He also credited the SSA with reducing human error. ABB foresees greater opportunity for the SSA system in the United States as deregulation forces utilities to improve plant output and availability. Built-In Flow Conditioning Offshore oil platforms leave little space for the upstream or downstream piping required to condition flow before it passes through conventional venturi or orifice plate flowmeters. McCrometer in Hemet, Calif., designed its V-Cone flowmeter to serve as its own flow conditioner without additional piping, proving a perfect fit on offshore rigs in Europe and the Gulf of Mexico. At the heart of the McCrometer flowmeter is a V-shaped cone that fully mixes, conditions, and profiles the flow before measuring pressure fields that represent the rate.
Low amplitude translates into a signal from the V-Cone that is highly stable.
Maersk Oil in Copenhagen, Denmark, will be installing 25 V-Cone flowmeters on three North Sea oil projects through this October. Elsag Bailey Process Automation N.V. The DCI System Six was specifically designed to improve batch and continuous processes. Each screen contains its own dedicated minialarm and configuration windows. Under the terms of S.C. 749, one of the city's most recent projects, Bailey engineers will supply the DCI System Six control systems, magnetic flowmeters, flow tubes, transmitters, and analyzers to upgrade the Back River Plant's activated-sludge process. Improving the airflow to the reactor tanks will reduce costs and raise plant effluent quality.