CASE STUDY – Emerson ensures process unit safety with TESCOM™ Anderson Greenwood valves: WESTECH

CASE STUDY – Emerson ensures process unit safety with TESCOM™ Anderson Greenwood valves
The refinery upgraded their block-and-bleed instrument valves which provided a safe, uniform, and reliable operation when configuring their pressure gauges, transmitters, and DP meters.

APPLICATION
Petroleum refinery equipment

CHALLENGE
Valves needed to be upgraded during a refinery turnaround. These valves enabled the calibration of the settings in the refinery’s pressure transmitters and gauges and DP meters. The old block-and-bleed valve manifolds were antiquated and had multiple leak points. In addition, the facility had inconsistent valve specifications, material, and soft goods that were not matched to the applications. The refinery needed new block-and-bleed instrument valves that provided safe, uniform, and reliable operation.

SOLUTION
Emerson recommended TESCOM Anderson Greenwood Series M5A gauge valves for the block-and-bleed of the refinery’s instruments and pressure gauges. The compact Series M5A package enabled the customer to standardize on one valve for the configuration of its pressure gauges, transmitters, and DP meters. The valve was roddable in the event it became plugged with solids. In addition, Emerson specified standard GRAFOIL® packing so field technicians did not install Teflon®-packed valves in high-temperature environments. Overall, the solution ensured better safety through process uniformity, and it reduced the number of leak points. The customer was pleased with the Emerson solution and is ordering more valves for its next turnaround.

The TESCOM Anderson Greenwood M5A gauge valve is a 3/8-inch [9.5 mm] orifice multi-port gauge valve. It is designed to be used with gauge mounting and other instrument ties in the process industries, without requiring additional penetrations of the main piping. The M5A provides premium performance and long valve life.

This valve is available with replaceable, roddable, metal or soft seats with 3/8-inch [9.5 mm] diameter orifice. The unique metal seat design, an exclusive feature of Anderson Greenwood, offers bubble-tight shutoff with straight-through flow characteristics.

Call Westech Industrial for more information about our TESCOM AGI valves at (403) 252-8803 or visit our website at https://bit.ly/37Q8ema

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