The MS3’s
unique design comprises a single block and
tube architecture for simplicity and a built-in
flexibility that makes it the perfect solution
for any gas or liquid sample conditioning
system, whether single or multi-stream.
Block system interchangeability (ISA SP76
compliant) combined with pre-welded tube assemblies
and the minimization of required substrate
components add up to significantly reduced
costs and inventories, plus less assembly
and training time as only a single easy-to-use
assembly tool is needed.
As part of the system’s effortless versatility,
unlimited multi-stream and block configurations
easily adapt to any system schematic.
Background
The background to the development of this
breakthrough in analytical instrumentation
design is interesting.
Conventional closed-loop process analytical
systems require collecting a sample and transporting
it to a complex multi-component conditioning
system normally housed in a heated or purged
enclosure that prepares it for injection into
an analyzer, which then provides feedback
to a control system managing the overall process.
Research showed that tremendous savings in
installation, operating and maintenance costs
would be made by shortening the transport
leg and eliminating the need for the analyzer
house as well as simplifying assembly with
the use of easy modularity.
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In fact, executives at Exxon/Mobil deduced
that a modular miniature sample conditioning
system could save $480,000 in one-time installation
costs and then $420,000 every year at just
one typical ethylene plant. So imagine the
astronomical industrial savings if modular
system technology were sold to thousands
of process related plants around the world!
Research into the problem began in 1999
under the umbrella of Washington State University’s
Center for Process Analytical Chemistry,
where numerous focus group discussions helped
identify the need for a better, more efficient
and cost-effective sampling technology.
The New Sampling/Sensor Initiative (NeSSI)
was an ad hoc group of manufacturers and
end-user customers that looked into technology
for modularizing and miniaturizing process
analyzer sample system components. Funding
came from industry and government sources,
with all research conducted by professional
staff.
CIRCOR
takes lead
Although its competitors participated in
the research and findings, CIRCOR has emerged
as the leader in this cutting edge technology,
developing a modular block sampling system
substrate in which the flow is external
to the substrate itself to create a user-friendly,
simple, flexible and low-cost solution for
process sampling.
The
Hoke/GO Regulator MS3 system is positioned
to lead the way
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in offering
a better solution and saving process companies
both installed and maintenance costs.
It also comes with a complete set of surface
mount components which offers the user
versatility and a compact space-saving
design that can be used with vapor, gas
or liquid.
In
addition to flexibility, adaptability
and interchangeability, ease of assembly,
reduced inventories and cost-savings,
the system offers hassle-free troubleshooting
thanks to its external flow path featuring
an elastomeric seal.
All of these features combine to give the
MS3 a decided advantage over competitors.
One of the largest company’s system
has an excessive number of complex components,
requires welding of interconnecting blocks
and also needs milling and drilling of extrusion
blocks to design.
Another well-known company’s system
requires costly drilling of each block, has
inconsistent inlet/outlet ports and is inflexible
in its overall design as well as difficult
to maintain. A third company’s product
needs deep drilling and back-welding of flow
paths, and is also comparatively inflexible
and difficult to maintain, with any system
changes requiring a new substrate.
CIRCOR’s MS3 system specifically
overcomes these problems, providing a
cost-effective total solution that makes
life easier for process companies.
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