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    Continous temperature measurement

    if you want to get fancy...thermal imaging. I used it on a staged coker in a lab that required tight control. It exceeded my expectations.
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    Drum level measurement with DP trx

    Yeah, I would just get sealed leg capillaries and be done with it. Tell them the minimum temp you get to. I have installed this for -50C aps using Rosemount. If your heart is set on wet legs (uggg) glycol gets pretty thick in the cold. you might need to go from a 60/40 glycol (assuming that...
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    Level Measurement for a difficult application

    the laser will not likely work...has not in my experience. The scale might, but I am guessing there will be piping that will scew that measurement. I would consider a Nuclear gauge. I have had to use this in similar applications in the past.
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    Pressure Transmitter- Temperature Rating

    i would contact rosemount. in similar applications i have used necked / standoff manifolds. I was shocked at how much research has been put into temperature rating and management in the past few years when i attended a seminar a few months back. I have actually installed rosemount...
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    Control / alarm set point for desuperheater

    Think of it like your furnace. You may set a stat at 22C, but it is going to stray up and down a couple degrees (say 19-25C). Not a big deal in the house. If you use a VFD on the furnace you will maintain that 22C. View the VFD as said control valve. It maintains Set-Point, as opposed to...
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    Is pressure control valve good enough than solenoid

    Think of it like your furnace. You may set a stat at 22C, but it is going to stray up and down a couple degrees (say 19-25C). Not a big deal in the house. If you use a VFD on the furnace you will maintain that 22C. View the VFD as said control valve.
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    dP Flow Measurement on Elbow in pipeline

    talk to your meter supplier. If they can not calculate that out and provide a datasheet, it is time for a new vendor.
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    Is pressure control valve good enough than solenoid

    radar, ensure it is low frequency, not high, when dealing with froth / foam. Guided would be much better. Don't rule out contacting systems. There are many great vendors, one of which is http://www.ktekcorp.com. Their Megnoresistive are pretty reliable. A capacitive probe would work well...
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    Instrumentation Loop Checking Standards/Procedures

    I would look to hiring a 3rd party commissioning crew. That generally works best. The installer is more conscious of maintenance friendly installations because they know another company will be going through their work before it is "turned over." 3rd party commissioning has always worked best...
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    ESD Requirement - Code or Specific Risk Reduction

    There are fields that require an ESD after any schedule change even. So in a gas well you would have to have one off the well head (and potentially a down hole ESD as well), at the separator, at the line heater, and prior to the pipeline.
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    intrumentation for measuring pressure change in air ducts?

    JLSeagull - a "flow element" is a very broad statement. anyything that measures flow has a "flow element." An orifice plate is a flow element, as is a hot wire, as is the vortex shredding bar, as is a coriolis tube, etc etc etc. What model was the Intek meter? I am familiar with some of...
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    intrumentation for measuring pressure change in air ducts?

    not hot wire in the tradition handheld sense you refer to Kayden makes a model: http://www.kayden.com/ so does kobold (KAL-K, KAL-A, KAL-L, etc models) Sage makes them there are piles of makes and models
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    Best applications for Vortex flow meters

    sorry...wrong thread for last post
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    Best applications for Vortex flow meters

    not hot wire in the tradition handheld sense you refer to Kayden makes a model: http://www.kayden.com/ so does kobold (KAL-K, KAL-A, KAL-L, etc models) Sage makes them there are piles of makes and models

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