Emerson Process Management

Fisher VBL booster
The compact, lightweight Fisher VBL booster is designed for applications in which a valve positioner alone cannot provide the stroking speed needed to meet rapidly changing process conditions and demands. The booster enables fast valve response in the face of rapid input-signal changes. It incorporates a variety of features that work in tandem — fixed deadband, internal soft seats that produce tight shutoff (to reduce unnecessary air consumption and eliminate positioner delays), and an internal bypass restriction that enables fast actuator response. Maximum input signal pressure is 10.3 bar (150 psig), and the input-to-output ratio is fixed at 1:1.

Micro Motion F-Series compact Coriolis meters
The Micro Motion F-Series compact Coriolis meters are now available with additional digital protocols and Smart Meter Verification, an easy-to-use tool that monitors the structural and measurement integrity of the meter. These new capabilities are enabled by connectivity to the enhanced core processor and 2400S transmitter, both powered by Micro Motion MVD (multivariable digital) processing technology, which provides faster meter-response time. The 2400S transmitter option also enables DeviceNet and Profibus-DP communication protocols in an extremely compact package. The Micro Motion MVD technology uses advanced algorithms that provide meter stability and consistent performance in the face of challenging operating conditions.

AMS Machinery Manager Version 5.4
The latest release of the AMS Suite: Machinery Health Manager, AMS Machinery Manager Version 5.4 helps plant personnel to effectively identify and resolve vibration-related machinery problems through predictive diagnostics for many types of mechanical assets. The company’s CSI 9420 Wireless Vibration Transmitters provide accurate vibration monitoring (in terms of spectrum, waveform and trend vibration data) of motors, fans, pumps and other mechanical assets. This information allows users to more effectively manage the performance of rotating equipment through analysis of key machinery health trends and patterns. Data can be imported on demand or at regularly scheduled intervals, based on specific maintenance and equipment needs. The system also includes an Overall Vibration Index report. This system gives maintenance and operations personnel access to critical, real-time machinery data that allow them to identify and resolve machinery issues before process interruptions occur.

DeltaV S-series platform
The DeltaV S-series platform includes major enhancements to I/O processing, operator displays, asset management, batch capability, and security that reduce complexity and simplify and speed commissioning. I/O options include wireless, HART, analog input (AI), analog output (AO), digital input (DI), digital output (DO), digital processor (DP), or thermocouple (T/C), among others. The I/O devices can be placed in a rack room, a remote location, a hazardous area, a safety system, or a harsh environment. Users can choose traditional wired, wireless, bussed, or electronic marshalling. Electronic marshalling eliminates two-thirds of the wiring and connections needed by conventional marshalling cabinets. Single-channel CHARacterization ModuleS (CHARMS) relay I/O information to any DeltaV controller via an Ethernet connection, which eliminates the need for users to wire I/O to specific controller I/O cards. These benefits improve plant uptime, and make projects simpler and easier to engineer and implement.

Rosemount 8800D vortex flowmeter
The Rosemount 8800D vortex flowmeter enhances online vortex sensor maintainability while increasing safety for critical applications. Traditional vortex flowmeters need to be shut down to verify performance of the vortex sensor. The vortex sensor in the 8800D flowmeter is isolated from the process, so it can be maintained without shutting down the process. The flowmeter verifies the health of the transmitter by simulating the vortex flow signal.

9901 family of chambers
The 9901 family of high-quality chambers enables external mounting of level measurement and control instrumentation on process vessels. External mounting allows easy isolation of a particular instrument for routine maintenance or calibration, as well as for the fitting of instrumentation to vessels having internal structures. The units can also act as stilling chambers for liquid surfaces that are prone to turbulence. The chambers’ design is fully compliant with the European Union’s Pressure Equipment Directive (PED) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) B31.3 standard. They are available simply as chambers for use with existing instrumentation, as well as via an integrated bolt-on instrumentation solution from the manufacturer. Standard chamber selections include carbon steel or stainless steel, with diameters of 3 in. (80 mm) or 4 in. (100 mm). A wide choice of process, drain and vent connections is offered to minimize fitting costs.

Rosemount 3051SMV transmitter
The Rosemount 3051SMV transmitter improves productivity and energy management while enhancing environmental compliance. It measures three variables and provides mass and energy flow output, reducing the number of devices usually needed to make differential-pressure flow measurements from ten to one. It updates flow measurement 22 times per second, providing effective tracking of production, demand, and total usage of process gas, steam and natural gas. This results in more-accurate billing, as well as immediate detection of anomalies that lead to product loss. The transmitter can be scaled to optimize flow measurement in four different applications: full compensation (differential pressure, line pressure, and temperature measurement) for gas, natural gas or steam; differential and line pressure measurement for saturated steam; differential pressure and temperature measurement for liquids or saturated steam; and differential pressure measurement for liquids at stable temperatures. Configuration is simple — the user enters just three application parameters, and then the Engineering Assistant software handles the rest of the setup.

Fisher Control-Disk valve
The Fisher Control-Disk valve offers excellent throttling performance and is suitable for applications with varying pressure drops in the hydrocarbon, refining, chemical, pulp and paper, and metals and mining industries. Its wide control range is double that of typical butterfly valves, providing better adherence to the setpoint regardless of process disturbances, resulting in a reduction in process variability. The valve’s face-to-face and raised-face dimensions meet European Norm (EN) 593, American Petroleum Institute (API) 609, and Manufacturers Standardization Society (MSS) SP68 standards.

Micro Motion 7835 Series density meters
Micro Motion 7835 Series density meters reduce project and installation costs in hazardous areas because they require neither barriers nor galvanic isolators. They are certified as explosionproof and flameproof, making them suitable for custody-transfer and fiscal applications in the oil and gas industries; they can also be used for routine control applications in chemical and other processing industries. The units provide high-accuracy measurements and require little maintenance. Each meter includes a vibrating element that is manufactured from Ni-Span-C (an alloy of nickel, iron, titanium and chromium), which provides excellent long-term stability and a low temperature coefficient. Other wetted parts are made of Type 316L stainless steel.

Smart Wireless field starter kit
The Smart Wireless field starter kit uses standard WirelessHART technology to enhance user flexibility, delivering better than 99% communications reliability in the steel and concrete environment of most plants because the network self-organizes around obstacles, whether permanent (e.g., steel girders) or mobile (e.g., moving rail cars, vehicles). Its latest release includes discrete switches and vibration and pH transmitters, as well as all the features of earlier versions. The kit, which includes any combination of five or more wireless pressure, temperature, DP level, DP flow, vibration, or pH transmitters and switches, provides a secure, robust wireless gateway. Its AMS Suite of predictive maintenance software provides powerful diagnostic information from the wireless devices. Wireless SNAP-ON for AMS Suite simplifies field network design. Smart Start Services include a full network-health assessment to ensure robust communications, plus verification of device functionality and output to the user’s Modbus, object linking and embedding for process control (OPC), Ethernet or other communications systems.

AMS Suite Intelligent Device Manager 9.5
AMS Suite Intelligent Device Manager 9.5 helps engineers to plan and manage scalable wireless networks. The software provides a common interface for users to manage their wired and wireless instruments and valves. Wireless device configuration is streamlined and drag-and-drop functionality automates the writing of join keys into wireless devices, which increases both efficiency and security. The SNAP-ON application lets users plan, customize, visualize and manage smart networks by uploading an aerial image of the plant, instead of having to conduct in-depth site surveys and prepare blueprints. Also included is the MV Engineering Assistant SNAP-ON application, which enables configuration and test calculation functions on HART and Foundation fieldbus multivariable transmitters from Rosemount. AlertTrack allows users to group multiple devices and set parameters to receive customized alerts. It also provides increased visibility to the status of field devices and documentation of parameter changes to help identify equipment issues and areas for improvement. PlantWeb Services facilitate the integration of work processes with the asset management system.

X-STREAM process gas analyzers
X-STREAM process gas analyzers now incorporate the manufacturer’s IntrinzX intrinsically linear photometric technology to provide high-sensitivity, large dynamic ranges, and long-term span stability. IntrinzX uses split-cell dual-beam photometry and constant comparison of the reference signal and the measurement signal to achieve an intrinsically linear response to changes in concentration. This enables sensitivity as low as 0–10 ppm, span drift of less than 0.5% per week, and dynamic ranges as large as 0–200 to 0–50,000 ppm. The analyzers feature extended ambient temperature ranges for all geographic areas, and an alphanumeric display with clear text messages available in multiple languages. They use Rosemount Analytical infrared, ultraviolet and visible photometry, paramagnetic and electrochemical oxygen and thermal conductivity sensor technologies. Four available configurations include: the half-19-in.-rack-mountable or tabletop compact general version; the 19-in.-rack-mountable or tabletop compact general version; the field housing NEMA 4X/IP66 version that can be purged, pressurized or made non-incendive for installation in hazardous areas; and the flameproof version that can be installed in Class I, Zone 1, Group IIB and H2 hazardous areas.

Model 1056-HT (HART) and Model 1056-DP (Profibus) analyzers
Two new dual-input versions of the Rosemount Model 1056 analyzer, the Model 1056-HT (HART) and Model 1056-DP (Profibus), make increased use of centralized monitoring and control, sensor diagnostics, and other advanced digital capabilities. The HART-enabled analyzer allows remote calibration, continuous monitoring of four live process variables, and configuration from the manufacturer’s AMS Suite or DeltaV host applications, a legacy DCS, or a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system. Included diagnostics tools allow plants to estimate the life of in-process sensors and perform required maintenance on a timely basis. This multi-parameter instrument allows any combination of single or dual inputs of pH/ORP/ISE (pH, oxidation-reduction potential, ion-selective electrode), resistivity/conductivity, percent concentration, chlorine, oxygen, ozone, temperature, turbidity, pulse flow, and 4–20-mA current input. 

Micro Motion Elite Coriolis meters
Micro Motion Elite Coriolis meters are now offered with a nickel-alloy C-22 construction option and a high-pressure option. Model CMF400 is suitable for 4-in. to 6-in. line sizes with a maximum flowrate to 20,000 lb/m. The high-pressure CMF400P version is now pressure-rated to 2,973 psi, making it suitable for ethylene, natural gas, refining and petrochemical applications where accurate and reliable measurements, taken under high-pressure conditions, are critical. The new nickel-alloy C-22 construction of the CMF400H version makes it suitable for applications where the process fluid is harsh and incompatible with stainless steel, such as sour crude handling, well-product and some corrosive refining applications. These devices deliver ±0.05% mass and volume flow accuracy over a 20:1 turndown, and up to ±0.0002 g/cc density accuracy.

Delta V controller and firewall system
Having passed Achilles Level 1 Certification Testing, the DeltaV controller and firewall system meets the cyber-security needs of industrial automation controllers by protecting the implementation of common protocols such as Ethernet, ARP, IP, ICMP and UPD. Separating control systems from non-control systems, DeltaV operates as a private network and features both anti-virus protection and role-based user security. Installation of the system ensures that the controller can survive most security incidents, which  allows users to better plan security updates around process activities rather than the converse.

ROC800-Series Remote Operations Controller
Featuring native communications capability for integration of wireless field networks, the ROC800-Series Remote Operations Controller enables oil-and-gas operators to improve asset predictability, manage remote assets more profitably, improve maintenance efficiency, and deliver cost reductions in asset construction time. Secure and robust, these units communicate with instrumentation at wellheads, pipelines, and other remote sites. Helping users improve safety and minimizing risk of dangerous environments, the controllers can communicate directly with any mix of up to 30 wireless temperature or pressure transmitters over a self-organizing mesh field network. Replacing costly and sometimes difficult-to-install wiring, this has significant cost benefits when used for monitoring process variables that may be located up to 200 m from the remote terminal unit. Smart Wireless monitoring points enable up to 90% installed cost reduction as compared to wired installations. Its predictive intelligence increases process availability, and eliminates unnecessary field trips for data retrieval, configuration changes and asset profiling. Through enabling online monitoring with deep-dive diagnostics and notification of potential problems, the system helps users prevent unplanned downtime.

Models F025, F050 and F100 high-temperature flowmeters
Rounding out the Micro Motion F-Series family of high-temperature flowmeters are the Models F025, F050 and F100. They are available in Type 316L stainless steel in sizes from 1/4 in. to 4 in., or in Hastelloy C-22 up to 3 in. All are rated to 350°C. The flowmeters’ electronics are attached at the end of a flexible conduit, away from the heat of the sensor, so the user can choose any transmitter option for integral mounting.

CSI 2130 Machine Health Collector
A portable, route-based vibration-data collection device, the CSI 2130 Machine Health Collector features high-speed, single-channel collection, a full-color backlit VGA display, and a lightweight but rugged design. PeakVue processing utilizes digital technology to detect stress waves on the spot as an early sign of bearing or gear wear, and indicates the severity of a fault, enabling technicians to call for immediate maintenance if needed. Information recorded from each machine in the field can be uploaded to the AMS Suite: Machinery Health Manager, which trained analysts can use to spot any changes in the vibration pattern of a motor-pump combination, induction fan, or other rotating equipment as a sign of deterioration and an indication that corrective action should be taken.

In-plant Smart Wireless solutions
 Carefully leading the way to a wireless manufacturing environment, this company has introduced In-plant Smart Wireless solutions. Extensions of the company’s PlantWeb digital plant architecture, these solutions combine wireless network technology and gateways with wireless-enabled measurement transmitters and wireless predictive maintenance software, and seamlessly integrate them with automation systems, or legacy hosts. Incremental information gained from the use of Smart Wireless solutions helps customers understand their processes and identify opportunities for improvement. The data can improve response time to safety incidents, minimize emissions, and help protect the environment. The company reports its trial wireless customers have experienced 99.9 % network reliability, industrial-strength security, long battery life, and as much as a 90% reduction in installed cost.

“Pressure Regulator Literature & Utility Programs”
“Pressure Regulator Literature & Utility Programs” is an updatable CD that contains more than 1,000 pages of regulator information with details for specific products, including engineering data, specifications, features, application maps and quick selection guides. An Update Wizard keeps all new or revised pdf-formatted bulletins, instruction manuals, fliers, brochures, and schematics up to date with the latest information. The CD also includes monitor sizing to allow users to size an application, a conversion calculator to convert common units of measurement to and from standard and metric units, and a regulator-selection wizard to assist users with choosing the correct regulator for a particular application.

X-STREAM analyzers
X-STREAM analyzers offer single- and dual-channel analysis using infrared, ultraviolet and visible (NDIR/UV/VIS) detectors, with paramagnetic and electrochemical oxygen senors, and thermal conductivity sensors. Three configurations are available: a rack-mounted or tabletop general-purpose model; a flameproof/explosionproof model (pictured) in a wall-mountable NEMA 4X/IP66 painted cast aluminum housing suitable for Class I, Zone 1, Group IIB + H2 hazardous areas; and a field-housing model in a NEMA 4X/IP66 painted stainless steel housing. The analyzers can measure one or two components in any combination. Optional thermostatic control enables the measurement of lower sample gas concentrations and higher dew points. A purge can be added to protect the electronics and provide operator safety when handling corrosive and toxic gases.

Fisher Type SR5 sanitary pressure regulators and Type SR8 sanitary back-pressure regulators
The Fisher Type SR5 sanitary pressure regulators and Type SR8 sanitary back-pressure regulators have expanded to include 2–in. and 3-in. models. In addition to the size expansion, a new PEEK soft seat material has been added. The new material provides ANSI Class VI shutoff in higher-temperature applications (up to 400ºF) and is FDA approved. USP Class VI grades are also available. Furthermore, a 75–125-psig spring size has been added to the SR8 line for 1/2-in. to 1-1/2-in. regulators, raising the maximum setpoint for these products from 100 to 125 psig. The Type SR5 and Type SR8 are designed for optimal performance in water-for-injection (WFI) and continuous clean-steam applications, which include clean-in-place (CIP) and sanitize-in-place (SIP) systems.

SCU multi-controller
Compatible with existing HART-compliant 2-wire or 4-wire units, the SCU multi-controller enables operators to view data from, and program, up to 15 ultrasonic level transmitters (ULTs) from a central control room. The SCU has an integrated LCD panel that accommodates a wide variety of display functions, including tank content visualization using echo analysis of the ULT. Output options include 4–20 mA and relays that are programmed via a six-button keypad in an IP65 enclosure.

Micro Motion F-Series compact Coriolis meters
The Micro Motion F-Series compact Coriolis meters are now rated to 5,000 psi, offering customers flow and density measurement in demanding, high-pressure environments at flowrates up to 300 lb/min. When combined with Micro Motion MVD Technology, the F-Series meters deliver mass flow accuracy up to ±0.1% and volume flow accuracy up to ±0.15% when measuring liquids. On liquid density, the meters are accurate up to ±0.001 g/cm3.

DeltaV Analyze
DeltaV Analyze software can improve operator effectiveness by assessing unusual alarm, event and operator activity. Unlike other limited alarm-management approaches, DeltaV Analyze identifies these unusual occurrences, trends in plant alarms, control modules responsible for those alarms, and delivers information on structured web pages for rapid, easy access. DeltaV Analyze examines data from the plant Event Chronicle or Plant-Wide Event historian. It highlights the most frequent alarms and the control modules responsible for those alarms. The Overview display of this software provides a quick display of how alarms, events and user actions are trending month to month. Viewing this screen may be enough to determine if the production facility is operating at acceptable limits. More detailed information can be gathered by focusing in on an area, time period or event type. Information can be incorporated into other common desktop applications like Excel and Outlook.

375 Field Communicator
The 375 Field Communicator now supports 82 additional FOUNDATION fieldbus devices and 50 more HART instruments. The device is already compatible with more than 800 HART and fieldbus instruments from a variety of manufacturers. Replacing the 275 HART Communicator, this convenient portable tool is used to increase maintenance productivity and effectiveness by supplementing networked stations that access advanced online diagnostics. The 375 intrinsically safe, ATEX-compliant portable communicator rugged and reliable, meeting the demands of production environments. It is integrated with Emerson’s AMS Suite: Intelligent Device Manager, an online asset-management application that accesses diagnostic information generated by smart field devices. Instrument data collected in the field using the 375 can be uploaded to the permanent database of the AMS Device Manager. As new field devices become available, their descriptions, which are used to establish communications, can be downloaded from the Internet to the 375.

Rosemount 5400
The Rosemount 5400 is touted as the first radar transmitter to offer peak performance in all three areas vital to radar level measurement: Echosensitivity — the ability to detect weak radar echoes reliably; Echodynamics — the ability to handle weak and strong radar echoes simultaneously; and Echologics — the ability to ignore false echoes. Two models are available — the Rosemount 5401, low-frequency transmitter (~ 6 GHz), which is used in applications with turbulence, heavy vapors, foam or where there is a risk for deposits on the antenna and the Rosemount 5402, high-frequency transmitter (~ 26 GHz), which utilizes a narrower radar beam for installations that have tall or narrow nozzles, where the nozzle is close to the tank wall, or to avoid disturbing objects in the tank.