FCI Featured Articles

  1. Level Switch Detects Oil And Nitrogen Interface To Support Effective PIG System Operation 12/1/2017

    A major oil producer in Alaska’s North Slope region operates miles of transit pipeline as part of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) within the U.S. National Petroleum Reserve – Alaska.

  2. Lab Gas Sub-Metering Accuracy Improves With Thermal Flow Meters To Save Money 12/1/2017

    Facility administrators will find the advanced ST100 Series Thermal Mass Air/Gas Flow Meter from Fluid Components International (FCI) helps them improve the accuracy of specialty gas point of use and sub-metering operations to achieve accurate billing in their labs for better cost tracking and control.

  3. Precision Air/Gas Flow Measurement Helps Turn Landfills Into Green Electric Power Generators 12/1/2017

    A leading supplier of landfill gas extraction and recovery systems located in the Midwest region of the US relies on flow meters from Fluid Components International (FCI) for gas flow measurements in landfills. The company has developed hundreds of landfill gas system flares and extraction system skids that are in operation worldwide, which all require accurate gas flow measurement.

  4. Importance Of Flare Gas Measurement Grows To Meet Environmental Regulations 12/1/2017

    In the oil and gas industry, regulations and requirements to measure, monitor and report flared gases continue to expand and extend. The U.S. EPA continues to focus on enhancing regulations aimed at reducing emissions of methane and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) into the environment.

  5. Improving Flow Measurement Accuracy With Flow Conditioners 12/1/2017

    To reduce plant operating costs, a simple and less expensive solution is to measure liquid and gas flow more accurately. Continuous improvement of flow measurement and control can trim overall production costs.

  6. Keep Your Pumps Running Smoothly To Optimize Process Efficiency 12/1/2017

    Industrial pumps consume up to 20% of the world’s energy production and can be responsible for 25 to 50% of a process plant’s energy bill, according to Europump, the Hydraulic Institute and other sources. Nothing moves without them in a process plant, and they are expensive to purchase, maintain and even more to repair or replace. Reducing pump lifecycle costs (their purchase, operation and maintenance) is critical in a process plant optimizing efficiency and product output. The process and the surrounding equipment configuration can be responsible for unnecessary high pump lifecycle costs.

  7. Innovative New Air / Gas Thermal Flow Meter Changes The Rules 12/1/2017

    The decisions and ROI calculations get even more complex when plant staff and their engineering partners are constrained by or must factor in obsolescence should the plant want to consider upgrading their process systems’ communication method. 

  8. Digester Biogas Flow Monitoring 12/1/2017

    A wastewater treatment plant needed to measure biogas traveling into and out of a gas line leading into a Digester Dystor gas bag. The amount of gas and direction of flow is critical for measurements to meet EPA regulations. 

  9. Ten Fluid Measurement Plant Imperatives That Increase Process Efficiency And Reduce Costs 1/9/2017

    Plant upgrade or maintenance projects that focus continuous improvement in and automation of flow and level measurement will improve plant productivity and lower overall production and maintenance cost.

  10. Fluid Components International: Capabilities Overview 4/7/2016

    Knowing the fluid levels and the flow rates at which liquids and gases are traveling through pipes are measurements critical to industry. FCI Instrumentation combines precision sensors with ruggedized electronics designed to provide accurate, highly repeatable flow and level measurement solutions for these industrial process applications.