All Control & Instrumentation

Goodbye to one man and his dog
Added: 12 Jun 2012
?The process plant of the future will be controlled by just one man and a dog: the man to feed the …

Workings behind inexpensive catalyst revealed
Added: 12 Jun 2012
A newly developed carbon nanotube material could help lower the cost of fuel cells, catalytic conve…

Emerson adds technology to improve safety of rotating machinery
Added: 12 Jun 2012
Dusseldorf, Germany – Overspeeds on rotating equipment, such as turbines, compressors, and pumps, o…

Walder returns to Rockwell Automation
Added: 12 Jun 2012
London – Rockwell Automation has appointed Martin Walder to lead its ‘industry focused’ teams in; o…

Rotork for UAE petroleum storage project
Added: 11 Jun 2012
Fujairah, UAE – Rotork electric and electro-hydraulic valve actuation and control technologies have…

Food & drinks sector must address energy challenges
Added: 7 Jun 2012
Article by Chris Evans, marketing & operations group manager of Mitsubishi Electric UK:
Many custome…

World’s first X-ray machine capable of studying liquid surfaces
Added: 7 Jun 2012
A new liquid X-ray machine could significantly improve the performance catalysts

Biosensor detects one-billionth of a gram in minutes
Added: 1 Jun 2012
A new class of biosensor can detect exceptionally small traces of contaminants in liquids in 40 mi…

South East Water adds pressure management technology to tackle leaks
Added: 28 May 2012
London – With temporary water use restrictions now in place to protect water supplies, South East W…

ABB adds major drive-systems order in Kazakhstan
Added: 25 May 2012
London – ABB has won a $44-million order to deliver three gearless mill drive systems (GMDs) for a …

Blow to energy costs at Anglian Water
Added: 25 May 2012
London – Anglian Water has selected Atlas Copco’s low-pressure ZS blowers to supply air to the aer…

Emerson subsea instrumentation for Norway-UK tie-back
Added: 25 May 2012
London – Aker Solutions has awarded Emerson a multi-million dollar contact to deliver its Roxar sub…

Camera replaces 'sniffers' at Borealis polymer plant
Added: 25 May 2012
Stenungsund, Sweden – Borealis is using an optical gas imaging camera to detect potentially dangero…

Subsea 7 enhances incident-response capabilities
Added: 24 May 2012
London – Subsea 7 offers seabed-to-surface engineering, construction and support services to the of…

Valero to use Invensys HF monitoring technology
Added: 23 May 2012
London – Invensys Operations Management, has signed a multi-year licensing agreement with Valero En…

Tata Steel plant knocks £10k off its energy bill
Added: 21 May 2012
Stocksbridge, UK – Tata Steel has reduced energy bills on the finishing process at its steel plant …

New B. Braun plant to feature advanced process technologies
Added: 17 May 2012
Melsungen, Germany – Pharmaceutical and medicals supplier B. Braun Melsungen AG’s new Euro164-milli…

UK team advances measurement of gas bubbles in pipelines.
Added: 17 May 2012
Southampton, UK – Researchers at the University of Southampton has devised a new method to more acc…

Crumbs problem solved at last
Added: 14 May 2012
London – A process that has reportedly defied automation for decades has been resolved by systems i…

Honeywell launches enterprise-wide software for process sector
Added: 9 May 2012
Bracknell, UK – Honeywell has launched Intuition Executive software, which comprises enterprise-wid…