Written By TechStar Solutions Specialist, Josh Longcor

Lift stations are collection facilities designed to move wastewater from lower to higher elevation through pipe systems, particularly where elevation changes are not able to provide gravity flow or where excavation and sewer construction costs are high. These collection stations are automated because there is no regular onsite personnel present to ensure their operation. They use electrical, mechanical and control equipment to ensure reliable operation and require intermittent inspection to ensure they function properly and are not nearing a potential failure.

Written By TechStar Solutions Specialist, Don Wyatt

Do you have Fired Heaters, High Performance Furnaces, Incinerators, Selective Catalytic Reduction Units (SCRs), Flare Lines, Tanks to blanket, Reactors to monitor, Marine Terminals for loading or unloading ships and barges?  If so, then you probably either have online gas analyzers or need them.  Many people that own these assets really don’t like online process analyzers or don’t like what it take to keep them running.  Traditionally these analyzers have been more complex then most of the instrumentation that is used in our industry.  This leads to performance less than the user would expect.  

Measuring the flow of a fluid or gas is essential to many industrial processes. Many technologies exist to measure flow including Electromagnetic, Ultrasonic, Turbine, Vortex, Positive Displacement, Coriolis, and Thermal Mass flow meters. The ability to monitor the flow rate and flow totals from various flow meters wirelessly enables users to avoid costly conduit runs from the point of the flow measurement back to a central controller.

Interactive training that is specific to your company’s process is always preferred but interrupting production to test your new knowledge is probably not an option. This is where the newest addition to our Training & Development Solutions, The Functional Verification Unit – THE UNIT, comes into play. 

Industrial compressors are often used in large chemical plants to supply headers with air for pneumatic instruments and valves. These compressors have to run at precise speeds.  If they start to run too fast they can become very dangerous and expensive to repair.  

No matter your industry, an accurate flow measurement has a significant impact on safety, environmental protection/compliance and your bottom line. With so many moving parts within your process, it can be a challenge to keep up with flow rate over long periods of time.

Learn how a municipality conducted a flow survey to retrieve wastewater flow data without having to entering manholes.

The SignalFire Ranger have announced several new improvements to the user interface that went in to effect on April 7^th. It simply requires you to close your browser and re-open it for the new look and feel to become active.

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COVID-19 Response: A Message from the Office of the Pale Goat

In these difficult times I would like to share TechStar’s coordinated response and commitment. TechStar remains open and fully operational. As your partner and supplier of process control and industrial automation solutions, we realize that it is our responsibility to support your essential business. We are available and ready to assist you onsite or remotely 24/7/365.