Process analytical measurements are vital to all Upstream and Downstream processes.  However, successful process analysis requires not only high performance analytical measurements but also a good sample for analysis.  In the past, conventional tubing based systems were the standard for process sample conditioning systems.  With the advent of modular sample conditioning systems (NeSSI), high performance analytical systems can be implemented without the need for large, utility intensive, sample conditioning system.  Modular sample systems provide a variety of benefits, such as, improved temperature, flow, and pressure control, and direct connection to analytical instruments (e.g. FTIR, Raman, moisture, O2 pH, GC, ...). Modular systems also allow fabrication of transportable sampling systems for pilot plant analysis, not possible with tubing systems.This presentation will detail modular sampling technology benefits compared to conventional tubing based systems, their application in process and the pathway modularity creates for 'at-the-tap' analysis.

Maintaining sample integrity: From pipe to plant to lab

244th National Meeting (2012)

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