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    chocolate tank level control advise

    Viscosity of liquid pitch must be similar to hot chocolates. And the only level sensor that worked for us, on 60 meter high storage tanks, is Radar. We tried everything that was mentioned , only radar worked to this day, and we are talking about liquid pitch storage tanks that is heated, average...
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    What happened with: Bulk Weight Measurements using Ship Draft?

    Below is the letter sent to me by Known100 on this subject. An attachment is included which i will publish tomorrow. --------- Dear Leandro; Thanks for informing me your E-mail address and this makes it a bit easier to forward you my comments (purely out of practice / experience). I do...
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    What happened with: Bulk Weight Measurements using Ship Draft?

    to known100: Thanks in advance. email to u0549@alba.com.bh to IRstuff: will do that. As far as i remember from the thread, long tonnes is used as unit for the ship draft measurement. Our Belt weighers ( we have 14 belt weighers all over the plant ) is totalised in Metric Tonnes. What is the...
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    What happened with: Bulk Weight Measurements using Ship Draft?

    I was trying to find an answer to how the Shipping World handles the difference between the bulk cargo measurement using ship draft ( as per the ship captain ) and land based weighers. Can't find any possible leads throught the internet. That was the reason I was not paying attention to the...
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    Machinery Control. PLC over SoftPLC

    Sorry, but now i do understand what the "Soft PLC" being referred to. We have not encounterd any pressure from our suppliers to switch to such system or configuration, so really have not heard of it. If the DCS configuration is what the "Traditional" would be, a...
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    Machinery Control. PLC over SoftPLC

    A PC-based Control System can take the following configuration. - A PC with remote / distributed I/O networks running a "Soft PLC" control application - A PLC co-processor card installed in a PC backplane - A PC co-processor card installed in a PLC backplane - An open architecture...

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