A large proportion of the energy we produce disappears unused into thin air via waste heat. Tiny thermoelectric generators can tap this potential, producing electricity by way of temperature differences. However, so far their production has been laborious and expensive. At the same time there is a lack of suitable materials. [ + ]

If a food manufacturer was to ask me what the greatest risk that lubricants could have on my business, my answer would be the potential for food and beverage to reach the market place containing undetected non-food-grade lubricant. While there are other negative impacts lubricant can pose on a food manufacturer this is clearly the most substantial and potentially damaging. [ + ]

As part of a multimillion-dollar project to build Victoria’s largest underground recycled water treatment plant at the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), Compressed Air and Power Solutions (CAPS) Australia was selected to supply aeration blowers for the facility. [ + ]

Michell Instruments enabled a natural gas storage operator to improve the hydrocarbon and water dew-point measurements at its natural gas storage site in Europe. [ + ]

As part of ongoing plant upgrades, Oil Refinery Oberrhein (MiRO) has recently introduced a new automation solution in its blending plant. [ + ]

Salad manufacturer Sunfresh Salads contracted Aerofloat Australia to install a Model 3500 Aerofloat to treat its wastewater. The Aerofloat is removing up to 97% of SS and FOG. [ + ]

Rockwell Software applications ease compliance, improve performance and promote conservation for Wellington’s water supply. [ + ]

It is estimated that about 66% of the programmable electronic systems (PES) running in the process industry were installed before the publication of today’s commonly used safety standards (IEC 61508 and IEC 61511/ISA 84). [ + ]

Can you imagine a world where telephone systems only worked within a city but not outside it? Or where emails could only be sent within a company’s intranet but not externally? Can you imagine the resultant inefficiency and lack of productivity? [ + ]

Smart thinking, coupled with innovative technology and ultrareliable equipment, is paying dividends for Queensland-based manufacturer OreKinetics. [ + ]

Safety in today’s market has come a long way from the simple, single-function safety relays of the past. Now engineers are left to question which is best for the efficient implementation of the prevailing safety requirements in their process: programmable, network-enabled safety controllers or spatially limited, configurable safety relays? [ + ]

Over 40 years of continuous around-the-clock operation, the tanks and vats in the Forst specialty beer brewery’s old brewhouse in Italy produced 25 million hectolitres of beer. Now, since brewing technology has progressed, the management decided to construct a completely new brewhouse, saving 30% in energy consumption. [ + ]

It is a well-recognised fact that global ore grades are declining while commodity demands continue to rise. These ore bodies are increasingly complex, requiring a finer grind size for maximum mineral recovery and grade, and are setting new challenges, particularly for grinding technology. [ + ]

As an asset-intensive operation with more than 8500 assets, the Smithfield Energy Facility in Sydney, New South Wales, needed a better way to manage and maintain its assets. It chose Mainpac 2011 Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) software to provide better visibility into its asset base. [ + ]

In part 1 of this article we looked at the challenges associated with level measurement and at a few of the common point level detection technologies available. In this part we move on to overview continuous level measurement technologies. [ + ]