Liquids and Gas Applications for Sentry samplers in Oil
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Gas and Liquid Sampling Applications Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Applications Review • • • • • • • Refinery Chemical Wastewater Mining Slurry Pharmaceutical Plastics Milling and other Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Refinery Applications Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Refining An oil refinery is an industrial process plant where crude oil is processed and refined into useful petroleum products. Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Refinery Process Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Common Process Terms • • • • • • • • • • • • LSRG = light straight run gasoline LAGO = light atmospheric gas oil HSRG = heavy straight run gasoline CVGO = combined vacuum gas oil LGO = light gas oil CGO = combined gas oil HGO = heavy gas oil DHGO = Desulfurized or distilled heavy gas oil KERO = kerosene DLGO = Desulfurized or distilled light gas oil CLAGO = combined light atmospheric gas oil LAGO = light atmospheric gas oil Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Refinery Process Simplified • Separation • Conversion • Purification Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers CDU – Crude Distillation Unit • CDU - an atmospheric pressure distillation tower. This unit accepts a variety of crude oils and distills them into the primary products including LPG, naphtha, kerosene, light gas oil and refined crude • Heated crude condenses at various levels in the tower • 250f • 150 psig Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers VDU – Vacuum Distillation Unit • • • Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers VDU or vacuum distillation unit is a vacuum distillation tower. This unit accepts “reduced” crude processed by the CDUs and distills them into the primary products including LPG, naphtha, kerosene, light gas oil and refined crude 700 F typical 100 psig VBC – Visbreaking Unit • • • • Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers VBC or Visbreaker is a thermal cracking unit. This unit accepts vacuum tower “resid” or the very viscous vacuum tower bottoms and uses high heat (800 F) to crack the hydrocarbons into fuel oil, naphtha and light gas oil 800 F typical 100 psig Typically a patented process (UOP, shell) HTU – Hydrotreater Unit • HTU or Hydrotreater uses a recycled hydrogen stream and catalyst to convert sulfur compounds to hydrogen sulfide, nitrogen to ammonia and aromatic hydrocarbons to stronger hydrocarbons. This unit accepts vacuum tower light and heavy gas oil and converts them to gasoline, kerosene and naphtha • 200 F typical • 200 PSIG liquids • 1300 PSIG gases Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers CRU – Catalytic Unit • CRU or catalytic reforming unit removes oxygen, nitrogen and sulfur from naphtha that contaminates the unit’s catalyst and then converts it to gasoline • Up to 500 F typical • 200 PSIG liquids • Typically a patented process (“Unifiner”, etc.) Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers SRU – Sulfur Recovery Unit • • • SRU or sulfur recovery unit converts hydrogen sulfide into elemental sulfur Up to 200 F typical 100 PSIG liquids Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers FCCU – Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers • Fluid catalytic cracker (FCC) uses high temperature and catalyst to crack heavy gas oil mostly into gasoline. Hydrocracking uses catalysts to react gas oil and hydrogen under high pressure and high temperature to make both jet fuel and gasoline • • Up to 200 F typical 100 PSIG liquids Polymerization Unit • • Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Polymerization in the petroleum industry is the process of converting light olefin gases including ethylene, propylene, and butylene into hydrocarbons of higher molecular weight and higher octane number that can be used as gasoline blending stocks. Polymerization combines two or more identical olefin molecules to form a single molecule with the same elements in the same proportions as the original molecules. Polymerization may be accomplished thermally or in the presence of a catalyst at lower temperatures. Alkylation Unit • • • Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Alkylation combines lowmolecular-weight olefins (primarily a mixture of propylene and butylene) with isobutene in the presence of a catalyst, either sulfuric acid or hydrofluoric acid For fuels blending Various process methods Other Processing Units • • • • Amine plant Amine removes sulfur and other impurities Hydrogen plant Recovers hydrogen from the processes and stores it along with additional H2 for hydrotreating LPG - liquid petroleum gas plant Recovers petroleum gas products, refines them and blends them for distribution as a liquid MTBE – methyl – tertiary- butyl- ether plant Generates MTBE from methanol and process gasses Used as a fuel additive Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Typical Sampling Points and Samples Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers CDU – Crude Distillation Unit Sample Name Sample Constituents Phase Temp (F) Pres . psig Recommend Sampler Problems/Concerns Desalter In Crude Oil Liquid 90 70 MVD Liquid Sampler Product waste, environmental, messy Desalter Out Desalted Crude Oil Liquid 200 to 250 70 MVD Liquid Sampler Fumes from chemicals added to break the oil water emulsion (Betz W906), The Betz product requires PPE including respirator if the chemical is about 220 F. Cooler is inefficient and suffers from corrosion. Samples are sometimes hot. Desalter water Water, steam, oil Liquid/Va por 200 130 MVD Liquid Sampler Sample is too hot when a proper flow rate is attained; long sample line runs in 1” O.D. pipe LSRG Gasoline Liquid 100200 150 MVD Liquid Sampler Temperature, “representativeness” of sample, fumes HSRG Gasoline Liquid 100200 150 MVD Liquid Sampler Temperature, “representativeness” of sample, fumes Observed Samples Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers CDU – Crude Distillation Unit LGO Oil Liquid 100200 150 MVD Liquid Sampler Temperature, “representativeness” of sample, fumes HGO Oil Liquid 100200 150 MVD Liquid Sampler Temperature, “representativeness” of sample, fumes KERO Kerosene Liquid 100200 150 MVD Liquid Sampler Temperature, “representativeness” of sample, fumes Resid Out Bottoms Viscous Liquid 90 4060 MVD Liquid Sampler Fumes, mess Caustic Soda Caustic Soda in water Liquid 100 100 MVD Liquid Sampler Hazardous, “representativeness” of sample Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers VDU – Vacuum Distillation Unit Sample Name Sample Constituents Phase Temp (F) Press . (psig) Recommended Sampler Problems/Concerns Gas Oil Oil Liquid 100200 150 MVD Sampler Product waste, environmental, messy KERO Kerosene Liquid 100200 150 MVD Sampler Temperature, “representativeness” of sample, fumes Blended Resid Oil, Vacuum tower bottoms Liquid 200 100 Heavy liquids sampler Sample is too hot when a proper flow rate is attained; long sample line runs in 1” O.D. pipe Vacuum tower bottoms Oil, tar Liquid 540 100 Heavy liquids sampler Sample is too hot when a proper flow rate is attained; long sample line runs in 1” O.D. pipe, location of sample point traps operator, splashes, drain plugging Sour Gas Oil Oil with H2S Liquid 708 46 MVD Sampler Temperature, “representativeness” of sample Observed Samples Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers VDU – Vacuum Distillation Unit Boiler Blowdown Water Liquid 300 150 SL Panel Temperature, “representativeness” of sample, fumes HVGO Oil Liquid 100200 150 MVD Sampler Temperature, “representativeness” of sample, fumes Naphtha Naphtha Liquid 100200 150 MVD Sampler Temperature, “representativeness” of sample, fumes CLAGO Light Gas Oil Liquid 100200 150 MVD Sampler Temperature, “representativeness” of sample, fumes CVGO Heavy Gas Oil Liquid 100200 150 MVD Sampler Temperature, “representativeness” of sample, fumes LAGO Light Gas Oil Liquid 100200 150 MVD Sampler Temperature, “representativeness” of sample, fumes Sour Water Water + H2S Liquid 125 60 MVD Sampler Temperature, “representativeness” of sample, H2S fumes Resid Out Bottoms Viscous Liquid 90 4060 Heavy liquid sampler Fumes, mess Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers VDU- Visbreaker Sample Name Sample Constituents Phase Temp (F) Press . (psig) Recommend Sampler Problems/Concerns Visbreaker bottoms Oil, tar Liquid 460 100 Heavy liquid sampler Sample is too hot when a proper flow rate is attained; long sample line runs in 1” O.D. pipe, location of sample point traps operator, splashes, drain plugging Visbreaker off gas Hydrocarbon gas + H2S Gas 100 40 MCL/MCG sampler “representativeness” of sample, fumes, difficult sample to obtain LVGO Light Gas Oil Liquid 100200 100 MVD Liquids sampler Temperature, “representativeness” of sample, fumes CVGO Heavy Gas Oil Liquid 250 100 MVD Liquids sampler Temperature, “representativeness” of sample, fumes Observed Samples Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers HTU- Hydrotreater Sample Name Sample Constituents Phase Temp (F) Pres s. (psig) Recommended Sampler Problems/Concerns KERO Kerosene Liquid 100200 80 MVD Liquid Sampler Naphtha Naphtha Liquid 100200 80 MVD Liquid Sampler DCGO Gas Oil Liquid 100200 50 MVD Liquid Sampler DHGO Heavy Gas Oil Liquid 200 180 MVD Liquid Sampler DLGO Light Gas Oil Liquid 200 180 MVD Liquid Sampler Temperature, “representativeness” of sample, fumes Temperature, “representativeness” of sample, fumes Temperature, “representativeness” of sample, fumes Temperature, “representativeness” of sample, fumes Temperature, “representativeness” of sample, Hydrogen H2 Gas Ambie nt 1300 MCL/MCG sampler Pressure, “representativeness” of sample, explosive Recycled Process Gas H2 + H2S Gas 100200 1200 MCL/MCG sampler Pressure, “representativeness” of sample, explosive RX Effluent Oil + Gas + H2S Multiphase 100200 100 MCL/MCG sampler Pressure, “representativeness” of sample, fumes Refractionater Off Gas CH4 Gas 100 6 MCL/MCG sampler Pressure, “representativeness” of sample, flammable Charge LVGO + HVGO Liquid 100200 80 MVD Liquid Sampler Condensate Water Liquid 100200 100 MVD Liquid Sampler Temperature, “representativeness” of sample, fumes Temperature, “representativeness” of sample Observed Samples Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers SRU – Sulfur Recovery Unit Sample Name Sample Constituents Phase Temp (F) Pres s. (psig ) Recommended Sampler Problems/Concerns Sour Gas H2S Gas 100200 15 MCL/MCG Sampler Temperature, “representativeness” of sample, fumes, ammonia salts Amine Acid Gas Amine Gas Gas 200 15 MCL/MCG Sampler Temperature, “representativeness” of sample, fumes, ammonia salts Hydrogen Sulfide H2S Gas 100200 150 MCL/MCG Sampler/Drager tube sampler “Representativeness” of sample, fumes Condensate Water Liquid 100200 100 MVD Liquid Sampler Temperature, “representativeness” of sample Observed Samples Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers CRU – Catalytic Reformer Unit Sample Name Sample Constituents Phase Temp (F) Pres s. (psig ) Recommended Sampler Problems/Concerns Aromatics, Paraffins, Naphins, Olefins Kero or Oil Gas Liquid 210 140 Heavy liquid sampler, ISOLOK® Liquid 100 500 MVD liquid sampler Temperature, “representativeness” of sample, fumes, waste (6-8 liters per sample) High pressure, poor location Unifiner charge Naphtha Liquid 210 140 MVD liquid sampler Unifiner stripper bottoms Aromatics, Paraffins, Naphins, Olefins Hydrocarbon gas + H2 Liquid 210 140 MVD liquid sampler Gas 100 380 MCL/MCG Sampler 70% H2 Gas 100 380 MCL/MCG Sampler Observed Samples *Unifiner Bottoms Unifiner Charge Unifiner stripper off gas Platformer Recycle Gas Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Temperature, “representativeness” of sample, fumes, waste (6-8 liters per sample) Temperature, “representativeness” of sample, fumes, waste (6-8 liters per sample) Representativeness” of sample, explosive, waste Representativeness” of sample, explosive, waste LPG – Liquid Petroleum Gas Unit Sample Name Sample Constituents Phase Temp (F) Pres s. (psig ) Recommended Sampler Problems/Concerns Depropanizer Tops Hydrocarbon gas + H2S Gas Unk Unk MCL/MCG Sampler Hazardous, representative Depropanizer Bottoms Hydrocarbon gas + H2S Gas Unk Unk MCL/MCG Sampler Hazardous, representative Caustic Soda Sodium Hydroxide Liquid Unk Unk MVD Liquid sampler Hazardous, representative Depropanizer Off gas Hydrocarbon gas + H2S Gas Unk Unk MCL/MCG Sampler Hazardous, representative Deethanizer off gas Hydrocarbon gas + H2S Gas Unk Unk MCL/MCG Sampler Hazardous, representative Condensate Water Liquid Unk Unk SL Panel Observed Samples Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Amine Units Sample Name Sample Constituents Phase Temp (F) Pres s. (psig) Recommended Sampler Problems/Concerns Lean Amine DEA, H2S Liquid Unk Unk MVD Liquid Sampler Representativeness” of sample, health risk Rich Amine DEA, H2S Liquid Unk Unk MVD Liquid Sampler Representativeness” of sample, health risk Regen Reflux DEA, H2S Liquid Unk Unk MVD Liquid Sampler Representativeness” of sample, health risk Observed Samples Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Simplified Refinery Process Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Other Processing Units • Hydrogen plant • LPG - liquid petroleum gas plant • MVD sampler Marine terminals • MCL/MCG sampler with outage volume MTBE – methyl – tertiary- butyl- ether plant • MCL/MCG sampler ISOLOK® Tank farms ISOLOK® Back purge tank sampler Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Reasons Refineries Sample • Confirm unit operation Quality control and custody transfer between units and customers • • Environmental control and compliance Process control (catalyst, heat exchanger, unit performance) “did I remove enough sulfur?” “Did I get enough C & H out?” • Waste water treatment loading Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Keys to Refinery Sampling • • • • Speed loop Open Cooling (60 C - 149 C) Pressure reduction Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Typical Materials Sampled Refinery Petrochemical/Chemical Cracked Gases Aromatics Liquids Products Organics Plastics Inorganics Fuels Acetylene Benzene Paraffins Gasoline Acids Monomers Nitric Acid Gasoline Propylene Toluene Naphthalene Kerosene Alcohols Solvents Butane Xylenes Gas-Oils Oils Aldehydes Naphthalene Bottoms Amines Aromatics Glycols Ketones Phenols Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers BTX Keys to Refinery Samples • • • • Speed loop Open Cooling (60 °C – 149 °C) Pressure reduction Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Chemicals/Petrochemicals • Acetic Anhydride – Methanol feedstock – Used to make cellulose acetate and plastics – Aspirin & pharmaceuticals • Hazardous to breathe and skin contact • Corrosive • MVD, MFV, MIL Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Chemicals/Petrochemicals • Methanol – Feedstock is coal and natural gas – Used to make acrylic polymers and solvents • MVD, MCG Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Chemicals/Petrochemicals • Acetic acid – Base for aldehydes – Primary production in Asia is for use in composite wood adhesives and other adhesives • MVD, MIL, MFV Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Chemicals/Petrochemicals • Monostyrene – Plastics • MFV, MVD Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Chemicals/Petrochemicals • PX (Paraxylene) – Feedstock is refinery reformate gases – Benzene – Primary use: Polyester • MFV, MVD, MCG Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Why Use Sentry Samplers? • • • • • • Operator safety Environmental safety Sample is representative of the process Easy operation Low maintenance Eliminates spills Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Industry Trends • North America – – • Government low sulfur fuels rules – now and on-going Local environmental and emission requirements – California (bay area air quality management district) International – • All – – – • • Want to meet north America’s rules to sell to market Crude is increasingly sour (high in sulfur) Crude is increasingly harder and more expensive to get See above New processes are being developed to meet the new low sulfur requirements and to make sulfur removal more efficient Fuel blending Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers MVD Sampler With Box and Heater Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers MVD Sampler With Sample Cooler Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers MFV Sampler Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers MCL Sampler Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers MCG Sampler for Gases Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Wastewater Applications Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Wastewater – Process flow Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Typical Sampling Points • Outlet of settling tank • Solids outlet of clarifier • Outlet of digester Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Why Sample in a Wastewater Plant? • Control solids ratios at the digesters – 70% of plant costs deal with the removal of solids – Digesting sludge reduces solids volumes thus, less to incinerate • Improve overall plant efficiency • Cost control • Truck load out verification – Hauling costs are based on lbs of liquid – Control the concentration of solids Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Challenges With Sampling in a Wastewater Plant • Stinky and sloppy job – Spigot under pressure = VERY MESSY! • Manual samples are not representative due to human variances and operators attempt to reduce messes • Dozens of sampling points result in high labor costs and inaccuracies (due to inconsistent composite samples) • Ergonomics (the ideal sample point is not always located in an easily reachable location) Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Why the ISOLOK®? • ISOLOK® is the only sampler that can effectively sample sludge from a pressurized line • Automatically captures fixed sample volume at fixed time intervals providing uniformity and consistency of sample for process control (elimination of human error) • Unit is simple, safe, and reliable • Clean (eliminates material spillage) • VERY low labor costs – Each MANUAL grab sample typically takes 10 minutes (including clean up) every couple of hours – Sampling with the ISOLOK® typically only requires operators to collect the containers ONCE per day! Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Mining Slurry • Abrasive • Corrosive due to acids, bases used to extract minerals • Particle size Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers ISOLOK® in Shell Oil Sands Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Pharmaceutical Applications Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Typical Pharmaceutical Process Flow Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Typical Pharmaceutical Process Flow Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Typical Pharmaceutical Process Flow Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Typical Sampling Points in a Pharmaceutical Plant • Reactor vessels – Top Reactor Sampler • Pipes/tanks – MBP –Tank farms –Process piping • Solvent recovery - MVD Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Reactor Vessel Sampling • ISOLOK® • Top reactor sampler • Back purge tank sampler • HPI sampler Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Reactor Vessel Sampling • ISOLOK® • Top reactor sampler • Back purge tank sampler • HPI sampler Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Reactor Vessel Sampling • ISOLOK® • Top reactor sampler • Back purge tank sampler • HPI sampler Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Reactor Vessel Sampling • ISOLOK® • Top reactor sampler • Back purge tank sampler • HPI sampler Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Pipe / Tank Sampling • Incoming raw material at truck unloading station – Generally sample for custody transfer reasons • Tank farm – Sampling of individual ingredients prior to transfer to the make tank • Process piping – Quality control checkpoints along the process Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Pipe / Tank Sampling Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Pipe / Tank Sampling Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Solvent Recovery Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Why Sample in a Pharmaceutical Plant? • Custody transfer • Process control • Chemical analysis Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Challenges With Sampling in a Pharmaceutical Plant • Obtaining a representative sample from a lined reactor with high process temperature and pressure / vacuum • Extracting sample from a device with a moving agitator • Often requires special materials of construction – Hastelloy, titanium, AL6XN, etc • Many sample points require “closed” sampling to eliminate operator exposure to hazardous conditions Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Why Sentry Samplers? • Wide variety of materials of construction available to satisfy process conditions – Special alloys – Seal materials • Ability to offer closed sampling solutions when required – Needle/septum samplers – ISOLOK®® - exchanged air is returned to process through sample annulus Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Plastics Applications Liquid Resin Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Liquid Resin High performance liquid resin is used in such things as bowling balls, boat hulls, etc. Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Challenges With Sampling in a Plastics Plant? • • • • • Pressure or vacuum isolation Viscosity Carry over Sample port/valve plugging Temperature – During and after sample Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Typical Sample Point • Sample from a jacketed reactor • Sample point is located in a recirculation/speed loop • Sample must remain hot to avoid setting Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Liquid Resin • Sampler is located in an enclosure and is heat jacketed • Sample drops into a container and is allowed to cool and set • Customer takes the sample back to lab and remelts for analysis Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Why the ISOLOK®? • Ability to handle high viscosity fluids • Easily heat jacketed • Can withstand high pressures and temperatures while isolating the process and environment from each other • Automatically takes fixed volume of material at fixed time intervals • Simple, safe, and reliable • Clean (eliminates material spillage) • VERY low labor costs • Provides accurate verification for plant control Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Milling and other Applications • • • • High fructose syrups (corn, beet) Soy oil refining process Byproduct streams Process waste streams Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Why Sample in Milling Processes? • • • • Quality Assurance Custody transfer Process control Effluent discharge regulations Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Why Sample in Milling Processes? • 3-A Designated Samplers – M4KSA – MSA – MSD – MSC – MSE • FDA Components; Seals and materials Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Challenges With Sampling Milling Processes • Process flow volume can vary so sampling frequency must vary accordingly • Process chemicals require exotic materials for wetted components • Manual samples are not representative due to human variances and operators attempt to reduce messes • Dozens of sampling points result in high labor costs and inaccuracies (due to inconsistent composite samples) • Ergonomics (not always feasible to sample proportionally with the operation of other process equipment) Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Why the ISOLOK®? • • • • • Simple, safe, and reliable Uniformity and consistency of sample Elimination of human error Clean (eliminates material spillage) Can be controlled to proportionally operate with other process equipment • Provides accurate verification for plant and governmental control Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Dairy Applications Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Typical Sampling Points in Dairy Application • Raw milk receiving at truck unloading dock –Close to milk pump discharge Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Why Sample in Dairy Applications? • Payment calculation for farmer – Butter fat content – Protein – Other solids • Bacteria level • Hormone levels (BGH) • Antibiotics Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Challenges With Sampling in Dairy Applications • Equipment must be 3-A compliant – (Section 59-00 of 3-A code) • Must be easily removed and cleaned without the use of tools • Sample should be taken proportional to flow rate to ensure sample is representative of the entire truckload • May require sampler to turn on/off with milk pump Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Why the ISOLOK®? • Sentry is the only U.S. Based manufacturer with section 59-00 3-A approval – (Model M4-KSA and MSA samplers) • Unit can be easily removed and cleaned without the use of tools • Sampler automatically takes small fixed volume per stroke (typically 3cc) frequently throughout the entire truck unload process to ensure sample composite is representative of the entire truckload Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Dairy Applications Sentry Equipment Corp Sampling Solutions • Specialty Heat Exchangers Questions? 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