Last week, I highlighted Emerson's Heather Schwalje thoughts on Continuous Process Verification per U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) guidelines. In a comment, Pharmaceutical Manufacturing magazine senior editor, Paul Thomas, highlighted a great article, A...
regulatory compliance
How Countries Can Boost Their Economies through Mining
Emerson's Eric Kuebler, a metals & mining industry manager for the Fisher Valve team, shares his thoughts on how mining can boost a country's economic growth. Northern Quebec is a largely untouched wilderness mainly consisting of the northern arctic regions of...
Addressing the Challenges of the Renewable Fuel Standards Regulations
U.S. refiners have been changing the way they make the fuels we use every day as a result of federal regulations. Emerson's Patrick Truesdale and Chris Connor will present at the 2011 Emerson Exchange on the Renewable Fuel Standards 2 (RFS2). These regulations became...
Ethanol in the Budget Spotlight
Emerson's Alan Novak, who leads the alternative energy industry team, highlights some of the recent happenings with regard to U.S. federal budget discussions and their impact on the ethanol production industry: The pending expiration of a long-standing ethanol support...
Confusing Personal and Process Safety?
Over at the Process Safety Management (1000+) LinkedIn group is a provocative question, Personal Safety & Process Safety - does management really confuse the two? Do engineers confuse them? The thread began a month ago and has 77 responses and 4 "likes" to date....
Greenhouse Gas Monitoring In, Energy Efficiency Out
Over at ControlGlobal.com's Sound Off! Editors' Blog is a post, Greenhouse Gases-- There's a Pony in There Somewhere! #carbondioxide #control #pauto #globalwarming #ruminants. The post by Control magazine Editor in Chief Walt Boyes highlights Emerson's Patrick...
Process Safety Lessons Learned
Emerson's Mike Boudreaux shares some thoughts on a recent ControlGlobal.com article on process manufacturing accidents: Process safety has been a popular topic these days. Unfortunately, it has hit mainstream press because of high profile safety incidents such as last...
New Middle East Flow Calibration Center
Over the last few years, the Middle East region has greatly expanded its chemical, petrochemical, refining, and other process manufacturing capacities. ArabianBusiness.com summed it up: The rapidly expanding downstream sector in the Middle East has led technology...
Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rules and Increasing Energy Efficiency
A little more than one year ago, I highlighted how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Reporting Rules were beginning to impact U.S. process manufacturers. The post, EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rules and Flow Measurement shared ways...
Safety Standards and Burner Management Systems
In prior posts on safety and regulatory standards and burner management functional safety, I highlighted some of the developments in standards for burner management systems (BMS). The DeltaV SIS process safety system recently received additional TÜV functional safety...
Combustion Gas Measurement and Monitoring Standards
A person searching on the subject of gas-fired heaters came upon one of the many posts here on this blog. He wanted to know: Is there any International standard or code compliance to measure or monitor the gases (like type of gas and range, etc.) in the gas fired...
40 CFR 98 Tier 4 Greenhouse Gas Reporting with Stack Emissions Flow Meter Livestream
Here is a final recorded livestreamed presentation I captured last week at the Emerson Exchange. Emerson's Brian Fieser and Joel Lemke presented 40 CFR 98 Tier 4 Greenhouse Gas Reporting with Stack Emissions Flow Meter. Unfortunately, the recording is joined in...
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