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Contents
Process Industry News & Events (3-5)
Applications (6 - 8)
Process Control (10-11)
Fluids & Liquids Handling inc Pumps & Valves (13-20)
Drives (13)
Instrumentation (20-21)
Health & Safety (24)
Electrical Engineering (25)
Networking & Communications (25)
Connectors (25)
Analysers (25)
Enclosures (38)
Filtration & Separation (28)
Solids Handling & Processing Supplement/SHAPA News (29 -48 - Numbered 1SP - 19SP)
Editorial Features
Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme (5)
Industrial companies across the UK have until 30 September to register for the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme (CRC). This is a landmark date for companies to ensure they avoid the potential fines of late registration. However, as Mark Chrimes, Product Manager for Siemens Industry Automation & Drive Technologies discusses, this is just the starting point and for those who prepare well, the CRC offers great opportunities.
SCADA System Switch - The Easy Way (12)
Transferring existing applications from one SCADA system to another tends to be associated with intensive engineering operations and thereby high costs. However, this is not the case if the procedure takes a methodological approach, if developers of the source and target system assume responsibility for the migration, and if this procedure is predominantly automated, thus ensuring a fast, smooth and consistently reliable transfer.
Heat for Filtration Systems (18-19)
In the majority of applications where gaseous or liquid filtration is used, applying low levels of heat solves tricky issues with condensation, viscosity and flow.
Filtration system users often face difficult choices and have to make compromises when deciding how to heat their filters. Many of the current solutions provide a short operating life and could pose various health and safety risks.
In this white paper we will explore some of the choices available, the key issues to consider, and look at how users of filtration systems can solve these issues.
Mass or Volume Flow - What they mean & how to choose (22-23)
Confusion often arises over the difference between mass and volume flow measurement and when a particular measurement should be applied. Though both technologies will deliver almost identical results under certain conditions, the deviations that can occur where a process is subject to pressure and temperature changes makes it crucial to make the right choice from the outset. Mark Allinson, Process Flow Specialist for ABB’s UK instrumentation business, explains the differences between mass and volume flow measurement and highlights the best applications for each.
Fast Track Switching for Automation IT Applications (26-27)
The concept of Automation IT is having a tremendous impact on the market because it has concentrated discussions about the use of Ethernet in industry on the most important factor: the benefits to the customer. These benefits result from the consistent use of standard Ethernet IEEE 802.3 networks. In automation applications, it is essential that features such as deterministic data transport are incorporated: something that cannot be achieved by using the switching technology used in standard Ethernet systems. In reality, the customer benefits of Automation IT can only be realised by adding a new dimension to standard Ethernet: The new Fast Track Switching Technology (FTS) described in this article.
Bulk Particulate Handling Processes (6SP - 7SP)
Get the Max out of Mixers (9SP)
Stretching the Boundaries for Weighbridge Systems (10SP)
Weighbridges continue to play an increasingly vital role in the process and related industries, acting as critical control points for vehicles arriving and leaving sites. The traditional concept of a standalone weighbridge with adjacent office, weighbridge clerk and ticket printer is being transformed; shifting the emphasis to encompass and enhance key areas such as data acquisition, vehicle management and site security, together with improved overall system integration - site wide, nationwide and internationally.
Tank Cleaning is a Virtue (13SP)
According to Sinner’s Circle ( Fig. 1) there are four parameters in any cleaning process that define the protocol and determine its efficiency: Temperature, Chemistry, Mechanical action and Time. For any cleaning process to be completely successful, these four factors should be in balance.
Level Control for Solids (14SP)
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