Coker Valve Monitoring in a Refinery - Application Note

CAS DataLoggers provided the measurement and control solution for a large manufacturer of valve systems used in many different industries. The company produces ball, needle, choke, control, gate, and other types of valve systems with many different diameters. One of its customers was a refinery using a custom 3-way switching valve in order to direct oil flow into different coking towers. However, the operation of the valve was periodically unreliable and caused costly shutdowns in the refining process. Therefore, a reliable coker valve monitoring solution capable of connecting to many different kinds of sensors was needed to monitor the correct operation of the valve with high accuracy and automatically analyze the data. This device would also need to be simple to configure and operate as well as include data analysis software and a modular design to accommodate possible expansion to add more input and output channels in the future.