Steam Trap Monitoring

It is estimated that between 10 and 20% of steam traps malfunction annually even with a regular inspection program.  Problems range from "cold" traps that will not open and create poor quality, hazardous wet steam; to "blowing" traps that waste energy and also cause a hazard.  Conventional, manual inspection of steam traps is a labor-intensive, costly, and error-prone task; nevertheless, it's been the accepted monitoring method, until wireless technology from Accutech developed an efficient alternative.   

 Tank Level Monitoring

Wireless instrumentation can be advantageously deployed in tank level applications.  Continuous level sensors include submersible DP, resistance tape and gauge level.  Point level switches also provide necessary information for impending overfill or tank empty alarms.  With wireless level devices, environmental mandates can be easily and quickly accommodated where it is not unusual to see a single base radio covering level applications for an entire tank farm.

 Safety Shower Monitoring

Getting help to an injured employee can often make the difference between a serious injury and a minor incident.  Unfortunately, the cost to install wired monitoring switches to multiple safety-showers in a major production plant can be extremely expensive.  Wiring monitoring switches entails the cost of running the wires to the switches in the field and also includes the expense of dedicating individual discrete inputs into plant DCS systems and these costs rapidly add up.  Wireless monitoring saves the economic roadblocks.

 Relief Valve Monitoring

The wireless answer to 24/7 leak monitoring.  In the petrochemical and refining fields, process gas is expensive, and often dangerous to the environment.  Continuous monitoring is the only way to identify leaks as soon as they occur, so maintenance can be performed right away.  The expense of running conventional, wire-based 24/7 monitoring, plus the difficulties involved in reaching hazardous locations, pose a challenge that has been hard to solve until now.