↑ Grab this Headline Animator

New Laser Technology Moisture Analyzer Gives UltraFast Detection During...

The presence of even trace amounts of H20 moisture or CO2 can threaten the integrity of processing equipment during compression and liquefaction of the natural gas due to ice formation. Carbon dioxide (CO2) or moisture (H2O) measurements can be used as a leading indicator of breakthrough, but in either case, it is essential to have very fast moisture analyzer (http://www.spectrasensors.com) has revolutionized the measurement of gases in petrochemical streams such as natural gas. The technology employs a simple measurement that uses a fundamental principle: Molecules vibrate when excited by light at specific wavelengths. Therefore, if you can detect how much light is absorbed at these wavelengths, you can precisely measure the concentration of a given gas.

The system consists of a cell that the sample gas flows through, a tunable laser diode that emits a specific wavelength of light through the gas, an optical detector, and software to analyze and output the results.

In the past, LNG and NGL gas processors have relied on surface based analyzers such as electrochemical and quartz crystal cells, to measure trace amounts of moisture in process streams. Although these devices may perform with acceptable accuracy at first, the confidence level in their measurements soon becomes low, due to drift, the inability to recover from high concentrations of moisture, and the tendency for their sensor probes to become desensitized by the gas streams they are measuring. Such situations have led to excessive maintenance and high operational costs.

This natural gas sensor technology, widely considered a new standard in natural gas measurement, is extremely fast and the results are highly reliable. Changes in gas concentrations during dehydration can be seen immediately, without the wet-up and dry-down delays that occur with a traditional moisture analyzer (http://www.spectrasensors.com

Phone (800) 619-2861

Fax: (909) 948-4142

↑ Grab this Headline Animator

---

This article has been robotically scanned and tagged by Prnewsnow with the following search tags. No human manipulation of these tags take place.
| Paratherm | Heat Transfer | heat transfer fluids |

---

4866 readers online...

, Local News