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News Release from: Parker Instrumentation
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 24 July 2007
Parker presents the 'long view' at
OE2007
Parker Instrumentation is presenting a unique perspective on the future of process instrumentation at Offshore Europe 2007, with a novel exhibit running throughout a 16-metre long truck!
One long process pipeline has been equipped with the spectrum of common plant instrumentation, but interfaced using components based on next-generation principles This far-sighted focus from Parker Instrumentation, on innovating instrumentation tube fitting, valve and manifold products, offers implementation approaches with radical reductions in emissions, risk and lifecycle costs
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 18 Aug 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The products on display range from breakthrough advances to high-integrity component building blocks.
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For instance, CCIMS (Close Coupled Instrument Mounting Solution), provides a ready-to-use solution that allows differential process transmitters to be attached directly onto a pipeline orifice plate assembly in less than 30 minutes.
This innovative module typically replaces hand-crafted assemblies of discrete tubing, joint and valve components that can take anywhere from one to three man-days to fabricate.
Such traditional connections, or 'hook ups', can involve 20-30 joints, every one of which is a potential leak path.
The CCIMS solution reduces this to just five - a massive leap in integrity.
CCIMS eliminates the need for 'impulse lines', helping to avoid the common problem of blockages caused by many factors including viscous media, hydrate formation, freezing, and so on.
CCIMS also incorporates a unique interface that allows the instrument to be clipped on, and off the manifold in seconds, instead of undoing threaded connections, tubing joints, or even welds - greatly speeding calibration and repairs!.
In the building block category is a 'push-fit' tube connector called Phastite that operates up to 20,000 PSI / 1379 bar.
Compared with cone-and-thread and welded fittings often used for connections at these pressures, Phastite connectors can reduce installation costs by a factor of 90% or more.
This breakthrough product complements the well-known Parker A-LOK twin-ferrule tube fitting which has set the standard for corrosion resistance in the low to medium pressure arena for many years.
Among a number of brand new products on display for the first time is a manifold range that meets the A rating of the ISO 15848 standard for fugitive emissions.
ISO 15848 effectively sets a 'zero emission' level, and Parker Instrumentation is launching double-block-and-bleed manifold configurations, in either monoflange or low-profile flange-ended forms.
Such advances will be critical in satisfying increasing emissions regulation such as the EU IPPC directive 96/61/EC which comes into force from October 2007.
"Technological advances are proving critical in combating the risk, cost and emissions challenges facing instrumentation system designers today," says the Parker Instrumentation Marketing Manager, Sheldon Banks.
"Too many suppliers believe that progress is simply the continual reduction in the production cost of 'industry standard' fittings, valves and manifolds.
These suppliers are missing the point.
Our display targets a radical change in the thinking of instrumentation system designers, one that says that innovation can extend beyond the high-tech areas of sensors and electronics, and right through the mechanical interface to the process as well".
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