperature Monitoring System
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: In this White Paper, gather a basic understanding of the importance of a temperature monitoring system to protect your products and comply with standards. ...
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Improving Si-PIN X-ray Detector Performance
From: MOXTEK, Inc.Description: Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS) instrument manufacturers and research labs are continually pressing for x-ray components that enable higher performance at a lower cost. High performing x-ray ...
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Introducing a New Paradigm for Thermal Dispersion Mass Flow
From: Sierra Instruments, Inc.Description: Since the publication of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) standard on thermal dispersion mass flowmeters in 2011, there have been major advancements in the technology. A review of ...
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Tips for Selecting the Right Inductive Sensor
Description: Locon Sensor Systems Inc. has an extensive selection of Contrinex inductive sensors that serve as the perfect choice for detecting metallic targets up to 65mm away. Letâ s take an in-depth look at our ...
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New Autoclave Validation Data Logging System
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers and MadgeTech are excited to announce the release of the new AVS140 Autoclave Validation Data Logger System, featuring the HiTemp140 and the PR140 temperature and pressure data loggers ...
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Getting Down To Earth. A Practicle Guide To Earth Resistance Testing
From: MeggerDescription: Nothing is quite so common or abundantly available throughout the world as the earth's soil. We are more apt to think of earth as something to be tilled for planting or to be excavated for a building ...
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What Every Hospital Should Know About Temperature Monitoring
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Accurate monitoring and alarming is vital for product safety in children's vaccine storage, blood and tissue storage, and other pharmaceutical needs. We at CAS DataLoggers conducted our own ...
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Optical Dissolved Oxygen with ISM® - Minimizing Corrosion in Power Plants
Description: Dissolved oxygen (DO) control is widely used in power plant cycle chemistry treatment to minimize corrosion in boilers, turbines, and piping. Efficient DO control relies on obtaining fast, ...
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Wireless Environmental Monitoring in a Museum
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Eltek has supplied the next-generation wireless monitoring system for the interior of a prestigious museum located in Cambridge, England to ensure that the exhibits are in a controlled and ...
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How to Measure Current and Make Power Measurements
From: NIDescription: Learn how to measure current using transformers, transducers, and data acquisition devices. See how to use current measurements as part of a power quality analysis or power monitoring system Safely ...
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Enhance Control System Security Using Process Switches
Description: This white paper looks at how open Microsoft technology used in virtually all contemporary control systems, such as distributed control systems (DCS) and supervisory control and data acquisition ...
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I2C bus communication with digital HMI, HDI, HCLA, HCA and SSI pressure sensors
From: First Sensor AGDescription: The digital HMI, HDI, HCLA, HCA and SSI pressure sensors are calibrated and temperature compensated with an on-board ASIC, which provides a corrected digital pressure value. For the HDI, HCLA, HCA and ...
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LDE/LME Series - superior immunity to dust
From: First Sensor AGDescription: In this application note LDE/LME differential pressure sensors from First Sensor are experimentally compared to other sensors which use the same (thermal-anemometer-based, non-membrane) sensing ...
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SPI bus communication with digital HME and HCE pressure sensors
From: First Sensor AGDescription: The digital HME and HCE pressure sensors are calibrated and temperature compensated with an on-board ASIC, which provides a corrected digital pressure value. For the HCE series an additional analog ...
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Benefits of IEPE Accelerometer Isolation Design
Description: Integrated electronics piezoelectric (IEPE) accelerometers are a mainstay of the industrial vibration monitoring market. These rugged devices are found in a variety of industries monitoring anything ...
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Tech Brief: Corrosion Considerations for Underwater Vibration Monitoring
Description: Many customers install our sensors on submerged equipment such as pumps and platform support structures. In these applications in addition to the normal vibration requirements, consideration must be ...
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Monitoring and Alarming Multiple Incubators
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Recently Accsense VersaLog provided the temperature monitoring solution for an in vitro fertilization clinic. Staff needed to log temperature on three stacked automatic injection CO2 incubators used ...
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Application Note - Acoustic Transducer Testing with dScope Series III
From: Spectral MeasurementDescription: The requirements for acoustic testing are quite unique within the field of audio analysis, and testing requires particular care to ensure good rejection of unwanted reflections (echoes and ...
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Application Note - Audio Multi-tone Testing using FFT Analysis
From: Spectral MeasurementDescription: Audio analysis with dScope Series III using synchronous multi-tones is fast and powerful. It allows many parameters of the equipment under test to be measured simultaneously, using a single stimulus ...
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Application Note - Broadcast Audio Testing with dScope Series III
From: Spectral MeasurementDescription: The radio broadcast signal chain is a long and complex path involving electro-acoustic transducers, mixers, storage media, interface channels, signal processing and more. Each process within this path ...
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Application Note - FM Multiplex with RDS
From: Spectral MeasurementDescription: The ability to generate an FM Multiplex (MPX) for stereo FM radio reception testing is made possible by the extended audio bandwidth of the dScope Series III audio analyzer. This application note is ...
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Application Note - Impulse Response Testing with dScope Series III
From: Spectral MeasurementDescription: dScope Series III Version 1.2x releases feature a set of tools for measuring impulse responses and derived parameters. Impulse response analysis is a powerful tool which can be used to measure ...
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Application Note - Rapid Bin-Centres Frequency Response Analysis
From: Spectral MeasurementDescription: The dScope Series III is a powerful and comprehensive audio analyzer platform, designed to give the user a great deal of flexibility in analyzing audio signals and carriers, making the system ideally ...
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Performance Challenges in Audio Converter Design - Ian Dennis (Prism Sound)
From: Spectral MeasurementDescription: The habitat of audio converters is ever-changing. Early converters were built into stand-alone digital audio equipment. Later, they were built as stand-alone conversion devices with dedicated digital ...
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Sonic Differences Between Identical CDs
From: Spectral MeasurementDescription: The Numerically-Identical CD Mystery: A Study in Perception versus Measurement The authors investigate claims that numerically-identical CDs can sound noticeably different on replay. It has been ...
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Wireless Water Level Control System for Construction Site Dust Control
Description: Cannon provided a large construction site with a temporary yet sustainable water supply control system. ...
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Confused about Carbon Monoxide & Ventilation?
From: Arjay EngineeringDescription: How does new legislature regarding Carbon Monoxide and Ventilation affect you, as an HVAC contractor? An in-depth look at factors and considerations regarding the implementation of a gas monitoring ...
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Not All Interfaces Are Created Equal
From: Filter Minder®Description: Engineered Products Company (Filter Minder) has recently added to its portfolio a line of Electronic Pressure/Vacuum Sensors suitable for a broad range of transportation and industrial applications. ...
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Guide to Sensor Selection and Placement
From: MSA SafetyDescription: MSA's guide to gas sensor selection and placement. ...
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Comparison of Thermal Buffer Effectiveness
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Abstract: Experimental data was collected to examine the behavior of RTD probes in various thermal buffers in refrigerator and freezer applications. From the warm-up time vs. temperature curves, a ...
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Environmental Noise Control Trends in Instrumentation
From: Convergence InstrumentsDescription: 1 Noise Control Throughout the world, there is renewed effort to control noise levels in residential areas. High noise levels interfere with sleep and various human activities. In the long run it does ...
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Special Considerations for Mounting and Handling Pressure Sensors
From: All Sensors Corp.Description: All Sensors Pressure Points are application tips to simplify designing with microelectromechanical (MEMS) pressure sensors and avoiding common pitfalls. ...
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Understanding Common-Mode Differential Pressure
From: All Sensors Corp.Description: When pressure sensors are used to measure differential pressure (ΔP) for sensing flow, the common-mode pressure issues need to be considered. This is especially true for applications such as ...
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CAS DataLoggers Uses 3D Printing Technology in Prototype Design
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: At CAS DataLoggers we're working on a new prototype design for one of our data logger accessories using a 3D printer assembled by our own Engineering Manager Terry Nagy. Constructed from parts Terry ...
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'Smart' Temperature Data Logger Reduces Solder Waste
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers has just provided the dataTaker 'smart' temperature monitoring data logger for a manufacturing plant looking for a way to reduce the amount of time and money lost on wasted solder and ...
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Using Acoustic Beamforming for Pass-By Noise Source Detection
From: NIDescription: This application note discusses a technique known as beamforming for determining noise location of passing vehicles. The technique has several challenges including simultaneous acquisition of a large ...
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Nitriding Process Temperature Trending Using a Data Logger
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: This November CAS DataLoggers supplied the industrial automation solution to Northeast Coating Technologies in Kennebunk, Maine. Engineer Conrad Woodman is using our dataTaker DT80 Intelligent Data ...
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What is a Data Logger?
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: What is a datalogger? These products are widely-used measurement and data storage tools that monitor your product or process 24/7. Using a data logger you can keep an eye on temperature, humidity, ...
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Data Loggers Monitor & Alarm a Medical R&D Lab
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Earlier this year CAS DataLoggers provided the temperature monitoring and alarming setup for a medical laboratory requiring monitoring of product and sample temperature within multiple medical storage ...
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Temperature and Humidity Monitoring in a Clinical Operating Room
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers recently provided a clinic's operating room with a wireless Accsense temperature and humidity monitoring system. Surgical staff frequently complain about it 'raining' in their OR, ...
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Liquefied Natural Gas / Compressed Natural Gas Opportunities
From: MSA SafetyDescription: Fixed gas and flame detection applications. ...
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Thermal Mass Flow Meter Supports Feedback Control Loop In Boiler System for Thermal Electric Power Generation
Description: To meet China's growing need for electric power generation, the Guohua Ninghai Power Plant has a total planned operating capacity of 4 x 600 MW [Phase 1]. The plant is located south of Shanghai in ...
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Auditing of Fasteners to Prevent Failures
From: Mountz, Inc.Description: The critical question must be asked: If proper joint design and proper torque application still do not guarantee that effective tension has been achieved, how can we know if the installed fastener ...
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Dissolved Ozone Measurement in Pharmaceutical Water
Description: Ozone (O3) is an unstable tri-atomic form of oxygen. It is a very strongly oxidizing gas that is injected into water to remove organics that may contribute color, odor or taste. Most importantly, ...
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Five Reasons to Consider a Wireless Environmental Monitoring System
From: Testo Inc.Description: Monitoring, data management, and compliance are all issues environment administrators struggle with on a daily basis, regardless of industry. Accurate and reliable indoor environmental data for ...
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Impulse Response of 900-Series Biaxial Clinometers with Viscous and Non-Viscous Sensors
From: Jewell Instruments, LLCDescription: The following graphs show the response of 900-Series Biaxial Clinometers to a sudden impulse. ...
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Data Loggers Automate HVAC Product Testing
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers recently supplied the dataTaker remote monitoring solution at the end of May last year for a product development department in a Californian startup energy company. The business ...
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Sensors keep an eye on impact
From: PHD, Inc.Description: Sensors monitor when impact of machine assemblies changes. ...
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Accsense IT Checklist
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Accsense data loggers from CAS DataLoggers are ideal for many different applications including temperature monitoring in the life sciences, cold chain monitoring, and industrial machine monitoring. To ...
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Advancing Mass Flow Technology with Multi-Gas and Multi-Range Programmability
From: Brooks InstrumentDescription: The advent, benefits, and applications of MultiFlo technology. ...
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Hydrogen Monitoring of CVD Process Tools
Description: Hydrogen and the hazards of hydrogen leaks are present in many areas of semiconductor manufacturing facilities. While the basic need to continuously monitor hydrogen leaks is clear, the proper ...
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Monitoring Combustible Gases in Kilns
Description: Knowing how combustible gas concentrations vary over time can lead to a better understanding of the firing process and can inform users about safe loading practices. ...
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Environmental Monitoring in a Manufacturing Plant
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers recently delivered the datalogging solution for a production plant whose process machinery was mysteriously slowing down and causing production delays. This application required a ...
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How to implement SRS test without data measured?
From: DynaTronic CorporationDescription: This paper will emphasize the condition that measured data not available, then for Procedure I - Functional Shock, and Procedure V - Crash Hazard Shock Test, employ the applicable SRS spectrum as the ...
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The vibration reliability test for motorcycle motors
From: DynaTronic CorporationDescription: This paper explores vibrations in motorcycle motors using several steps and instrumentation devices. ...