What is a chart recorder?

A chart recorder is an instrument that records electrical and process signals. Traditionally, chart records are built of a piece of paper and a pen that creates marks in response to a signal. 

What happens in online technical training?

In online technical training, students can watch live or recorded talks that cover in-depth analysis of applications, solutions, and the overall process industry. Online technical training can also include interactive sessions where students can ask questions and participate in discussions in real time. 

What is THE UNIT?

 THE UNIT is a training and development solution that provides application-specific hands-on experience. The Functional Verification Unit is a training facility site for companies to conduct process-specific, interactive training without interrupting in-house production. At THE UNIT, TechStar offers customizable technical training resources to mimic your specific process conditions, testing, and troubleshooting. The controlled environment is ideal for small group sessions to onboard new personnel, train team members for specific products, and conduct mandatory recertification to maintain compliance. Check out this video to see the fully functional live unit, innovative level solutions, reliable flow measurement, process automation, custom cabinets and enclosures, technical courses, custom sessions, hands-on training, engaging classroom instruction, a full range of instruments and devices, and more.

Now onboard the International Space Station (ISS), MSA Safety's combustible gas sensors are part of NASA's Advanced Hydrogen Sensor Technology Demonstration. The system is testing new ways to keep astronauts safe by detecting hydrogen, a highly flammable gas.

Providing necessary training for workers is one way for organizations to ensure their employees can appropriately perform their jobs to an organization’s standards. While technical training is needed across a broad range of industries, from software engineering to accounting to marketing, in this article, we’ll be looking at hands-on training for process, instrumentation, and controls. Training in these industries requires hands-on training because workers are using highly specialized machines and equipment. 

How Big Data Analytics is Used in Oil and Gas Refineries

 Big data analytics is transforming the oil and gas refinery industry. Oil and gas refineries generate large amounts of data that include equipment insights, maintenance reports, performance measurements, and more. Those monumental volumes of data must be processed and analyzed in order to deliver value. While refineries have been using organizational and analytical tools for a very long time, big data oil and gas offers innovative solutions that can make the industry more efficient and profitable. In light of volatile changes in supply and demand, oil and gas big data analytics can help companies improve their operations and sustain a competitive advantage. For refineries, big data analytics can enhance and improve the process control systems, manufacturing processes, emergency shutdown systems, equipment interfaces, laboratory information system, online analyzers, asset management systems, and more.

The biggest challenge in air flow monitoring applications are obstructions causing turbulent or irregular airflow profiles in the desired straight run section. Most air flow measuring devices are adversely affected by an underdeveloped flow profile. Ideally, more straight run is added in to the length of duct or pipe where an air flow measurement device is needed to achieve the best accuracy.

In chemistry, chromatography is a laboratory technique for separating a mixture into its constituents, either for analysis or preparative purification. During the mobile phase, the compound is dissolved in a gas. The solvent transports the mixture through a system and onto a material referred to as the stationary phase. The components of the mixture move between the mobile and stationary phases at different velocities, and this causes the components to separate.

Data acquisition (DAQ) is the process of creating digital numeric values from real world sampling signals. In DAQ, physical conditions are converted into data that can be manipulated by a computer. DAQ solutions are comprised of a sensor, a signal conditioner, and an analog-to-digital converter. Sensors, often referred to as transducers, collect real-world information like temperature, pressure, flow, level, acceleration, pH, humidity, movement, force and more. A signal conditioner is responsible for executing actions on the signal to prepare it for the converter. The analog-to-digital converter renders the information useful by a computer. The DAQ process is often used for complex experiments and requires sophisticated software solutions.

If you work in the natural gas industry or are an industrial user of natural gas, water dewpoint is not only a quality measurement but also a big concern. Water condensate presents serious challenges and issues for your process. It is highly corrosive and will form hydrates, which are ice-like solid molecules that can block the flow of gas in pipelines. In cold weather, it will also freeze reducing the pipe pressure.