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Welcome to the March issue of Instrumentation Monthly.
Nominations for the 2025 Instrumentation & Electronics Awards
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April. Make sure your company or product is in with a chance of winning by making your nomination now. To help you compose the perfect nomination, judge Richard Warrilow has produced a guide. Find out more on page 10.
Victoria White, Editor D I DEMYSTIFYING EMC UK 2025
emystifying EMC, hosted by Rohde & Schwarz, returns to the Silverstone confer- ence venue in Northamptonshire, UK for 2025. This year, the popular event focused on electromagnetic compatibility, covering aspects including legislation, test techniques, and design knowl- edge, takes place on Wednesday 2 April 2025. Lee Hill of Silent Solutions will start the day looking at a troubleshooting project to make a coffee machine produce less radiated emissions, and create a better user experience in an interactive session titled: Would You Like Some EMI With Your Coffee? The day will continue with three separate streams that allows attendees to configure their day choosing from a wide range of subjects. “Demystifying EMC returns to deliver more each year as a learning experience, workshop, networking opportunity, and exhibition. As the industry develops so does the content, topics and program, to stay
up-to-date, relevant and informative,” said Nathan Reeve, EMC Product Specialist at Rohde & Schwarz UK. “All attending are assured of a warm welcome as the community around this event continues to grow.” Demystifying EMC takes place from 9.00 to 4.30, 2 April 2025, at Silverstone Circuit, NN12 8TN. For more information and to register, please visit
www.rohde-schwarz.com/DEMC.
Rohde & Schwarz
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ABB REPORTS MAJOR DEMAND INCREASE FOR NATURAL GAS DETECTION SOLUTION
n 2024, ABB saw significant increase in the demand for its trusted Mobi- leGuard natural gas leak detection solution compared to the previous year. As oil and gas companies and natural gas utilities in Europe and North America look for ways to comply with environmental regulations and make their infrastructure safer and more resilient, detecting and measuring natural gas leaks has become vital.
In August 2024, the EU Methane Regulation kicked into force making it manda- tory for operators of energy infrastructure in Europe to regularly measure methane emissions and eliminate gas leaks fast. As natural gas is primarily composed of methane, leakages from natural gas pipelines are important to contain. At the same time, extreme weather events such as hurricanes and torna- does have become more common due to the impact of climate change, making it imperative for energy companies such as in North America to find more reliable ways to inspect energy infrastructure quickly and economically. There are more than 1.1 million km of pipelines in the world – enough to circle the Earth 30 times. These pipelines are typically buried underground, making it difficult to detect unwanted leaks of methane, which is invisible, odorless, and does not leave a smoke trail.
“The effective detection of leaks and measurement of emissions around natural gas pipelines is vital for our energy customers for ensuring compli- ance and safety of infrastructure but traditional methods are slow and lacking the accuracy and sensitivity required,” said Jason Ghiraldini, global poduct manager, Natural Gas Leak Detection, ABB Measurement & Analytics. “There has been a long-term commitment from ABB to the development of multiple innovative emissions monitoring and gas leak technologies that help our customers perform optimally.”
The vehicle-mounted, laser-based MobileGuard has sensitivity over 1,000 times higher than conventional technologies and is 10 times faster than traditional equipment in detecting single parts per billion (ppb) of methane and ethane. It measures methane and ethane concentrations simultaneously several times per second, using OA-ICOS technology (off-axis integrated cavity output spectroscopy), which works by using a tunable laser source that produces light at a selected wavelength for interacting with the gases.
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MobileGuard is part of ABB’s portfolio of gas leak detection solutions that are designed to operate autonomously or in combination. Drone-based HoverGuard detects and quantifies methane leaks in hard-to-reach assets and landfills, while the portable MicroGuard is used for conducting surveys on foot to quickly pinpoint leak source locations. The portfolio combines high performance laser-based measurement technology with advanced data anal- ysis software to provide customers with the most comprehensive, effective and efficient methods for finding, quantifying, and fixing gas leaks. Analyzers based on ABB’s OA-ICOSTM have also been used by researchers worldwide for over twenty years to record trace gas concen- trations from the Arctic to the Amazon for scientific purposes requiring the highest accuracy.
ABB
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