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MAC Solutions partners with Intelligent Plant to offer integrated enterprise solutions to the oil and gas market

MAC Solutions, developer of the ProcessVue® suite of alarm management software, has announced a cross-sourcing partnership agreement with Intelligent Plant, a provider of enterprise visualisation and business intelligence solutions for the oil & gas sector.

Both considered market leaders, the agreement will enable the companies to draw on each others’ strengths and to offer integrated, enterprise-wide solutions to oil and gas customers that cover all of their products and services.

ProcessVue® is a suite of software that provides clear, relevant and prioritised information to plant operators, supervisors and managers, enabling them to make better-informed decisions about their processes and plant safety. The software combines the (Read More) 

Explosion At Chinese Factory Shows Devastating Effects Of (Metal) Dust Explosion – Protection Systems Can Prevent Disastrous Consequences

According to provisional casualty figures, more than 70 people died in this latest major explosion at a Chinese factory. Dust was ignited by an open flame, which then led to an explosion. No one knows better than REMBE, the explosion protection specialists from Germany, that tragedies of this kind are avoidable. “The biggest problem is that many companies (Read More) 

Belzona Repairs and Protects Water Pumps at Historic Reservoir

Every day, the Queen Mary Reservoir holds 910,000,000 litres of water.

The water is drawn in from an intake channel fed from the Thames, before it is turned into enough fresh water to supply one of the busiest cities of the world. After nearly a century of activity, and following several refurbishments to machinery and equipment throughout the years, the centrifugal pumping system was ready for another major upgrade. (Read More)

Linear Measurement Over Long Sensing Distances – Now With Atex Approval

Sensors UK has expanded its wide range of laser distance sensors with the addition of ATEX (EX II 2G EEx d IIC T6) approval for its flagship model the FLS-C-10.

The FLS-C laser distance sensor measures absolute distances up to 500m, contact free, with an accuracy of ±1mm. The repeat accuracy is ±0.3mm with measurement values being updated at a frequency of up to 200Hz. (Read More)

New Sound Level Meter From Shawcity

New, and now available to buy from Shawcity in the UK are two intrinsically safe sound level meters from 3M, designed to work in challenging oil and gas environments.

Class/Type 1 SE-401-IS and Class/Type 2 SE-402-IS are extensions to the Sound Examiner SE-400 Series of sound level meters. (Read More)

Svantek Offers 24-Hour Noise & Vibration Monitoring At Kings College Hospital Construction Site

Portable environmental sound and vibration stations meet contractual requirement for real time measurement in surgical and external environments.

When 24-hour real time measurement of noise and vibration levels was required by  McLaughlin & Harvey, one of the UK’s leading construction companies, for a building project at Kings College Hospital, three SV212 portable environmental (Read More) 

To Protect And To Serve

Andy Anthony, Managing Director of Monitran, discusses how intrinsically safe sensors and a condition monitoring system are safeguarding plant and equipment.

Monitoring the condition of machinery is a practical means of protecting plant and equipment against unexpected failure, as changes in vibration levels or temperature often provide the earliest indication that maintenance is necessary. However, and as most readers will be aware, when the machinery is in a hazardous environment, (Read More) 

BSRIA Instrument Solutions Add Intrinsically Safe Instruments To Their Product Sales And Hire Portfolios

With an ever growing focus on health and safety in the work place, employers have statutory obligations to protect the workforce especially in hazardous environments.

Commercial and industrial companies providing products and services in such areas must take measures to ensure that all instrumentation used conforms to the standards set by the mandatory (Read More) 

Fitting Addition To Boost Safety

Flexicon has extended its range of hazardous area conduit systems with the launch of an Increased Safety EX e and Dust Ignition Proof EX t fitting for use with liquid tight conduits.

Ian Gibson, technical director for Flexicon, says: “While our EXD barrier glands can also be used for Increased Safety and Dust Ignition Proof, we recognised that not all hazardous area applications need a flameproof barrier gland and for these we can now provide a system (Read More) 

E2S publishes an information guide to measuring sound levels in dB

E2S Warning Signals, one of the world’s leading independent manufacturers of high-performance audible and visual signals for commercial, industrial, marine, onshore and offshore hazardous locations, has published an educational guide that seeks to ‘de-mystify’ the dB (decibel), one of the most common units in engineering, yet also one of the most confusing. The guide can be found at www.e2s.com/soundbasics. (Read More)

The main difficulty in comprehending dB measurements is that it is a log-linear scale, which, while it is very useful in representing very large differences in a more user-friendly scale, also compresses the scale. Sound is defined as any pressure variation that can be heard by the human ear. The Threshold of Hearing is defined as 0 dB; the threshold of pain is around 130 dB, a scale that can be readily understood. However, as the power difference between the two levels is 1013 : 1, or, to spell it out in full, 10,000,000,000,000 or ten million million to one, expressing it in these terms suddenly gives a much better idea of the change.

The guide sets sounder output levels in context with some everyday examples. For example, the A151 disaster warning sounder is rated at 150 dB, the same as a jet engine at 1m. It also discusses the effect of frequency on perceived loudness and includes some rules of thumb for system designers who are specifying the output and location of warning sounders to provide the desired sound levels as part of a warning system.

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