REXA has been the leader in Electraulic Actuation™ methods over the years. In fact, they invented the method!

Their latest target is helping those with rotating equipment who are experiencing nuisance trips, large RPM swings, and hydraulic oil contamination by delivering a complete solution and not just a new actuator.

REXA’s Rotating Equipment Total Performance Solution includes: scope of evaluation and supply and commissioning support. The scope of evaluation and supply phase encompasses an evaluation of the existing system and site to gather technical information and measurements. From here sizing and mounting design and fabrication are taken into account. With this information They’re able to provide a fully engineered retrofit/upgrade solution to suit your needs.

The commissioning support you receive in this program includes: on-site TAR supervision and support, mechanical and electrical

Tank farms are home to extremely large networks of pipe and valves that controls the flow of a range of material and powers much of our economy. These tanks are storing extra material not yet needed at a refinery, awaiting pipeline, rail or marine transport to a final destination, and sometimes stored until needed by the pipeline operator to eventual end user.

Valves are specified to the exact function they are required to perform, including the operating pressure and service conditions they must function under.Another requirement, of nearly all hydrocarbon service valves inside a terminal must be fire-safe.

Being fire-safe is only applied to the valve after it’s original design has undergone special test protocol which mimics a fire situation (extreme heat to rapid cooling). A tested valve should still able to retain some closure capability after being exposed to extreme these extreme conditions. Metal seated ball valves fall under the fire-safe as do metal-to-metal seated valves (i.e. gate and globe valves).

With asset management, those who work in refineries or petrochemical complexes need to pay more attention to control valves. As an integral part of plant operations, control valves are critical to ensure proper, continuous, and efficient plant operations.

Since control valve data is driven by process data, the chosen solution determines the ramp up rate and performance of the plant.

Replacing failed parts that are critical to control valves is expensive, but not nearly as pricey as the total cost of lost production encountered during downtime to replace these parts.

Knowing the control valves’ wellbeing in real time along with being able to predict impending failure is important. Having this capability enables you to preemptively address primary unexpected emergency downtime that could potentially cause

While we still have two months left in the year, these next two months will come and go in the blink of an eye. We’re busy with family and work but it’s also a good time to take a step back and learn something new or refine existing skills.

We’re offering three different courses this month, read on to learn more. Our 101 schools are a great extension of our popular instrumentation courses, ideal if you work with certain applications more often!

Level School 101

• Work with various level instrumentation technologies for a variety of applications;Set up and commission level instruments from point level switches to radar gauges;
• Use on-board and PC based tools to verify the health of the instrument and its signals; and
• Diagnose and correct problems with capacitance, ultrasonic, D/P and radar level systems

Having a Process Training Unit (PTU®) in our Edgemont HQ is a very good training resource! However, sometimes it can be difficult to get out of work for a training, let alone drive a fair distance to get there. The goal of having remote training and seminars is to help make Eastern Controls more accessible to you! So for our first October event we hosted a day of educational and hands-on sessions for our customer base in the Richmond-Washington D.C. area.

This event, on October 3rd, was hosted in our Ashland, Virginia location and ranged in topics from self-cleaning and industrial ball valves to polyethylene storage tanks. Our event attendees were just as diverse ranging from experienced power plant personnel to government employees to chemical engineers. Everyone left our site with insight into industry trends and best practices every session was followed-up with solid Q&A!

We had our second event the