Karl Charvat, business development manager at Westlock Controls, delivered a presentation on the topic of position monitoring and the use of wireless technology. The evening was hosted and sponsored by Valve & Automation and took place at the Woodpecker Inn, Birdswood.
The underlying advantages of wireless technology like low infrastructural costs, scalability, mobility, and the ability to operate in extreme and remote environments, have got many end users considering it for industrial automation solutions such as valve monitoring. Karl introduced the wireless valve monitoring system, features and benefits which include reduced costs, easier engineering and installation, faster commissioning and start-up, solutions where space is constrained, smaller footprint and monitoring of manual or automated valves, This reduces unwarranted field trips and labour costs, and improves operational efficiency and safety through wireless valve monitoring that is easy to integrate with control systems.
June Technology Evening – Endress+Hauser
Pieter Becker (left) with Cédric Jeanneret after the June presentation.
Cédric Jeanneret, head of sales and business development at Flowtec, was in the country and had an opportunity to present to members on the new trends in flow measurement technology, especially in the measurement of hydrocarbons. The evening was held at Umhambi lodge where Cédric began with a video that demonstrated the principle of operation of a single tube coriolis flowmeter. He went on to introduce the world’s first ever 14 inch coriolis meter employing four tubes and with an accuracy of 0,05% designed for custody transfer applications. This flowmeter can be used to measure mass flow, temperature and density. Members were alerted to the potential cost savings and its dependence on measurement accuracy, especially when large flow rates are involved. The four tube coriolis solution was compared to other technologies such as magnetic, ultrasonic and differential pressure meters, in terms of size, accuracy as well as turn down ratio.
Two new members, Brandon James and Brightman Mdluli, were handed their membership certificates at the June Technology Evening.
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