Tracerco Diagnostics™
Providing real time measurement technologies to assist with critical decision making. Tracerco Scanning Services TRU-SCAN® Application. Do you have problems with the operation of your stripper/absorber or fractionation tower? Is this limiting production? Do you want to reduce your operating costs? Do you want to reduce your shutdown time?
Tracerco’s Tru-Scan™ technology, utilizing FrothView™, is used to evaluate the mechanical integrity and hydraulic performance of trayed columns by measuring the total or true froth height on tray decks and liquid backup in downcomers. Damaged or missing trays, plugged downcomers, feed issues, and tray fouling are examples of problems with columns that can be diagnosed with a Tru-Scan™.
Tracerco scanning services have a proven track record with over 40 years of experience in assisting with plant start-ups, pre-shutdown planning and operational trouble-shooting.
A Tru-Scan™ is generally performed without any preparation to the tower i.e. no insulation is removed. Tracerco’s TRU-SCAN® service has proven to be cost effective by reducing off-spec production and equipment downtime. In today’s highly competitive refining, petrochemical, and chemical processing markets, more customers are using Tru-Scan™ information to determine plant bottlenecks and optimize performance.
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- Corrosion and Fouling Control
- Coking
- Fired Heaters, Furnaces and Boilers
- Gas Processing and Treatment
- Maintenance and Reliability
- Process Engineering
- Column, Reactor Internals, Screens and Packings
- Sulphur Removal and Recovery
- Amine Management
- LNG, NGL and GTL
- Alkylation
- Emissions Reduction
- Process Chemicals
- Safety, Health, Environment and Quality (SHEQ)
- Measurement and Testing Devices
- Storage Tanks and Terminals
- Crude and Vacuum Units
- Revamps and Turnarounds
- Mass Transfer
- Petrochemicals
- Pipeline Engineering
- Hydroprocessing
- Air Separation Units
- Power Generation
- Tube Bundles
- Desalting
- Heat Exchangers
- Isomerisation
- Propylene Maximisation
- Reforming
- Refractories
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FCC stripper - distribution studies
A Tracerco Diagnostics™ Distribution study can be performed to identify catalyst and vapor distribution in the stripper. Uniform distribution of catalyst and steam in the stripper is critical to achieve high stripping efficiency (less carry-down of the hydrocarbon products from reactor to regenerator). ...
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Exchanger leak testing - chemical tracers
Tracerco has been at the forefront of the development of online leak detection for the last 40 years. The method allows the detection of leaks as small as 0.5%. However, customer demands to measure smaller leaks affecting product quality, has prompted extensive research to develop alternative online ...
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Providing real time measurement technologies to assist with critical decision making. Tracerco Scanning Services TRU-SCAN® Application. Do you have problems with the operation of your stripper/absorber or fractionation tower? Is this limiting production? Do you want to reduce your operating costs? ...
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Tracerco Diagnostics™ FCCU Study
The Fluidized Catalytic Cracking Unit (FCCU) is the economic heart of a modern refinery. Even small increases in its yield can bring about significant overall gains in productivity and revenue. Tracerco is a world leading industrial technology company providing unique and specialized detection, diagnostic ...
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Measurement instruments and servicing
Our Measurement Instruments business designs and manufactures a range of bespoke, low maintenance, high reliability instruments providing operators with real time measurements and in-situ visualisation. Our experienced team technically supports an extensive range of nucleonic measurement instruments ...
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Making desalter vessels transparent to optimise crude processing
Making Desalter Vessels Transparent to Optimise Crude Processing... whatever the blend. To improve margins, refiners continuously look to optimise feedstock blends. Variability can bring significant operational challenges during the refining process that must be overcome. One critical need is the efficient ...
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Moving gamma scanning forward — quantitative analysis of tray capacity
Improving process operating margins can include maximising production of higher value products and/or minimising production costs. Process plants depend heavily on fractionation towers to produce products meeting customer specifications. Tower gamma scanning is well established in the process industries ...
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PackView™ - quantitative analysis of packing mal-distribution
The last issue of Tracerco Insight (Vol 6 Ed 1) featured our patent pending FrothView™ technology illustrating how using Tracerco’s new measurement detector technology and analysis of gamma scan data provides quantitative information about the useful capacity of trayed towers. In this article ...
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In FCC Units (Fluidised Catalyst Cracking Units) the atmospheric residue from the distillation is cracked to LPG, naptha and other components. This sometimes leads to “invisible” deposits inside the Riser. This article features Tracerco’s ThruVision™ scans to illustrate how the ...
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A Windows based application offering dynamic displays, diagnostics, trending, control and historical logging. The Profiler™HMI, is a ready-made graphical user interface that provides clear insight into your separation process while enabling efficient operation and control of the Profiler™GPS ...
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