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Voices of Experience

Some Users Ask Us for Transmitters with 0.10% Accuracy, and Then Buy a Sensor That’s Off by Up to 10 °F at Different Temperature Levels
Post Date: 01/12/2009
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Level Measurements Under Water? Balluff Has the Answer

Balluff Introduces SMARTLevel Capacitive Sensors
Post Date: 12/22/2008
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When You Need to Know about Level Measurement

This Month's Resources on Level Measurement
Post Date: 10/28/2008
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Livin’ is Easy with Level-Headed Liquid-Level Transmitters

MTS Sensors Develops Its Level Plus liquid Level Transmitters
Post Date: 10/10/2008
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Pressure-Based Level Measurements Keep Getting Better and Better

While Radar and Ultrasonics Are Getting Most of the Attention, Automation Vendors Are Quietly Improving Their Pressure-Based Level Measurement Instrumentation
Post Date: 08/07/2008
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Radar Transmitter Keeps Processes on the Level

All of Us Are Familiar with Glitches with Electronics in Industrial Applications—Especially Interfaces with Process Materials
Post Date: 08/07/2008
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Catch the Level Buzz

Level Sensors Meet New Environmental Concerns and New Demand in China and India
Post Date: 07/29/2008
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Continuous Level Measurement; Noise Filters

“Ask the Experts,” on ControlGlobal.com, is moderated by noted process control authority Béla Lipták. Béla and his cadre of leading experts in process automation, recruited from among the co-authors of the Instrument Engineer’s Handbook 4th Edition, are “in the box” all month answering process control questions from...
Post Date: 07/03/2008
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Purge/Pressurization Challenges Reduced at the Outset

Pepperl+Fuchs’ 6000-series Type X/EEx Purge/Pressurization System Offers Versatility to Customers
Post Date: 06/12/2008
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How to Measure pH Inside a Tank; Increasing Scan Times

“Ask the Experts,” on ControlGlobal.com, is moderated by noted process control authority Béla Lipták. Béla and his cadre of leading experts in process automation, recruited from among the co-authors of the Instrument Engineer’s Handbook 4th Edition, are “in the box” all month answering process control questions from...
Post Date: 06/11/2008
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Keeping on the Level

Measuring the Level of Solids Can Be Tricky. Ultrasonic and Laser Measurement May Be the Answer
Post Date: 02/05/2008
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Difficult Level Measurements

“Ask the Experts” is moderated by noted process control authority Béla Lipták (liptakbela@aol.com), editor of the Instrument Engineer’s Handbook. In this column, he and his co-authors welcome questions concerning process measurement or control. Please include P&ID drawings using ISA symbols to illustrate questions ...
Post Date: 10/02/2007
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Just the Right Amount of Starch

National Starch digitally monitors pressure, flow, level, conductivity, pH and weight instruments via fieldbus.
Post Date: 09/28/2007
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The best level technology for you

In this month's installmnet of Product Roundup, we focus on level measurement methods in control systems and instrumentation that might just help you solve a process problem or two.
Post Date: 05/10/2007
Author: Patti Pool

First the application, then the product

CONTROL Editor in Chief Walt Boyes defines a range of applications and types of level measurement devices and techniques used for figuring out even the most complex level measurement problems.
Post Date: 02/01/2007
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Staying on the level

Every month, CONTROL’s editors take a specific product area, collect all the latest, significant tools we can find and present them here to make your job easier. This month, we focus on level measurement.
Post Date: 11/10/2006
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Diagramming drum level control

Harold Wade suggest a few additional points be made to the three-element boiler level control figures in a previous article that show how signals from the steam flow FT and the drum LT combine in the LIC.
Post Date: 10/16/2006
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Innovations in batching, dosing and weighing

Challenges brought on by new regulations and technical problems for batching, dosing and weighing have pushed users to find some innovative and surprising solutions beyond our own industry.
Post Date: 07/12/2006
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Contact-type level instrumentation rebounds

Because not all of the non-contact sensors listed here are actually new—some are enhancements to existing products—this year’s Product Roundup may indicate a return to relative normalcy in the level industry.
Post Date: 05/10/2006
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How to determine the ratio of gas mixtures

Process control authority Bela Liptak brings in specialists from his cadre of co-authors to answer a reader's question. Find out if they agree on a valid way to determine the ratio of chlorine to total gas mixture.
Post Date: 04/20/2006
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