BP and Foster Wheeler have requested maintenance free flow meters that offer high repeatability, allowing for advanced unit optimization.
As global energy demand prompts refiners, such as BP, to increase refining capacity and maximize the production of distillates, they are expanding and building new delayed coker units.
“With the strong push on building and upgrading delayed coking units in refineries, particularly those in the U.S., Canada, India, and Eastern Europe, refiners are choosing ultrasonic flowmeters for coker furnace feed flow in new construction to avoid problematic furnace tube clogging and to help optimize their operations,” said Ashish Bhandari, product general manager for flow at GE.
