| The desktop companion for PGL General PGLR, which stands for Petroleum Gauging Logger Reader, is the desktop program to read the data that was synchronized to a desktop from a PDA device with the PGL program. The PGL (Petroleum Gauging Logger) is a portable calculating, calibrating, and logging device to assist in fuel tank gauging and ATG calibration. A PGL allows you to perform an innage or an outage gauge on a tank and will automatically and instantly provide you with the corrected value for the innage, outage, and the fuel level in the case of an outage. The corrected value is the value after applying the calibration factors determined by the NIST for the selected gauging tape. In addition, PGL meets the formal API requirements to perform a calibration of Automatic Tank Gauges. All three calibration procedures (Preliminary, Final, and Verification) are supported in PGL. PGLR allows you to view all the data that is stored on the PDA device for the PGL program. There are two PGLR windows. One for the Gauging (Innage or Outage) and one for the Calibration (selectable by calibration stage). The data on each screen may be printed out for a hard copy record. Operating the PGL Reader is very simple and there are not a lot of options or controls. Understanding the principles involved for a value in any particular column or parameter displayed in the PGL Reader is automatic once you have an understanding of fuel gauging and PGL itself. Startup When PGLR is first started up or loaded, you see the condition that the PGL was left in when the data was uploaded from the PGL to the desktop machine. That is, if the last screen on the PGL for example was a Calibration Verification for the Upper Tank Farm, Tank No. 18, then when the PGLR starts up, the Gauging window will display the Outage screen as a default condition, but then the Calibration window will also open, as the top most window, in the Verification mode with Tank Farm, Upper TKF; Tank No. 18; and Test Level, Middle Third (disabled). You may then change any selection on the Calibration window or move to the Gauging window. If the last screen on the PGL before synching to the desktop was Innage for the Surge Tanks, Tank No. STK3, then when the PGLR starts up, the Gauging window will display the Innage screen with Surge TKS as the selected Tank Farm and with Tank No. STK3 highlighted. In this case the Calibration window does not open. The Calibration window may be opened by going to the menu bar and pressing Tools>Calibration. |
When PGLR is first started or loaded, it reads all of the necessary PGL files that were last synched and displays the data and gives you the state the PGL was in when last used (see Startup). If PGLR is active on the PC, and the desktop machine receives a new upload of synched data from a Pocket PC with PGL, you may "read-in" this new data by going to File>Read PGL Files. The PGLR windows will be updated with the new data. The windows will update in the manner as if the PGLR program had just been started. Entering Selections in PGLR In PGLR you may not change any of the the data that the Pocket PGL logged, you may only view it or print it. On the Gauging screen you have the option of viewing all of the tanks for the whole facility or by individual Tank Farms on an Innage/Outage basis. On the Calibration screen you have three viewing choices because of the variety and complexity of the calibration procedures. Your first choice is the Tank Farm, then the specific Tank No. followed by the Test Level. |
PGLR: The Desktop Reader for PGL
This program is the natural desktop companion to your field, portable device PGL.
In the field, PGL provides you with the instantaneous calculations, with "all" of the necessary tape corrections, for either an innage or outage calibration.In the office, PGLR lets you review your gauging results, innage or outage for all tanks at one glance, make hard-copy printouts, or export and process with other programs.
PGLR provides 2 basic windows:
- GAUGING - (Display either Innage or Outage)
- CALIBRATION
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