46 Measurement and Testing
Portable IR Analyser Measures Soot Levels in Diesel Engine Oils in Under 30 Seconds Without Sample Preparation
Extended drain times, combined with stringent emission requirements, make it important to routinely check the soot levels in diesel engine lubricating oil. Rapid, on-site field measurement of soot concentration levels in diesel engine oils at levels as high as 12 - 15% takes less than 30 seconds with the InfraCal Soot Meter available from Wilks Enterprise, Inc. (USA). This compact, pushbutton analyser provides direct readout of the percent of suspended carbon (soot) in diesel engine lubricating oils without sample preparation, dilution, or solvents and messy transmission cells to clean. Currently, an ASTM Method covering the InfraCal Soot Meter entitled, "Condition Monitoring of Soot in In-Service Petroleum and Hydrocarbon-Based Lubricants Using a Fixed-Filter Infrared (IR) Instrument", is pending.
Since the InfraCal Soot Meter was specifically designed for easy, on-site testing, it represents a major time savings from the widely-used and accepted thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and FT-IR methods that are impractical as field analysis methods. The measurement data obtained from the Soot Meter will correlate to TGA and FT-IR analysis techniques with several distinct advantages. Analysis time with the InfraCal Soot Meter is less than 30 seconds per sample with direct readout of soot levels as high as 12 – 15% without sample dilution or transmission cells to clean. The Soot Meter is significantly lower in cost and one step, pushbutton operation makes it easy to use with minimal operator training.
A rugged, no-moving parts design ensures years of virtually maintenance-free operation with the InfraCal Soot Meter. Weighing less than 5 lbs., it operates off 12 volt d.c. power and is ideal for use along side diesel engines for on-site, field measurements, in the used oil/engine testing laboratory, at power generation stations, or for truck, bus, and off-highway equipment fleets. The InfraCal Soot Meter is Ideal for use on all types of diesel lubricating oils and engines.
Reader Reply Card No Enhanced Version of Integrated Production Control System
Yokogawa Electric Corporation (Netherlands) announces the release of version R4.03 of the company's flagship product, the CENTUM(R) VP integrated production control system. CENTUM VP is a core platform of the VigilantPlant(R)
concept of realising the ideal plant.
This new version includes enhanced security functions, a new batch management package, and improved HART communication support. These changes will enable Yokogawa's customers to achieve a higher level of safety, reliability, and productivity.
In recent years, Yokogawa's customers have had to deal with drastic changes in their market environment and respond to a diverse range of consumer needs. It is imperative that they adjust and optimise their plant operations in response to these market changes and innovations in production technologies. In the knowledge that safety, reliability, and productivity are the key factors in plant operations, Yokogawa has been providing the requisite products, solutions, and services. The CENTUM VP integrated production control system is at the core of this product offering that realises Yokogawa's VigilantPlant vision of the ideal plant.
With this new version, Yokogawa has focused on strengthening CENTUM VP's security functions to protect against cyber threats and on enhancing support of the HART communication protocol. A batch management package with reconfigured operation screens is also provided to improve the productivity of batch processes for manufacturing a variety of products in variable amounts: an approach that has mainly been adopted by the chemical, pharmaceutical, and food industries.
In support of its customers' long-term efforts to develop their businesses, Yokogawa will continue to improve its products.
CENTUM VP R4.03 features great new security enhancements. Since an increasing number of general-purpose PCs and network devices are being incorporated in production control systems, it has become more important to have cyber-security measures in place that will protect these systems against computer viruses and the like. For CENTUM VP, which makes use of PCs and network devices in its human machine interface (HMI) and other components, Yokogawa has made changes to its security setting function and taken other measures that enhance security.
A new function has also been added that co-ordinates modifications to user accounts with an information technology (IT) management system. This makes it easier to modify and delete a user account when an operator is transferred or retired, thereby reducing the risk of access from an unauthorised account.
In addition; there are enhancements to the batch management package The batch management package for CENTUM systems has been updated and released as VP Batch. The operation screens have been reconfigured to improve ease of use.
HART communication support for legacy CENTUM systems New I/O modules and signal conditioner cards that support the HART communication protocol have been added, and are compatible with legacy CENTUM systems such as CENTUM-XL and Micro XL. When a CENTUM user migrates to CENTUM VP, HART devices can be introduced at minimum cost by utilising existing wiring.
Principle markets for CENTUM VP systems are process control and monitoring of plants in industries such as oil and gas, petrochemicals, chemicals, electric power, pulp and paper, pharmaceuticals, foods and beverages, iron and steel, and water supply and sewage treatment. Applications include control and monitoring of plants and production equipment.
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A New Generation VOC Monitor
Ionicon (Austria) launches the new PTR-QMS-300 mobile VOC monitor to the analytics and industrial process monitoring market.
Succeeding the IONICON Compact PTR-MS that has been produced since 2003, the new PTR-QMS 300 is a small and lightweight PTR-MS for research or process monitoring applications with a remarkable detection limit of < 0,3 ppbv.
The PTR-QMS 300 is engineered as a very affordable, user- and maintenance-friendly, lean and innovative bench top set-up that focuses on industrial applications. It features a touchscreen display allowing for one-button control of the system and even preconfigured analysis tasks in combination with an optional embedded industrial computer and individualised software packages.
We provide flexible inlet solutions such as the integrated multi- position capability and the possibility to optionally upgrade the PTR-QMS 300 with multiplexing and data interface units thus bringing down the costs per sampling point and simplifying the integration in existing monitoring network infrastructure.
For research or laboratory use the PTR-QMS 300 is available as a fully functional entry-level PTR-MS instrument, being operated using the comprehensive Ionicon PTR-QMS series software suite, available on an external notebook computer.
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