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Employee-Owner Profiles - Krista Drager

Posted by Sentry Equipment on 2/6/20 8:00 AM

You might recognize her name from sending out The Monitor Blog notifications, but that’s just a fraction of Krista Drager’s responsibilities at Sentry Equipment. In her role as Marketing Manager, Krista spearheads the company’ marketing efforts: contributing to the company’s sales growth, maintaining branding across multiple industries, and helping to deliver exceptional customer experiences.

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Topics: Company News

5 Keys to Establishing a Best-in-Class Sampling Program [Infographic]

Posted by Sentry Equipment on 2/3/20 8:00 AM

In the oil and gas industry, sampling hydrocarbon liquids, such as crude oil, related cuts, condensates, and oil and water mixtures, is critical to ensuring quality control, identifying corrosion and ensuring processes are operating as expected. However, improperly operating or poorly maintained manual sampling panels can lead to poor lab results, high maintenance costs and increased exposure of operators to spills. Keep your operators safe, remain in environmental compliance and maximize uptime by transforming your sampling program to top notch one.

Here are five things you can do to transform a problem hydrocarbon sampling program.

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Topics: Downstream

New Wastewater Treatment to Address Heavy Weather Overflows

Posted by Sentry Equipment on 1/27/20 8:15 AM

A progressive new water treatment project near Milwaukee, WI, will help address wastewater overflows during heavy weather events, a growing concern for many municipalities. The project centers on a proactive and cost-effective solution to benefit water quality throughout the Milwaukee area and entire Great Lakes region.

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Topics: Power, Company News, Steam & Water

Keeping Pet Food Safe with Automatic Samplers

Posted by Tod Myers on 1/13/20 8:00 AM

Ensuring that animals’ food is safe and meets federal regulations is critical to the animals that consume it, the people who care for those animals and the brand image of the manufacturers. Automatic representative sampling of animal food helps ensure quality and safety for both people and pets.

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Topics: Food & Beverage, Solids & Powder

Employee-Owner Profiles - Rebecca Mudler

Posted by Sentry Equipment on 1/9/20 8:00 AM

As a Business Process Architect, Rebecca Mudler facilitates process improvements within the company to ensure every customer, internal and external, gets a high-quality product on time. Her work has helped Sentry Equipment make improvements that have driven business growth and given Rebecca career opportunities while achieving work-life balance.

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Topics: Company News

Maintain Accurate Steam and Water Sampling in Your Hydrocarbon Plant

Posted by John Powalisz on 1/6/20 8:07 AM

The full version of this information can be found in the January 2020 of Hydrocarbon Engineering.

A well-designed steam and water sampling system can give you the critical insights you need to monitor steam and condensate quality, cycle chemistry (power production) and identify potential problems in your Hydrocarbon plant.

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Topics: Power, Downstream, Steam & Water

How Cycle Chemistry Helps Protect Your Passive Layer

Posted by Doug Hubbard on 12/16/19 8:18 AM

The passive layer protects hydrocarbon and power plant equipment from corrosion and all the devastating effects that corrosion can cause. Cycle chemistry is critical to maintaining and protecting your passive layer – and your equipment.

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Topics: Power, Downstream, Steam & Water

How to Choose Your Internal Corrosion Mitigation Method

Posted by Lance Witt on 12/9/19 8:00 AM

This is the third part in our series about preventing, monitoring and treating corrosion in hydrocarbon pipelines. You can read the first two posts here and here.

Internal corrosion monitoring is critical to preventing and addressing corrosion inside gas and oil pipelines. It’s also the first step in choosing the right corrosion mitigation method based on identified corrosive constituents.

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Topics: Upstream & Midstream, Liquid & Slurry, Gas

Employee-Owner Profiles - Kim Lobert

Posted by Sentry Equipment on 12/5/19 8:00 AM

As a Sales and Application Engineer, Kim Lobert is tasked with fielding requests for product information and quotes from customers, regional sales managers, website leads and more. But her real skill lies in reading between the lines to decipher the true need – and turning it into a successful order.

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Topics: Company News

Maintenance 101: Developing a Reliable Hydrocarbon Sampling Program

Posted by Randy Cruse on 12/2/19 8:00 AM

The full version of this information can be found in May 2020 of Hydrocarbon Engineering.

Developing a reliable hydrocarbon sampling program doesn’t end with implementation. It requires a maintenance service program that will keep your equipment running properly to ensure operator safety and equipment performance. But it can be overwhelming to establish a hydrocarbon service program. Get started with these 5 steps.

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Topics: Downstream, Liquid & Slurry, Gas