Higher plant availability with maintenance free flowmeter
Prevent unplanned shutdown with 2-wire Coriolis flowmeter Promass E 200 in LPG processing plant
Mechanical flowmeter with moving parts will wear over time and constantly need time and cost for maintenance. Coriolis flowmeter could provide accurate and reliable measurement with reduced maintenance effort to assist our customer to produce high quality product with low operational cost.
Results
Coriolis flowmeter with no moving part offers higher plant availability and reduced maintenance efforts.
• Best-fit instrument with intrinsic safety & providing reliable data and safety to the process
Challenge
Mechanical flowmeter with moving parts will wear over time and constantly need time and cost for maintenance.
Our Solution
Compact loop-powered Coriolis flowmeter, Promass E 200 with pipe spool could easily match the PD flowmeter face to face length without any pipe modification needed.
Coriolis flowmeters have been used for decades with great success. This measurement technology could simultaneously measure mass flow, density and temperature.
Benefits
Accurate mass flow measurement with no moving part.
Reduce maintenance cost and time – increase plant availability
Loop-powered coriolis flowmeter could reuse PD flowmeter cable to power up the flowmeter – no extra cable need to be laid
Safe plant operation with intrinsically safe design (Ex ia) flowmeter
Flowmeter with self-diagnostic according to NAMUR recommendation NE107 to prevent unplanned shut down
Process Description
The customer is one of the crude oil refinery in Malaysia. The supply and return of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) to and fro the LPG processing plant were measured with 3 units of positive displacement (PD) flowmeter. PD flowmeter is a volumetric flowmeter with moving parts subjected to wear hence influence the flow measurement accuracy. Usually filter is installed before the flowmeter and frequent cleaning is needed to prevent flowmeter clogging and causing production down time.
Component
Loop-powered coriolis flowmeter Promass E 200
• Loop-powered technology
• Compact design
• Process temperature: -40 to +150°C
• Developed to SIL 2/3 (IEC 61508), Hazardous Area Approvals, PED, CRN
• Nominal diameters: DN 8 to 50