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State of the art solution for gasoline group type analysis in 39 minutes. The Reformulyzer M4 is the most signifi cant advancement in full group type analysis of gasoline and gasoline blend streams using multi-dimensional gas chromatography. It is the fastest and most flexible analyzer on the market to combine analysis for Paraffins, Olefins, Naphthenes, Oxygenates, and Aromatics in one instrument. The Reformulyzer is the only solution that truly meets today’s challenges in ...
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Advanced Analytical Instrumentation for Lab Applications
PAC offers an extensive product portfolio with cutting edge solutions for gas chromatography, elemental analysis, physical properties, fuels composition, and laboratory automation. PAC complies with ISO 9001 and ISO 17025 standards, which guarantees the quality of our products and reaffirms our commitment to quality, precision and customer support. We're an industry leader in standards development, and we work tirelessly to establish benchmark procedures that scientists and ...
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Advanced process control for Prime-G+™
The benchmark technology for ultra low sulfur FCC gasoline. Deep HDS of cracked gasoline in one sweet little process. Deep hydrodesulfurization (HDS) of FCC gasoline (the largest sulfur contributor in the gasoline pool) is required to reduce gasoline pool sulfur content. Technologies must meet the following challenges: • Good octane retention • Excellent gasoline yield retention • No RVP increase • Minimum hydrogen consumption • Operational reliability • ...
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Real-Time Measurement for Unparalleled Safety and Product Quality Control. Analyzer solutions to reduce natural gas process downtime, ensure safe operation, and meet stringent product quality requirements. Natural gas is an important part of the world’s energy supply. From feedstock for production processes to generating electrical power, the transportation, distribution, storage, and processing of natural gas has a global impact. Natural gas must meet specific requirements ...
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Real-Time Measurement for Unparalleled Safety and Control Analyzer solutions to reduce process downtime, ensure safe operation, and optimize production efficiency in refinery operations. Process safety and optimized combustion control are essential for operating today's fired equipment through the measurements of excess oxygen (O2) and combustibles (CO+H2). Reliable indication of low-combustion O2is critical to the effectiveness of the Burner Management System in a fired ...
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Avoid unnecessary costs by understanding process problems before taking action
When a piece of process equipment starts experiencing problems and producing off-spec product, every engineer’s reaction is to make a change to “fix” the problem and get it back on-spec. yet, many plants lack adequate instrumentation to completely diagnose the cause of the poor performance. Without a more complete understanding of the root cause of the problem, “corrective action” could have little effect or make the problem worse. Gathering supplemental ...
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Control Valve Solutions for Oil & Gas
The right control valve makes all the difference. Control valves are critical to the overall performance of many oil and gas processes. Ensuring stability and long-lasting process uptime make for safe, reliable and profitable operations. Control valves are the most important part of any process control loop. They are central to the overall performance of your process — especially when reliability and productivity are your primary goals. Finding the best control valve solution ...
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Control valve solutions for severe service
Control valves are a critical element in achieving reliability and accuracy in process control. A full understanding of how the control valve interacts with the process plays a key role in the enhancement of control performance.
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Digitalization manifesto - Now its time
At KBC we believe in a world where plants operate with: No safety incidents, No unplanned outages, Rigorous adherence to operating plans, Agile response to market changes and plant disturbances, A motivated and informed workforce, A culture of profitability. We call this ‘Excellence’. KBC exists to help its customers in the Energy and Chemical industry realize value through achieving excellence. Digitalization is one of the key strategies a plant can adopt in pursuit ...
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Simultaneous analysis of total sulfur and total nitrogen in one single run. ElemeNtS is the most advanced, modular analytical system available for the detection of Total Nitrogen and/or Total Sulfur content in solid, liquid, gaseous materials and LPG samples. ElemeNtS is available in a vertical configuration with direct injection, and horizontal with boat inlet introduction. Both configurations can be equipped with dedicated detectors: ElemeNtS-N for Nitrogen analysis, ElemeNtS-S ...
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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 methods. Through the development of specialist chemical tracers leaks as small as 0.0001% are readily identified. Project Field Test In the following case study, Exchangers A and ...
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Experience the difference - Servomex system integration
Our sole focus is on delivering total system solutions. Combining our extensive industry experience with high-quality analyzer products and unparalleled applications knowledge, we have expert solutions to meet every customer requirement. Our decades of gas analysis expertise are built into every system we produce, with every project based on a proven methodology of processes, applications, specifications, best practices, and quality in design. The result is a system that’s ...
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Flow control solutions for industrial gas applications
We are an industry leader with decades of experience in delivering valves to a wide range of industrial gas applications around the world. We regularly partner with major players in industrial gas. We are committed to providing our customers with a valve portfolio that meets their evolving needs. Reliable performance. We provide reliable, high performance industrial gas flow control solutions. Since the 1970s, we have provided valves and accessories that meet the industry’s ...
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Full Range of SIMDIS Solutions
Boiling point data is a major specification in characterizing petroleum streams. PAC provides complete, turn-key gas chromatographic solutions for accurate determination of true boiling point data, from naphtha up to crude oil samples. By completely automating every step in the analysis, AC SIMDIS applications provide fast and accurate boiling point results. PAC adds unique value to the industry by offering a 100% guaranteed solution, delivered fully factory calibrated, tested ...
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Getting to know our highly innovative solutions
Analytical testing instrumentation AMETEK Grabner Instruments develops and manufactures innovative, fully automated testing equipment for global laboratory, process, and mobile applications
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Harsh rooftop testing ensures the performance of Neles™ valve controllers
Q: How do you verify that your valve controllers will operate in varying field conditions for years? We verify our valve controllers and actuators at our own field-testing system on the rooftop of our Valve technology center in Vantaa, Finland. We have several different types of valve positioners and actuators installed on the roof. This is long-term testing; all of the devices are here in the wintertime in cold temperatures and in the summertime when the temperatures can be ...
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Herzog OptiFlash® Cleveland Open Cup
Easy, safe and accurate flash point determination. PAC’s Herzog OptiFlash is the new benchmark in flash point analysis, fully designed to meet today’s expectations on user convenience, quality and safety compliance. The Optiflash accurately detects flashpoint up to 400°C for petroleum products, lube oil, gear oil, food & beverages, chemicals, and fluxed bitumen. The OptiFlash is fully compliant with leading global standards.
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Herzog OptiFlash® Pensky Martens
Easy, safe and accurate flash point determination. PAC’s Herzog OptiFlash is the new benchmark in flash point analysis, fully designed to meet today’s expectations on user convenience, quality and safety compliance. The Optiflash accurately detects flashpoint up to 400°C for petroleum products, biodiesels, solvents, chemicals, fluxed bitumen and food and beverages. The OptiFlash is fully compliant with leading global standards.
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Accurate flash point determination for low volume samples. The Optiflash Small Scale accurately detects flashpoint in petroleum products, biodiesels, solvents, chemicals, paint varnishes, fluxed bitumen, food and beverages. There are three models available: regular, low temperature and high temperature. The OptiFlash Small Scale is fully compliant with leading global standards.
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Easy, safe and accurate flash point determination. PAC’s Herzog OptiFlash® is the new benchmark in flash point analysis, fully designed to meet today’s expectations on user convenience, quality and safety compliance. The Optiflash® accurately detects flashpoint from -30°C to 120°C for petroleum products, alcohols, solvents, chemicals, food and beverages. The OptiFlash® is fully compliant with leading global standards.
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Governments and businesses are increasingly committed to steep decarbonization targets, establishing hydrogen as a key component in the energy transition. As of this writing, McKinsey reports that 64 countries, representing 89% of global CO2 emissions, have made net-zero pledges, while financial institutions and private sector enterprises also continue to increase their decarbonization aspirations. Going forward, the energy mix is projected to shift toward clean electricity, complemented ...
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Bulk level and density measurement. Designed using innovative scintillator-based technology, Hyperion™ is a non-contact, no moving parts measurement solution that provides accurate and extremely reliable bulk level and density measurements. This enables operators in the oil, gas, petrochemical, refining, pulp and paper and mining industries to solve the most challenging process measurement and control problems. Key features - Self-diagnostics - Repeatable and accurate measurements - ...
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There are many factors affecting GC data precision. Sample introduction parameters are amongst the most critical. A factor easily overlooked is the temperature of the sample and its variances over time in relation to the solvent used. Environmental conditions and heat patterns around the ALS can easily become major contributing factors to performance when very light solvents are used. In Simulated Distillation analyses, heated zones are typically ramped to temperatures above ...
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Gas analysis plays an essential role in cleaner industrial operations for plants and refineries, helping to ensure more efficient processes, support the safe removal of pollutants, and monitoring the harmful emissions to the atmosphere. A high-performance continuous emissions monitoring system (CEMS) is crucial to the safety and efficiency of a wide range of industrial processes, and an essential part of clean air strategies. CEMS installations must offer the highest sensitivity ...
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Jamesbury™ valve and actuator solutions
Premium performance Jamesbury™ solutions offer improved process efficiency and safety on proven and value-driven designs. Jamesbury solutions combine a wide range of valves, valve automation solutions services that exceed customer expectations for performance, value and availability.
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The worldwide recognized leader of jet fuel thermal oxidation testing. PAC’s Alcor JFTOT® is the globally recognized standard for jet fuel thermal oxidation testing with a worldwide installed base over 1000 instruments. With the Next Generation JFTOT IV PAC brings an industry leading product and adds enhanced safety features and simplified operational capabilities in a smaller, streamlined package that significantly increases operator productivity. The Alcor JFTOT IV ...
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Lance Scope™ Hot inspection service
Avoid Furnace Shut Down with Online Fired Heater Inspection. Is there an issue with your high temperature fixed equipment, but you can’t see the cause, or the exact site? We designed and developed Cetek’s Lancescope™ fired heater inspection tool for just this situation. It allows to undertake a high temperature furnace inspection to determine the scope of the problem, often avoiding an expensive shut down of the heater. Cetek’s Lancescope™ system provides real-time, ...
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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 removal of solids, salts and water from crude feedstock. This has become increasingly difficult when processing certain opportunity crudes that can have all of these detrimental ...
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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 technology helped the refinery to identify these deposits at an early stage. Bayernoil operates two FCC Units to convert heavy hydrocarbons. In the FCC Unit the feed is injected ...
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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 for phase, density, bulk level and interface measurement and pipe slugging characterisation. All of our nucleonic instruments are custom designed to the needs of the specific application, ...
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Industry 4.0-ready flash point analyzer. MINIFLASH FP VISION is part of Grabner Instruments Vision analyzer family. The flash point tester MINIFLASH FP Vision combines the field-proven advantages of Grabner analyzers with a convenient touch-screen design. The Industry 4.0-ready instrument fully integrates with enterprise level networks and the COCKPITTM Software for Vision analyzer. KEY FEATURES - Advanced Flash Point Methods Measurements in accordance with the safest flash ...
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MINIFLASH FPA Vision Autosampler
A 12-position autosampler for use with Vision-series flashpoint analyzers. The MINIFLASH FPA Vision autosampler is the latest addition to the Grabner Instruments Vision-series product line, an automated accessory specifically developed for use with any MINIFLASH FP Vision analyzer. Its modular design creates scalability, giving the option to expand with an autosampler at any time. Full-compatibility with Grabner’s Vision-series of flashpoint analyzers allows a single autosampler ...
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MINISCAN IR VISION - top performer in portable fuel analysis
The MINISCAN IR VISION is a high speed, compact and robust FTIR fuel analyzer for the comprehensive and automatic measurement of gasoline, jet and diesel fuels. The analyzer is configured to measure more than 100 fuel parameters and components for fuel blending, for quality inspection and to check compliance with fuel specifications directly at the point of sale. • 100+ preconfigured parameters Compound analysis is performed according to the international standards ASTM ...
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Neles Easyflow high-performance solutions perfectly complement our portfolio with a quality range of pre-engineered products designed for use in many standard applications and process conditions. The portfolio delivers the same high quality and attention to detail that matters most, like you always expect from Valmet. Neles Easyflow solutions offer a complete suite of products designed to work together for easy creation of automated valve assemblies, delivering reliable, ...
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Determine total sulfur and total nitrogen in a single analyzer. With its large installed base, Antek by PAC has proven to be a global leader in lab and on-line elemental analysis instrumentation. Antek pioneered total sulfur and total nitrogen analysis utilizing pyro-fluorescence and pyro-chemiluminescence technology. NSure, uses the same proven technology of its previous model –the 6200– to ensure lab accuracy with process robustness. By utilizing the same technology that ...
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OHL Gutermuth Industrial Valves
Wherever especially high safety standards are essential, perfect solutions are required for shut-off and regulation. OHL Gutermuth Industrial Valves has made a name for itself across the globe with tailor-made valves for specific industrial applications. The combined expertise and decades of experience of two well-established specialist companies, combined with a strong commitment to quality and a high level of personal dedication, are the best prerequisites for mastering future ...
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The benchmark in atmospheric distillation testing. Thousands of users worldwide trust OptiDist™ for its state-of-the-art solution for performing atmospheric distillation, offering the most precision and ease of use. The versatile design enables multi-methods and non-standard capabilities which can easily be adapted for different applications. The testing and results are in full compliance with all atmospheric distillation methods.
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Precision and portability in a top of the line FT-IR fuel analyzer. For more than 20 years, PAC has been at the forefront of infrared (IR) fuel analysis with its PetroSpec products. Now we are combining the best of our GS PPA, TD PPA and QuickSpec capabilities into one analyzer and adding the latest FT-IR technology into the most robust fuel analyzer in the market. The user-friendly system allows the operator to measure many properties at once with a simple touch of a button, ...
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Optimise crude processing with the Profiler™
The Challenge: Refiners aim to optimise feedstock blends to improve margins, but variability can bring significant operational challenges during the process. One critical need is the efficient removal of solids, salts and water from crude feedstock. It is essential that washing of the crude is effective at removing high levels of these, and the oilcan be efficiently separated prior to crude distillation. Efficient separation needs accurate and reliable interface control to manage ...
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Bulk level and interface measurement. Optimus™ is designed for liquid level, interface and solids monitoring in upstream and downstream vessels. Optimus™ is suitable for bulk level measurement in the most challenging oil, chemical and petrochemical industry applications, including those with the potential for solids deposition and extremes of temperature and pressure. Key features - Advanced signal processing - Interchangeable components for easy on-site maintenance - ...
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Fundamentals of Safe Liquid Grab Sampling
Every day, grab (or spot) sampling systems allow oil, gas, and chemical companies around the world to simply and accurately determine the quality and composition of the fluids they process. In many cases, however, opportunities remain to improve the ease-of-use, safety, and maintenance requirements of these system by rethinking aspects of their design. In the case of panels that draw liquid samples into laboratory bottles, changes to valve assembly designs, specifically, can yield ...
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Elemental Analysis for Refining and Petrochemicals
Seamless Laboratory and Process Analysis for Total Sulfur and Nitrogen. As expected shifts to petrochemical and crude oil-to-chemicals (COTC) projects expand through 2050, the need for elemental analysis in refining and petrochemical continues to grow. Refiners must meet stringent requirements due to the increase of nitrogen and sulfur in the crude, requiring more focus on processing and control. Join us to learn about laboratory and process analysis for total sulfur and nitrogen. During ...
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How grab sampling can help improve your plant's safety
While grab sampling can be a dangerous and hazardous process for both operators and their surrounding environment, too often safety takes a back seat to other day-to-day considerations. If this sounds familiar, tune into this sponsored webinar. It's your opportunity to focus on areas in your plant where safety is a concern and learn methods for ensuring sampling that is not only safe and effective, but also representative. In this webinar, you'll examine hazards associated ...
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CDU desalter processing with interface control
In this webinar, you will find out how Tracerco’s advanced multi-phase nucleonic instrumentation can analyse desalter performance and improve crude blending capacity. Discover opportunities to: - Improve environmental impact, compliance and energy usage - Reduce unplanned trips and downtime - Optimise chemical dosing (demulsifiers/neutralisers) - Reduce overhead corrosion, as well as catalyst deactivation in FCC - Improve process control enabling data driven insights With ...
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Best Practice: Screening and QC testing of petroleum products and fuels
Screening and quality control of petroleum products and fuels can be a tedious and expensive process when performed utilizing traditional methods. Near-Infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) as described in ASTM Guidelines E1655, D8340, and D6122 is a much faster method providing results in just 30 seconds without any solvents and reagents needed. In fact, NIRS has become the preferred method of numerous producers to quickly quantify key parameters in petrofuels and petrochemicals ...