Acquisition Strengthens Established Line of Process Analysers

Modcon Systems (Israel) announced it has acquired Petrometrix Ltd (Israel) along with its affiliates Petrometrix Inc based in Houston, USA. Founded in 1992, Petrometrix Ltd. develops manufactures and markets a new generation of process analysers based on Near Infrared (NIR) technology for the petroleum and petrochemical industries.

The new Beacon 3000 represents a breakthrough in NIR process analyser design. This technology enables the facility to connect of up to 8 process stream sensors (field units) to a single analyser situated in the control room.

The analyser confined from the process environment and requires no explosion proof housing or analyser shelter. The field units use no electricity, contain no moving parts and certified under the ATEX Directive 94/9/EC. The maximum distance between the analyser and the field units can reach up to 3 km (2 miles), which enables to install the field units close to the process.

The unique Freetune software which installed on the analyser compares the analyser readings with the laboratory results and enables the automatic tuning of models if systematic disagreement between results is determined. The guaranteed utilisation factor with this technology is at least 98%.