Emerson Process Management has announced availability of Essential Asset Monitoring solutions, a family of integrated wireless application solutions for equipment monitoring.
 
The pre-engineered monitoring and analysis solutions embed process and equipment knowledge into a wide range of applications and use existing wired and new wireless instruments to form a network for continuous automated expert monitoring. Integrated solutions are available for pumps, blowers, compressors, heat exchangers, fired heaters, corrosion, and cooling towers.

The new 24/7 online monitoring solutions reduce monitoring costs through pre-engineering savings and wireless efficiency. Whereas wired continuous monitoring is traditionally afforded for only the most expensive and critical assets, the lower costs of Essential Asset Monitoring solutions enable expanded asset oversight.
 
"Equipment failures are a common cause of outages and incidents," commented Tom Snead, president, global projects, Emerson. "Predictive monitoring by Essential Asset Monitoring solutions delivers diagnostics as well as equipment and process health alerts that enable timely corrective actions to keep the facility online, increasing production availability and savings on maintenance and energy costs."
 
Snead continued, "Our research has shown that unit or site-wide Essential Asset Monitoring application solutions can help owner-operators increase production capacity by 1.2%, save 14% of maintenance costs, and 2% of energy costs."

The pre-engineered solutions are scalable. Users simply choose the number and type of applications that monitor threats specific to their facility.  Their resulting solution will include a wireless field network communicating data from monitoring instruments to AMS Suite operator graphics and maintenance screens, and to host systems and data applications.

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Emerson Process Management has announced expanded asset support in the AMS Suite predictive maintenance software application, providing users a more comprehensive asset management application. Connectivity was established to PROFIBUS PA devices, which expands the list of assets users can integrate into AMS Suite to enable a consistent maintenance approach. In addition, AMS Suite now supports both Electronic Device Description Language (EDDL) and FDT/DTM to provide users with a single application to support the full capabilities of all their devices.

The addition of PROFIBUS PA provides a complete PROFIBUS solution with the DeltaV control system, corresponding to capability already available for PROFIBUS DP devices in DeltaV. PROFIBUS DP and PA support on third party hosts is also available via the Softing FG PROFIBUS family of interfaces.

Users are easily able to launch HART and FOUNDATION fieldbus Device Type Managers (DTMs) via the DTM Launcher application, provided as a standard part of AMS Device Manager. Support for DTMs is the first step in providing Field Device Integration (FDI)-compliant products within AMS Suite. FDI is the convergence of field device management options into a unified standard to give users a single common solution for managing information for field devices.

Expanded asset support gives users the ability to choose devices based on the best fit for their application regardless of the manufacturer or communication protocol. "Our users need the right information at the right time and want to be able to access that information in a consistent manner," said Ron Martin, vice president/general manager of Emerson’s Asset Optimization and Lifecycle Care. "We are committed to openness and full support of industry standards to give our users the ultimate freedom in choice, and a consistent way to manage and maintain their assets without compromise."
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Emerson Process Management has released an updated version of its Fisher Specification Manager valve selection software, which features a clear, sequential process to such tasks as building ISA specification sheets, predicting valve operating noise levels and exporting dimensional data for Fisher and Baumann control valves. The latest version can be downloaded from www.FisherSpecificationManager.com.

AUSTIN, TX — Emerson Process Management's Smart Wireless technology has enabled CalPortland Company to comply with air quality emissions requirements at its Colton, California, cement plant, despite rotating equipment and harsh conditions.

The CalPortland installation includes Emerson's self-organizing wireless network of field instrumentation that reliably monitors the process used to reduce NOx emissions inside a rotating cement kiln at the facility. NOx is a byproduct of the pyro process involved in the chemical procedure of cement manufacture

The wireless network includes four of Emerson's Rosemount wireless temperature transmitters, one wireless DP transmitter, and a Smart Wireless Gateway. CalPortland chose wireless because it was the best solution that could meet the very challenging application. "The rotation, extreme temperature, and the location of the kiln (at 20 to 40 feet above grade), made using a wired solution impractical," said Steve Tyrrell, CalPortland senior electrical supervisor.

"With a rotary kiln, the continued addition of process variable instrumentation to optimize the control strategy becomes overwhelming.  The wireless option allowed for movement of the process indicators to various positions on the kiln for development of the control strategy," continued Tyrrell. "Minimal maintenance of the wireless option also ensures reliability of the process signals for greater process control. We thought this was a perfect opportunity to apply wireless."

The gradually-sloped 540-foot-long, 13-foot-diameter kiln rotates almost twice a minute and operates at temperatures as high as 2,800° Fahrenheit. The company uses a Selective Non-Catalytic Reduction (SNCR) process of spraying ammonia into the kiln to control NOx emissions. It needed to monitor the temperature of the ammonia, the process gases as well as the kiln's slight vacuum. It had tried using a slip ring around the kiln to check these parameters but frictional wear ground down the ring and the growth of the kiln as it heated up broke insulators isolating the process signal.

"By installing this wireless network, we were able to monitor and treat the NOx in the kiln successfully when there was no other alternative," Tyrrell said. "Wireless was a brilliant option for our project. This has allowed us to comply with the NOx emissions regulations and improve control over the process."

The installation of the four devices onto the kiln was completed in one day. The DP transmitter was installed on the injection shroud to measure the extremely low vacuum inside the kiln. The temperature transmitters were installed at different locations around the kiln.

The self-organizing network transmits signals reliably to a Smart Wireless Gateway despite the fact that devices are installed at opposite sides of the kiln. The line-of-sight view is blocked at times between some devices and the gateway but no data has been lost. The gateway is integrated with the facility's existing PLC control system.

"Our plan is to equip our second kiln at this facility with the same equipment later as market conditions dictate," Tyrrell said.

In addition to the Smart Wireless solutions already installed at CalPortland Company, Emerson offers a wide range of wireless field instrumentation and plant operations equipment, including Fisher position monitors,  Rosemount Analytical and Machinery Health Management devices, and native wireless interfaces to AMS Suite predictive maintenance software, DeltaV digital automation systems, and SmartStart Services. SmartWireless is an extension of Emerson's PlantWeb digital plant architecture.

For more information about Smart Wireless, visit www.EmersonProcess.com/SmartWireless, and for videos go to www.EmersonSmartWireless.com/Videos.

Emerson Process Management (www.emersonprocess.com), an Emerson business, is a leader in helping businesses automate their production, processing and distribution in the chemical, oil and gas, refining, pulp and paper, power, water and wastewater treatment, mining and metals, food and beverage, life sciences and other industries.

Austin, TX - Emerson Process Management has added discrete switches as well as vibration and pH transmitters to the range of components available in its Smart Wireless field starter kit. Currently deployed in hundreds of installations across industries and world regions, the kit enables users to choose from a wide range of functions, to realize operations improvement, while experiencing wireless technology as a basis for future innovation and advantages. Complete use of standard WirelessHARTT technology further enhances user flexibility.