Articles, tips, and insights on industrial instrumentation, level and flow measurement, and process automation.
Fires in a coal-fired plant's fuel system rarely happen out of nowhere. There is usually a sign hours or even days earlier: a slowly rising temperature inside a...
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Turbines and generators are the most expensive equipment in a power plant. Both rotate thousands of times per minute for months without stopping, supported by b...
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A power plant can have hundreds of temperature measuring points. In the control room they appear as a row of values on a screen, but each one keeps part of the...
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A temperature sensor that works well in a plant on land will not necessarily last on board a ship. Sea air carries salt that speeds up corrosion, engines and pr...
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Tank measurement on a ship is often thought of only in terms of level. Yet level alone is not enough to know the true quantity and condition of what is in the t...
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At sea, a ship cannot simply pull over when an engine has a problem. Engine room crews therefore rely on instrument readings to know the condition of their equi...
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A solar cell production line looks like a row of clean, orderly machines. Behind it are utility systems that never stop: cooling water, ultrapure water, and was...
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In a solar panel plant, a temperature sensor installed in a chemical bath has to do more than read accurately. It must survive years of immersion in acid or alk...
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A solar cell's efficiency is decided long before the panel goes up on a roof. A few degrees of difference in a chemical bath during texturing can change the waf...
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A temperature sensor that works well in a food plant or a commercial building will not necessarily last in a steel plant. Here, the sensor head can be exposed t...
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