Dyke area of the Black Oil Terminal built in accordance with safety and regulatory requirements (Picture: Mott MacDonald)
Automation in Oil and Gas

Automation Improves Running of Oil and Gas Storage Terminals

Marketing storage terminals are vital to the working of any oil and gas company or refinery, as they store products, which are to be marketed to direct or indirect customers. These terminals can affect the overall business of an organization if not managed competently. Therefor, the smooth operation of the assets becomes vital for oil and gas companies...Here’s an overview of how actuation technology brought about efficiency at the Vishaka Black Oil Terminal.

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Not only on desktop computers or laptops, but also on tablets or smartphones: Discover what secrets your data can reveal: e.g. empowered decisions based on up-to-the-minute information, efficient resource management that enables cost savings, and transparency to increase asset performance through optimized monitoring. (© industrieblick, amenic181, Sergey Nivens/Fotolia.com, M-[Sahlmüller])
Operations Intelligence Solution

Discover What Secrets Your Data Can Reveal

As part of digitization strategies, the companies which produce the most data will not be the ones who will prevail. The winners will be those who use their data to generate real additional benefits. The real added value will be the way of collecting, analyzing, integrating, and presenting this data. Only organized, real-time data from operational and business levels can help make informed decisions.

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Smart Solutions for Smart Minds

What Will the Future of the Laboratory Look Like?

The modern laboratory environment is shaped by the same trends that affect most areas of today’s life: Flexibility, digitalization, communication — combined with the never-changing requirements for a lab such as safety, robustness, and cleanliness. In our article you will read more about the changes in hardware and software over the years and what the future of the laboratory might look like.

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Sartopore Platinum application (Picture: Sartorius Stedim Biotech)
Laboratory Equipment: Membrane Filters

Membranes – With the Perfect Pleats for Performance

It is becoming increasingly important for the biopharmaceutical industry to reduce production costs. The development of the new sterilizing-grade filter, Sartopore Platinum, therefore focused on three main factors; filtration efficacy, process safety and cost effectiveness. The result was a filter cartridge featuring performance specifications that helped optimize processes and filter handling. This article describes the new technologies implemented in these filter cartridges and the added value users will experience when using it.

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The H.C. Starck site in Goslar, Germany, required a flowmeter to provide feed-forward process data to their tungsten purification system. (Picture: Siemens)
Coriolis Flowmeter

How Coriolis Metering Aids Tungsten Purification

During a field test at H.C. Starck in Goslar, Germany, the new Sitrans FC430 Coriolis flowmeter demonstrated exceptional stability and reliability in measuring the concentration of tungsten metal. Other benefits of particular interest to H.C. Starck included the meter’s multi-parameter measurement capability and its modular design, which facilitates easy operation and servicing.

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Variable area flowmeter H250 M40 is now available with HART 7.4 communication (Krohne)
Flowmeter

Flowmeter Goes Hart 7.4

Field Comm Group FCG (formerly Hart Communication Foundation HCF) has validated Hart 7 compliance and interoperability and issued a „Hart Registered“ certificate for Krohne's H250 M40 flowmeter.

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