An Accident Waiting to Happen

1. An accident wait ing to happen?
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2. POTENTIALLY
DANGEROUS
WORK
Heights
Stored
Energy
Confined
Spaces
Toxic
Chemicals
Hazardous
Materials
High
Pressure
High
Temperatures
Fatigue
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3. COSTS
Human
Environmental
Production
Reduction
Insurance
Fines
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4. SAFETY
Training
Procedures
PPE
Automation
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5. Example of a conventional tapping point
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6. Example of Unsafe manual “rodding out” operation
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Plugged tapping point Plugged impulse / purge line
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8. Autorodder Animation
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Examples of a “manual rod-out tool”
“we manually rod out
6,000 times per year”
“there is one FCCU (cat cracker)
spurious outage caused by faulty
or incorrect measurement every
year in continental US, and the
minimum cost is 7 million USD”
- Major oil refinery manager
- Global pressure transmitter manufacturer
“until a blocked tap is cleared,
we have to reduce process
through put by up to 20%, and
this can take up to 3-4 days”
- Refinery senior process controller
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“we have 2-3 false high level
pressure spike per month
which trip out the units”
- Plant I&E engineer

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Examples of a Autorodder installations
“we have gone from 2-3
false high level pressure
spike per month to none”
- Plant I&E engineer
“Another very positive
thing we have found
(design confirmed)
using the Autorodder
is it does not affect
the (pressure) reading
at all when it strokes”
- Instrumentation supervisor
“the Autorodder is a
safe, economical
solution to keeping
tapping points clear on
critical equipment”
- Maintenance superintendent
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“we have reduced out
purge consumption by
nearly 75%”
- Production manager

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Examples of a Autorodder applications
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FCC unit
Main column and regenerator level
Raffinite splitter
Catalyst stand pipe injectors
Precipitator overflow
Regenerator level
Resid fluids on crude unit
Sample points
Coking unit
Coke drum fractionator level
Resid flow meters
Coke drum level
Fluid bed level
Sulphur unit
Analyser points (tail + stack)
Burner eyes
Pilot igniter points
Pyrometer points
Sample points
Injection points
Run down leg
In addition – any pressure instrument points that has a safety, shutdown instrument associated (PSD)

12. Customers
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