Tracerco Diagnostics™ Invaluable insights for gas processing industries
World-leading online. Process Diagnostics™ With over 60 years’ experience, Tracerco’s range of diagnostic solutions provides gas processing industries with the insights they need to make informed decisions about their operations.
Process Diagnostics™
Tracerco’s ability to diagnose process problems allows you to optimise productivity and minimise costs. Our innovative technology helps you ‘see inside’ your processes without needing to shut down operations, and provides the insights you need to troubleshoot problems, reduce costs, and maximise your profits. Over the years, our technology and services have saved our gas processing customers millions.
Troubleshooting
Tracerco’s troubleshooting technology can be rapidly deployed anywhere in the world from our global office network. Our insights can help you find the right solutions to your production problems quickly and with minimal disruption to your operations.
Baseline planning
Baseline scans can be used as a valuable reference to identify and monitor operating performance changes in a column over time. A baseline scan establishes a reference point, a historical marker for column performance. A baseline scan should be performed when the column is clean, known to be in good mechanical condition, and operating with no known problems. The data from a baseline scan enhances future scan sensitivity and allows more subtle operational changes to be identified.
Tower scanning
Tru-Scan™ and Tru-Grid™ Scan applications provide a quick, reliable, and economical method to reveal conditions such as flooding, tray froth heights, foaming, weeping, tray and packing damage, and liquid maldistribution. Scans are performed online, generally without any preparation to the tower, and with no removal of insulation.
Tracerco’s Tru-Scan™ and Tru-Grid™ Scan services are cost effective because they reduce off-spec production and equipment downtime. They are also routinely used to locate plant bottlenecks and optimise performance.
For trayed towers, FrothView™ uses gamma scan data to reliably measure total froth height on a tray. PackView™ uses gamma scan data to determine relative densities through packing that can be converted into liquid holdup fractions, as a quantitative measure of liquid maldistribution.
Pre-turnaround planning
Tracerco can detect specific maintenance needs before shutdown, allowing production planners to focus on the problem, acquire materials, and prepare before the system is shut down. Scheduling scans before a turnaround provides valuable insights that minimise costs and time.
Process systems with a history of fouling or tray damage benefit from pre-turnaround scans, verifying the need to order tower internals and avoid tray manufacturer’s emergency charges. They can also be used to plan and monitor the wash chemicals used to purge solids from a system.
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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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