Common applications

Every industry has its own specific and unique applications that sets them apart from all others and challenges in level and flow applications that require particular attention to details to be able to select the most appropriate instrument that will satisfy the requirements for the intended control scenario. 

Magnetrol offers level and flow instruments to meet these challenges; let it be contact switches for alarm or control purposes as well as continuous level and flow tracking using various technologies, such as non-contact radar or ultrasonics, guided wave radar, magnetostrictive, thermal dispersion as well as the time proven mechanical floats and displacers.

All of these industries also share a number of common applications that represent the backbone of every process and are pretty much identical or very similar in nature.  Here are some of the most common applications that we encounter in all industries.

Applications

Condensate and Waste Heat Recovery

CHALLENGES Realizing the financial expectations of your condensate and waste heat recovery system investment: • Implementing advanced technology level solutions with minimal work force training • Managing real-time operational situations with a...
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Flow: Air flow

The flow of air is monitored in nearly all industrial settings, including processing applications, determining fuel-to-air mixtures for combistion, cooling, blowing & drying, aeration, ventilation, filtration, and ingredients mixing....
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Flow: Centrifugal pump protection

Pump protection is a very common applications in industry. The idea behind the application is to confirm that a pump is actually pushing fluid downstream by confirming there is flow downstream or that the pump is primed or not in air lockup in the...
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Flow: Compressors & Pumps

Pumps are used throughout field operations for moving drilling fluids, crude oil and produced water. The gas compression process increases natural gas pressure to facilitate pipeline transport. Flow switches monitor product streams to signal no-...
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Flow: Gas mixtures flow

Besides air and single gases, such as O2, N2, H2, etc., there are many gas mixtures being measured and controlled on a daily basis in different industries. One of the most common ones is natural gas used as a fuel or even biogases from...
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Flow: Liquified gases

Some gases, such as natural gass, nitrogen, oxygen and others, exist and are handled in liquid form in industry. Magnetrol does not offer liquid flow measurement devices other than open channel flow.  However, Magnetrol does offer switches than...
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Flow: Open channel flow

Several of our level transmitters are programmed with open channel flow equations for a number of channel geometries, such as flumes and weirs. We also offer a strapping tableoption to create custom strapping tables for odd shape open channel...
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Flow: Single gas flow

Oxygen, Hydrogen, Carbon dioxide, Nitrogen and Argon are the most commonly measured single gases in industry.
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Level: Chemical & additives storage

From acids to water treatment additives, a wide array of chemicals are stored at a refinery in vessels that range in size from plastic totes to large steel tanks. Chemicals such as sulfuric and hydrochloric acid, sodium hydroxide, liquid catalysts...
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Level: Containment & drainage sumps

A plant has many low-lying drainage reservoirs known as sumps; small sumps include pump enclosures and tank rupture basins that contain leakage. Small sumps are monitored for leak detection with simple, float-operated level switches designed for...
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Level: Finished product storage

Finished refinery products stored in tanks with capacities that often exceed 100,000 gallons are motor gasoline, jet fuel, diesel fuel, fuel oils, and LPG. Marketed products also include feedstocks for textiles, tires, pharmaceuticals and plastics.
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Level: Lubrication oils & hydraulic fluids

Generators and gas turbines will have integral lubricating systems to prevent damage caused by excessive friction. Often a portion of the lubricating oil is used in the hydraulic oil systems for hydraulic control devices. Lubricating oil is...
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Level: Process & field storage tanks

Crude oil, natural gas liquids (NGLs) and water are stored in oil and gas fields. Unlike midstream tank farms at terminals and refineries, field storage consists of smaller vessels associated with oil, gas and water processing. Diesel generator...
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Level: Seal Pots

This is one of the most common application we handle. A seal pot is a lube oil reservoir used to lubricate gears on machinery and rotating equipment such as pumps and turbines.  There are companies that specialize in these small skids and they use...
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Level: Water storage & wash tanks

Storage for reclaimed water ranges from small tanks for potable and service water use, to large, open or enclosed, reservoirs. Large capacity storage - most commonly in open reservoirs - is necessary for off-line storage of peak flows, flow-...
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