Tank Gauging System utilizes wireless technology.
Press Release Summary:
Installed without new long distance signal wiring, Rosemount® Raptor with Smart Wireless technology enhances tank farm automation. Tank gauging systems feature components that include radar gauges that use self-configuring, 2-wire, high-speed FOUNDATION™ fieldbus technology. Wirelessly connecting tank farm to control room, system forms network of digital intelligence that improves inventory management, loss control, overfill avoidance, and maintenance efficiency throughout plant.
Original Press Release:
Emerson Integrates Rosemount® Raptor Tank Gauging System with Smart Wireless Technology to Expand Tank Farm Automation
Elimination of trenching and long-distance cabling reduces material and labor costs, as well as engineering and project execution time
AUSTIN, TEXAS - Tank farm automation is now easier, faster and less costly with the integration of Emerson Process Management’s Rosemount® Raptor tank gauging systems and Smart Wireless technology. System installation costs can be reduced up to 50% by wirelessly connecting the tank farm to the control room, with the added benefit of reducing implementation time as much as 60%. The savings free up budget for expanded automation of tank farms.
The Raptor system with Smart Wireless technology features a complete line of Emerson’s new state-of-the-art Rosemount® tank gauging components, including high precision radar gauges that use self-configuring, 2-wire, high speed FOUNDATION™ fieldbus technology. The combined communications technologies enable use of a wide range of standardized equipment. The resulting Raptor system forms a network of digital intelligence that improves inventory management, loss control, overfill avoidance, and maintenance efficiency throughout the plant.
Many tank storage facilities that could benefit from modern, non-contact gauging currently use obsolete signal wiring, or are not connected from the tank storage area. Retrofitting an obsolete gauging system is expensive and time consuming because the distance between storage tanks and the control room can be more than one kilometer, requiring extensive trenching and cabling.
As a result of budget restrictions, some plants continue to experience maintenance problems caused by communications limitations and low performing mechanical tank gauges and instruments. Now, with Smart Wireless technology, a new radar-based Raptor system can be installed without new long distance signal wiring. This will radically reduce material and labor costs, as well as engineering and project execution time.
"The wireless-empowered tank gauging systems are effective in new installations or for upgrading existing sites," commented Mikael Inglund, Technical Product Manager, Emerson Process Management. "Our customers struggle with costs of replacing aged wiring, obsolete measurement instruments, and proprietary gauging systems. Our wireless Raptor systems give them the flexibility and freedom to implement an effective modernization strategy. They can be changed out and wirelessly integrate new gauging systems one tank at a time. Most upgrades are done without taking the tank farm out of service."
Emerson’s Rosemount brand is the global market leader in tank gauging systems. The systems are custody transfer-approved and can be applied on many types of storage tanks, including fixed roof and floating roof tanks. Applications range from light products such as LPG, LNG and gasoline, to heavier products like crude oils and asphalt.
About Emerson Process Management
Emerson Process Management (http://www.emersonprocess.com), an Emerson business, is a leader in helping businesses automate their production, processing and distribution in the chemical, oil and gas, refining, pulp and paper, power, water and wastewater treatment, mining and metals, food and beverage, life sciences and other industries. The company combines superior products and technology with industry-specific engineering, consulting, project management and maintenance services. Its brands include PlantWeb™, Syncade™, DeltaV™, Fisher®, Micro Motion®, Rosemount®, Daniel™, Ovation™, and AMS Suite.
About Emerson
Emerson (NYSE: EMR), based in St. Louis, Missouri (USA), is a global leader in bringing technology and engineering together to provide innovative solutions for customers in industrial, commercial, and consumer markets around the world. The company is comprised of five business segments: Process Management, Industrial Automation, Network Power, Climate Technologies, and Commercial & Residential Solutions. Sales in fiscal 2011 were $24.2 billion. For more information, visit www.Emerson.com.
Contact:
Hans Westerlind
Emerson Process Management
+46 31 337 02 26
Hans.Westerlind@Emerson.com
