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Olushola Akande
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Olushola Akande

Olushola Akande is an industrial automation and robotics expert with over 10 years of experience in the design and development of automation and robotics-related projects. He is an industrial automation trainer and consultant with a passion for driving industries to achieve greater results by doing work more accurately with less effort of human control. He is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Showlight Technologies Limited, an industrial automation, robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) training and servicing company in Lagos, Nigeria. He is a member of the Schneider Electric team involved in the installation of Integrated Control and Safety Systems (ICSSs), which includes high-integrity PLCs, supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, and distributed control systems (DCSs) at the largest oil refinery in Africa (Dangote Oil Refinery) at Lekki Free Zone, Lagos, Nigeria.
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Flow measurement and transmitters

Flow measurement is an operation carried out to measure the flow of fluids in a pipe using an instrument. Several flow-measuring instruments exist, which include the following:

  • A differential pressure flow meter: This uses a pressure difference created by a sensing element (for example, an orifice plate or a Venturi tube) to determine the rate of a flow. A differential pressure transmitter has a high- and low-pressure port to which the high- and low-pressure side of the sensing element will be connected and it produces a standard signal of 4 to 20 mA that corresponds to the flow rate.

The following figure shows a Rosemount differential pressure transmitter:

Figure 12.12 – A Rosemount differential pressure transmitter (this file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license)

Figure 12.12 – A Rosemount differential pressure transmitter (this file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license)

  • A velocity flow meter: This determines a flow rate by measuring the flow velocity...
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Olushola Akande

Olushola Akande is an industrial automation and robotics expert with over 10 years of experience in the design and development of automation and robotics-related projects. He is an industrial automation trainer and consultant with a passion for driving industries to achieve greater results by doing work more accurately with less effort of human control. He is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Showlight Technologies Limited, an industrial automation, robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) training and servicing company in Lagos, Nigeria. He is a member of the Schneider Electric team involved in the installation of Integrated Control and Safety Systems (ICSSs), which includes high-integrity PLCs, supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, and distributed control systems (DCSs) at the largest oil refinery in Africa (Dangote Oil Refinery) at Lekki Free Zone, Lagos, Nigeria.
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