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P.I. Weekly Word Play (January 13)

Jan 14, 2025 | piprocessinstrumentation.com | Kelly Albano

We are back with brand new challenges for 2025! Join the fun each week with a Word Play challenge containing words inspired by our industry! Can you guess this week’s new word? Put your skills to the test below and see how you stack up against others!How to play: a gray letter indicates that the letter is not in the solution at all, yellow signifies that the letter is in the word but not in the correct position, and green indicates that you guessed the correct letter in the correct place.
Aspects of instrument safety that should be considered in chemical plants

Nov 12, 2024 | piprocessinstrumentation.com | Kelly Albano

Safety is more than just SIL (Safety Integrity Level) but it comes up first in most discussions when safety is mentioned. In fact, plant safety includes several factors such as hazardous approvals, occupational and process safety, and cybersecurity, on top of functional safety (e.g. SIL IEC 61508/61511). Here is a brief overview of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Standards. IEC 61511 deals with proven in use equipment.
Case study: Coriolis flowmeter eliminates laborious net oil calculations at large oil tank farm

Oct 17, 2024 | piprocessinstrumentation.com | Kelly Albano

As part of a massive overhaul in upgrading the infrastructure and processes of its oil production operations that included more than 400 wells over 9,000 acres of land north of Casper, Wyoming, an oil exploration and production company looked to automate its manual data collection methodologies to support on-demand, real-time data management and eliminate process steps associated with determining net oil calculations during pre-production stages.
Installation and maintenance diagnostics help speed commissioning and simplify ongoing support

Sep 10, 2024 | piprocessinstrumentation.com | Kelly Albano

In the fourth installment of this five-article series on advanced diagnostics we will examine what installation and maintenance diagnostics can detect about the infrastructure supporting a control system. As a quick review:In the first article of the series, we provided an overview of instrumentation diagnostics, with five ways they are used in process manufacturing environments. In the second, we focused on device diagnostics and what an instrument can tell us about its own condition.
P.I. Word Play. Test your skills now, guess the word in 6 or fewer tries!

Sep 6, 2024 | piprocessinstrumentation.com | Kelly Albano

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Test your skills now, guess the word in 6 or fewer tries!

Aug 26, 2024 | piprocessinstrumentation.com | Kelly Albano

How many guesses can you get this week's P.I. Word Play in? Test your skills below and see how you stack up to every one else!
Device diagnostics ensure instrument health

Jun 11, 2024 | piprocessinstrumentation.com | Kelly Albano

In the first article of this series, we took a high-altitude overview of the basics of instrumentation diagnostics, looking at six ways these capabilities are used in process manufacturing environments. In this, our second installment, we will do a deeper dive into the first area: device diagnostics. This information is what an instrument is telling us about itself, which is where the whole diagnostics concept began.
Quiz Corner: Differential pressure level calibration (raw material storage tank)

May 17, 2024 | piprocessinstrumentation.com | David Spitzer |Kelly Albano |Mike Strobel

Level instrumentation is required for a new vertical raw material storage tank that is 3 meters in diameter, 10 meters high, and open to the atmosphere. The specific gravity and viscosity of the raw material are 1.00 and 250 cP, respectively. The tank sits on a concrete slab and its top is flat. Which of the following are reasonable calibrations for the new differential pressure level transmitter?
Understanding and employing the benefits of instrumentation diagnostics

Apr 8, 2024 | piprocessinstrumentation.com | Kelly Albano |Mike Strobel

Just as consumer electronics have advanced over the past few decades, improvements in industrial technologies have been just as dramatic. The capabilities of a flowmeter or pressure transmitter of today are light years ahead of what was possible in 1975 or even 1995, and areas of improvement often relate to diagnostics in many forms.