FCI Featured Articles

  1. Best Practices: Safety And Certainty With Actual Gas Calibration Of Thermal Mass Flow Meters 1/8/2020

    Flow meters can be built with the highest safety ratings, features and functions, and the most industrially robust sensor technology, but if the calibration is inaccurate or subject to uncertainty then the device could produce unsatisfactory performance issues.

  2. Flow Meter Helps Refinery Optimize Boiler Air Feed For Sulfur Recovery Units 12/20/2019

    Sulfur is present in various forms during the production and refining of hydrocarbon fuels (crude oil), including sulfur dioxide (SO2) gas and hydrogen sulfide gas (H2S). The sulfur found in crude oil products is toxic and presents a serious hazard to workers, equipment and facilities.

  3. Thermal Flow Meter Improves Digester Gas System Fueling Boilers For Plant Steam And Hot Water 12/19/2019

    Accurate, repeatable air/gas flow measurement under harsh outdoor conditions is essential to successful wastewater treatment operations when used in aeration or digester biogas applications. The challenge is that a relatively small number of flow meter technologies are capable of reliable measurement.

  4. ST80 Series Thermal Mass Flow Meters Brochure 8/1/2019

    ST80 flow meters combine proprietary equal mass thermal dispersion flow sensing elements, precision electronics, and exacting fluid calibrations, all packaged within rugged, industrial enclosures. The ST80 Series delivers a superior air/gas flow measurement solution that continuously meets performance specifications in the most demanding process and plant applications with virtually no scheduled maintenance.

  5. Reliable Thermal Switch Ensures Safe Operation Of Loading Arms At Marine Terminal To Prevent Spills 6/26/2019

    A leading European-based marine terminal operator with locations on every major continent is responsible for the managing, handling, storing and distribution of large quantities of oil and gas, as well as refined petrochemicals, which serve industries and consumers around the globe. The company’s thousands of employees are highly trained and are focused on the safe, reliable and efficient storage of large quantities of bulk products at each of its locations.

  6. Aeration Air Flow On PROFIBUS Communications-Based DCS In Wastewater Treatment Plant 6/24/2019

    A major municipal wastewater treatment plant in Scandinavia was incrementally upgrading and converting the plant’s control system from a traditional analog-based system (e.g. 4-20 mA) to PROFIBUS-based digital bus communications. The plant was very successful using, and has installed, FCI constant power technology thermal flow meters, Models AF88 and ST98, in the aeration lines for many years. Can FCI help them convert and upgrade the aeration flow control to PROFIBUS utilizing the same constant power technology thermal flow meters?

  7. Chlorine Gas Flow Meter In Chlorinator System 6/23/2019

    Chlorinators are a frequently used system for water disinfection in municipal and industrial water treatment processes.  
     

  8. Optimizing Wastewater Treatment Plant Aeration System Air Flow Measurement 6/22/2019

    The air flow into the aeration basins at a major wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) located in Northeastern USA were continuously running at maximum flow resulting in significant, and excessive, energy cost and excess wear and tear on the aeration blowers.

  9. Sewage Lift Station Pumping System 6/20/2019

    Lack of sufficient straight pipe run made it impossible to successfully apply the preferred magnetic flow meter (magmeter) to accurately measure the flow of raw sewage.

  10. Avoiding The High Costs Of Aeration Inefficiency 4/30/2019

    Knowing that aeration requirements consume 50 to 60 percent of a wastewater treatment plant's (WWTP) energy bill is one thing. Knowing exactly how and when to tweak aeration output to optimize activated sludge process efficiency with minimal energy waste is an entirely different story.