With asset management, those who work in refineries or petrochemical complexes need to pay more attention to control valves. As an integral part of plant operations, control valves are critical to ensure proper, continuous, and efficient plant operations.

Since control valve data is driven by process data, the chosen solution determines the ramp up rate and performance of the plant.

Replacing failed parts that are critical to control valves is expensive, but not nearly as pricey as the total cost of lost production encountered during downtime to replace these parts.

Knowing the control valves’ wellbeing in real time along with being able to predict impending failure is important. Having this capability enables you to preemptively address primary unexpected emergency downtime that could potentially cause

Eastern Controls’ training program for maintenance technicians and engineers has proven to be a huge success since its inception in 2016. With a large variety of courses covering a wide swath of industries, you won’t find any other manufacturing representative with the level of training gained through the use of our PTU (Process Training Unit).

The PTU is a fully-functioning two-story process skid with a variety of products replicating an actual real-world process plant. Incorporating this useful tool within our training program allows attendees to get hands-on!

This summer we are offering the following courses:

Control Valve – Advanced

This advanced level control valve training course exposes attendees to a variety of control valve settings, testing, and inspection processes with plenty of hands-on learning within ECI’s shop and the PTU!

Ambient temperature has the biggest impact on the output and efficiency of a gas turbine. The higher the ambient temperature the lower the density of air causing a reduction in mass flow.

The two most common types of gas inlet air cooling are chilling and evaporative. These two methods help improve gas turbine performance during hot summers. When using chilling to reduce inlet air temperature below dew point temperature, mechanical chillers are used to provide relatively cool air below ambient air dew point with consistency at the gas turbine inlet. It utilizes electrical power which may add in station auxiliary load noticeably subsequently may impact on the heat rate.

There are two methods of evaporative cooling of gas turbine inlet air; the evaporative coolers and the fogging. In fogging special designed fog nozzles in combination of very high-pressure supply pumps, are used.

AUMA is beginning to change the face of the industrial sector through digitization. They continue to create and advance towards the future of IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) with innovative technologies like the AUMA Cloud and Support App. Let’s dive right in and learn more about these technologies!

AUMA Cloud

Just last year, AUMA introduced a solution for cost-effective asset management and condition-based predictive maintenance called the AUMA Cloud. The AUMA Cloud is a free, secure, and easy-to-use interactive web application that collects and assesses detailed device information on all AUMA actuators in a plant.

The Cloud allows plant operators to detect excessive loads or other problems at an early stage and take remedial action in time to prevent potential failures.

The AUMA Cloud analyzes data and presents results clearly so

According to IoT News, global spending on IIoT in the manufacturing industry is estimated to grow from $1.67 billion to $12.4 billion by 2024. The IIoT can transform traditional, linear manufacturing supply chains into more dynamic, interconnected systems that can take the efficiency of a business to the next level. Endress+Hauser is a company that is embracing the future of IIoT as well as driving it forward through innovative products and solutions.

Endress+Hauser sees the benefits of digitalization and, therefore, is constantly increasing its offer of products, solutions, and services in order to increase customers’ productivity and system availability. They were even awarded for their innovation in 2017 with the “Digital Champion Award” for their new technology, Memosens. Memosens is a sensor technology for liquid analysis in various industries such as chemical, power and energy, food and beverage, and water and wastewater.