Energy Conservation in Industrial Plants

Conserving energy as a means of saving the environment—and bettering your bottom line—has scarcely been more crucial than today. Find out how with the use of some indispensible tools such as thermal imagers and power quality analyzers you can safely and effectively put an end to unnecessary energy loss in your industrial plant.
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DMM vs Clamp Meter

Examine the differences between digital multimeters and clamp meters and see which makes the most sense to your industrial application. This helpful article will help you sort it all out to help you find the right instrument for your job.
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Salt in Crude Oil

Challenge: The Liquid Gold Petroleum Refinery is responsible for transforming tons of crude oil into more useful products such as diesel, petrol, and fuel oil. For some reason, they have had a lot of trouble with their heat exchangers clogging up. One of their first steps in treating the crude oil is putting it through the desalter, which removes the salt in the crude oil. The salt can cause a number of problems such as formation of hydrochloric acid from water hydrolysis, interference with important catalysts in the process, and additional buildup in heat exchangers.

Since the heat exchangers are clogging up and salt is often a major culprit in buildup, the factory manager thinks there may be an issue with their desalter. To determine if there is an issue they decided to measure the salt in the crude oil before and after passing it through the desalter. The factory manager has called for a suggestion regarding the appropriate instrument to use for testing the salt content. Which of the following items would you suggest?

1. An Oakton Salt Testr
2. Chloride ISE
3. Digital Salt-In-Crude Analyzer
4. Refractometer

Ultrasonic Transesterification of
Oil to Biodiesel

In a time when the price of petroleum is ever-fluctuating and the strenuous quest to find a suitable alternative energy sources is key, some are already using ultrasconics to provide a way to covert vegetable oil and animal fats to biodiesel fuel. Learn more about how this process is maintained in a safe and effective manner with the use of ultrasonic transesterification.
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