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Applications, contracts and
product information on
electric and fluid power
valve actuators from
Rotorks worldwide sales
and service organisation
Rotorks complete global offering . . .
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Rotork is playing a key part in the expansion of the Explorer
Pipeline, a 1400 mile products pipeline that delivers petrol,
diesel and jet fuel from the Gulf Coast to several midwestern
USA states and the city of Chicago. Based in Tulsa, the
Explorer Pipeline owners are constructing twelve new pump
stations, modifying a further twelve existing pump stations
and building a 500,000 barrel storage terminal at Illinois in
order to increase system throughput by 47 million barrels
annually.
Over 50 years of operation was
simulated in a three month time
frame.
Part of the project involves the replacement of existing gate valves and
hydraulic actuators with new ball valves and electric actuators that
operate within 10 seconds.
Explorer decided to validate the performance of the large 24inch Class
600 ball valves and Rotork IQ electric actuators by commissioning our
agent in Tulsa, Flow Quip, to conduct a comprehensive test
programme. Flow Quip designed a PLC controlled test rig that
simulated actual operating conditions by operating the valve against
1000psi unbalanced differential pressure. The valve was cycled 44
times in a two hour period with additional cycles spread over the
remaining 22 hours to achieve a total of 500 operations a day. Over
50 years of operation was simulated in a compressed three month
time frame.
At the conclusion of the test programme the actuator had delivered
over 20,000 cycles and, on inspection, was found to be ready for
more. IQ-Insight software was utilised during the test to monitor valve
and actuator performance and develop trends for analysis. Successful
completion of the test led to a purchase order for more than 130
Rotork IQ actuators.
The Rotork actuator delivered over
20,000 cycles and, on inspection,
was found to be ready for more.
Rotork IQ with Insight software
validates valve and actuator
performance for Explorer Pipeline
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Insight software was utilised to

develop trends for analysis.
Twenty-two IQ intelligent
electric actuators with
Foundation Fieldbus
connectivity have been installed
on new pump station and clear
well plant at the Glenmore
Water Treatment Plant serving
areas of Calgary in western
Water treatment with
Foundation Fieldbus
Canada. The photo illustrates
how easy it is to commission,
interrogate and confirm all the
settings of an IQ actuator
using the non-intrusive infra-
red interface linked to a laptop
computer with IQ-Insight
software.
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Rotork electric valve
actuators have been used
throughout a 55 million
West of Scotland Water
new build project designed
to introduce the most up-
to-date waste treatment
technologies for the
benefit of the Greater
Glasgow area.
Central to the scheme known
as the Greater Glasgow Solution
is a new sludge treatment centre,
designed and built by Va Tech
Wabag UK Ltd. at Daldowie.
Capable of handling an annual dry
solids load of up to 65000
tonnes, the new plant processes
sludge from other treatment
works in the area, including
Shieldhall, where a new pumping
station has also been built. The
thermally dried sludge produced
is used as a waste derived fuel for
a nearby power station.
The recently constructed scheme
also handles up to 570m
3
(tonnes)
of liquid effluent per hour, which
is treated in aeration/membrane
bioreactors, enabling it to be
discharged into the River Clyde in
an environmentally clean
condition. Nearly 100 Rotork
actuators have been installed in
the new plant at Daldowie and
Shieldhall. The majority are IQ
units operating knife gate and
wedge gate valves, together with
AQ units operating butterfly and
ball valves.
Rotork helps to achieve the
Greater Glasgow Solution
Steve Podger from Rotork Fluid
System in Singapore provided
an update on these GP/D-HP
high pressure gas actuators
installed on Class 600 Tormene
ball valves on the West Natuna
Gas Pipeline. Owned by
SembGas Singapore, this new
pipeline carries gas for 600
kilometres from the West
Natuna Field in Indonesia to
Jurong Island, Singapore.
Rotork Fluid System supplied 28
actuators, equipped with MB1
limit switch boxes, to operate 10
inch to 30 inch ball valves using
gas from the pipeline at 30, 42
and 50 barg pressures. As
shown in the picture below,
some of the actuators are
completely enclosed in Rotork
Fluid System designed fireproof
boxes.
Mark Neilson, Rotork sales
engineer for Scotland,
carrying out final
commissioning checks on
some of the valve actuator
installations at Daldowie.
Fluid System
actuates
Singapore gas
pipeline
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Actuation
News
Jordans specialised actuator designs and
services added to Rotork product range
Rotork now offers an established and comprehensive
range of specialist electric and electro-hydraulic linear,
rotary and lever arm actuators that further extends our
"one stop shop" industrial valve actuation capabilities.
The purchase of Jordan Controls Inc. enables us to offer a large range
of innovative actuator designs that has been developed for the
operation of specialised control valves, dampers, diverters, flap valves
and gates. These products are well established in industries including
power generation, oil and gas, coal, water and waste, pulp, paper and
chemical processing, particularly in the USA, South America and China.
Under Rotork ownership, these products will be further developed and
marketed internationally through our worldwide network of subsidiary
companies and agents.
Complementing existing ranges of Rotork heavy duty valve actuators
and control products, the Jordan actuator range encompasses electric
and electro-hydraulic designs, mostly used for modulating and high
speed valve or non-valve duties. Recent examples of applications
include grain elevators, steel industry furnace dampers, power industry
fan inlet vane dampers and air shroud dampers, cement industry flap
gates and water industry butterfly control valves. The actuator
products are supported by a range of dedicated control accessories,
including position transmitters and servo-amplifiers, and are often
supplied as customised packages to suit specific applications.
Jordans product range
Above:
Jordan Controls headquarters and production plant is situated in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Jordan Controls has a longstanding track
record of success serving the power
industry - an important segment for
Rotork. Likewise, Rotork has a well
established international marketing arm
that can help Jordan grow its worldwide
sales. Bob Arnold - President,
Rotork Controls Inc.
Above: LA2000 Long
Stroke Linear Actuator
Left: SM1000/MV1000
Stepper Motor Product
Below:
SM1700/SM6000 Large
Quarter-turn Actuators
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Rotork valve actuators for
DeviceNet open networks
meet the latest ODVA
standards
Water for New York is supplied
from a reservoir network that is
being constantly upgraded and
improved. As new structures
and dams are built, ways of
maintaining the flows into the
streams that were once fed by
the watershed are being
designed in order to support
the wildlife that they maintain.
In addition, a reliable and
controlled means of lowering
reservoir levels over a
predictable period of time is
essential to defend against
the risk of flash flooding.
The Rotork package utilises
the Pakscan llS sequencer
master station to monitor
reservoir levels, watch over
the security of the system and
control the flow rate into the
streams that are being fed.
A complete picture of actuator and
valve status including valve
position, torque generated and
alarms present is available to the
system controller.
Rotork helps to monitor
the level of
New Yorks
water supply
The first of what is expected to be
several Rotork installations has
now been commissioned at the
West Branch Dam, using nine IQ
intelligent electric actuators to
automatically control very large
gate and ball valves in response to
data including signals from level
sensors. The Pakscan master
station is housed within a Rotork
designed cabinet which includes a
display monitor for the Rotork
In-Vision software that provides a
real-time graphical display of
system status, position and
availability.
The Rotork system ensures that,
irrespective of rainfall amounts,
the streams will always
have a water source,
whilst the reservoir level
can be maximised when
the streams do not
require topping up.
Rotork electric valve actuators are now available with the
Rotork DeviceNet module, enabling them to be controlled over
low cost networks using the popular DeviceNet protocol.
Rotork's design is to the latest Open DeviceNet Vendors
Association standards and applies to our entire current range
of multi-turn and quarter-turn electric actuators, including the
modulating versions.
The Rotork DeviceNet module is
fitted within the environmentally
sealed actuator enclosure for
optimum reliability. The module
can be factory fitted in new units
or is easily retrofitted on in-service
actuators.
Direct DeviceNet connectivity
provides process control
information as well as important
diagnostic data that would
otherwise not be accessible over
a conventional hardwired system.
A complete picture of actuator
and valve status including valve
position, torque generated and
alarms present is available to the
system controller. In addition four
digital outputs are provided as
well as the standard open, stop,
close and emergency shut-down,
whilst one general analogue input
is also available for customer
connection to an external signal.
To ensure easy integration with
even the simplest DeviceNet
equipped host, the data reported
from each actuator is contained
within an 8 byte string and control
output data is similarly contained
within a 4 byte string to keep data
transactions to a minimum.
The addition of DeviceNet to our
list of open fieldbus registrations
provides Rotork with the largest
offering of control options
available from any manufacturer of
heavy duty valve actuators. We
are already registered to the latest
standards of Foundation Fieldbus
and Profibus, have direct
Modbus communication modules
and also offer our well known
proprietary Pakscan two-wire
control systems.
DeviceNet is popular with
the utility industries. Visit
www.rotork.com to
download the brochure
and installation manual.
Rotork IQ electric valve actuators with Pakscan two-wire
sequence control systems and InVision software have
been selected to perform important environmental
protection duties involving level and flow control on the
water supply system supplying New York city.
The Rotork-designed cabinet houses
the Pakscan master station and
displays the information provided by
InVision software.
Left:
Topping-up at the West Branch Dam
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Rotork wins $multi-million

Canadian oil industry contracts for
electric and fluid power actuators
The Athabasca Oil Sands project
consists of two main components,
the $ 1.8 billion Muskeg River Mine,
located 75 km north of Fort
McMurray and the $ 2.3 billion
Scotford Upgrader, adjacent to
Shell's refinery at Fort
Saskatchewan. The project is
funded by a joint venture formed by
Shell Canada Ltd, Chevron
Resources Ltd, and Western Oil
Sands Inc. At both sites Atco
Power Canada is building co-
generation power plants to meet
the energy needs of the projects,
the balance of the electricity
generated being sold to the Alberta
power grid.
Rotork Canada secured an
exclusive purchase agreement for
isolating control valve actuators at
the Muskeg River Mine,
encompassing a total of 290 IQ
range intelligent electric actuators
and 102 pneumatic designs. The
majority of the actuators are being
mounted on Pibiviesse ball valves,
Tricentric high performance
butterfly valves and DeZurik knife
gate valves at Rotork's facilities in
Calgary.
When production starts in late
2002, the mine will produce
155,000 barrels per day of
bitumen, extracted from oil sands
that are removed from just below
the surface and mixed with warm
water to separate the oil. Most of
the Rotork actuated valves will be
used on froth flotation treatment,
the final separation process of the
bitumen from the oil sands. More
than 100 of the actuators are being
supplied with factory-fitted K-Mass
fireproofing, enabling them to be
operated in an emergency at
ambient temperatures in excess of
1000C.
Athabasca Oil Sands
Rotork is supplying several hundred electric and pneumatic
valve actuators and control systems throughout an
extensive oil production development in northern Alberta.
At the Scotford Upgrader site,
Rotork is supplying 122 IQ electric
actuators, 28 of which are
certified for Group B hydrogen
service, Rotork being one of only
two manufacturers having this
enclosure rating in Canada.
At the 170 megawatt Atco co-
generation plant at Muskeg River,
electric and pneumatic actuators
are being supplied by Rotork's
companies in Canada and the
USA. The pneumatic actuators
are equipped with Rotork
designed control systems and
panels, giving the customer local
control and monitoring of the
pneumatic actuators. For the
entire Athabasca Oil Sands
project, the total value of Rotork's
contracts is expected to be in
excess of $ 3.5 million.
Rotork Canada has also signed a purchase
agreement with the Canadian company that
is the worlds largest producer of crude oil
from oil sands. Syncrude Canada Ltd of
Alberta is currently investing $8 billion on
capital investment projects, collectively
called Syncrude 21, for which Rotork is
supplying electric and pneumatic actuators.
Plant startup is planned for 2004, and will
increase production by more than 100,000
barrels a day.
Rotork Canadas scope of supply includes
IQ intelligent electric actuators together with
linear and quarter-turn pneumatic actuators.
The actuators will be packaged with control
components and mounted onto valves at
Rotorks Calgary centre of excellence.
Image courtesy Syncrude Canada Ltd
Left: Computer generated images of
the pneumatic control package
designed by Rotork for the Atco
cogeneration plant at Muskeg River.
Above: Final adjustments being made
to an IQ12 actuator at the Calgary
centre of excellence, prior to delivery to
site.
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Oil, water
and power
generation
in China
Recent contract successes for
Rotork in China encompass all
three of our main market areas
for valve actuators.
In 2001 Rotork's Beijing office
secured orders for the largest oil
production pipeline project in
China. Starting at Lanzhou in
Gansu Province, the pipeline will
extend over more than 1000
kilometres to reach Chengdu City
in Sichuan Province. So far,
Rotork has received orders for
more than 400 IQ electric
actuators from manufacturers of
gate valves and ball valves in
China, Europe and the USA.
Actuators for the ball valves are
fitted with Exeeco IW gearboxes.
In another oil industry project, at
the beginning of this year Rotork
Shanghai won an order for 86 IQ
actuators for a new storage tank
farm being built at Xiaoshan.
Meanwhile, Rotork Beijing is also
supplying over 200 IQ electric
actuators for the Yantai Water
Supply Project. The actuators
are being fitted to Shashi and
Tieling butterfly valves for
installation on reservoirs at
Menlou, Wangku and Wanghe.
Finally, Rotorks Hong Kong office
has successfully won the order
for 136 IQ electric actuators to
be installed at the Leiyuejiang
Power Plant.
Middle East
oil and LNG
Rotork Italy has been awarded an
order from the Japanese
contractor Chiyoda for Stage 3 of
the Ras-Laffan LNG plant in
Qatar. The order involves more
than 50 IQ electric actuators for
installation on various valve types,
including cryogenic designs.
Rotork Italy has also been
selected to supply 75 IQ
actuators to the Aramco Ras
Tanura plant in Saudi Arabia,
continuing Rotorks long-
standing association with one
of the largest oil industry
installations in the Middle East.
Contract
News
Rotork is supplying IQ electric, together with P, SP, GP, LP and rack &
pinion fluid power actuators on this project. All the actuators are being
installed on valves and tested at the Rotork Calgary centre of
excellence, where the pneumatic control packages have also been
designed and built.
The new plant, including a 30,000 barrel per day heavy oil facility and a
170 megawatt cogeneration facility, will increase production capabilities at
Cold Lake by up to 25%. The facility is one of the largest in-situ oil sands
operations in the world, with annual production quoted at 45 million bbls.
Installations under way
at Imperial Oil Mahkeses
On site installation of a total of 161 Rotork actuators is under
way at the latest Imperial Oil Resources Ltd. Mahkeses Project
at Cold Lake in Alberta.
Installation work at Cold Lake, showing:
Right - GP range quarter-turn failsafe
pneumatic actuator.
Below - LP range linear pneumatic
actuators.
Below right - IQ70 electric actuator.
Bottom - P range quarter-turn failsafe
pneumatic actuators.
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The power station had suffered
from a lack of maintenance and
spares for most of its working
life. Consequently, most of the
actuators were in a very poor
condition and the opportunity
was taken to upgrade to Rotork
units when replacing those that
were beyond repair. Five
actuator technicians from
Exeeco carried out the work,
assisted by local staff from the
stations owner KEK. Exeeco
also carried out on-site training
of the station staff on the new
products.
Following successful completion
of the project, several engineers
from Kosovo visited the UK for a
training course on UK power
station operations and
processes, funded by the
European Agency for
Reconstruction.
Whilst in the UK the engineers
visited Exeecos
factory to inspect
the Rotork
Skilmatic electro-
hydraulic actuator
product range,
which has been
proposed for the
replacement of
pneumatic
actuators on the
boiler spray control
valves at Kosovo B.
Skilmatic actuators
would continue to
provide the failsafe
Rotork helps KosovoB
back to life
operation required, powered only
by a 110V.a.c. supply rather than
the existing air supply system
with its inherent maintenance,
cost and reliability concerns.
Skender Kreli from KEK
expressed his companys
appreciation of Exeecos efforts.
He said: We will have no
hesitation in using Exeeco and
Rotork products on any future
outages.
Top:
Kosovo B power station.
Above:
Ian Elliott from Exeeco instructs
station engineers on the new Rotork
actuators installed at Kosovo B.
Right:
Ismet Miftari, Kosovo B boiler
engineer inspects the Rotork
Skilmatic actuator range at the
Exeeco premises.
Bottom:
Ferrybridge Power Station
We will have no hesitation
in using Exeeco and
Rotork products on any
future outages.
Skender Kreli, KEK.
Exeeco has won contractors safety awards at Aberthaw, Ferrybridge
and Fiddlers Ferry Power Stations for performing on-site work in high
risk areas safely and without accidents. The awards, rewarding
excellence in health, safety and environmental issues, are assessed
on criteria including risk, method statements, work face audits, on-
site cabin inspections, accident statistics and near hit reports,
combined with a positive involvement in safety culture.
Exeeco wins safety
awards from three
UK power stations
Rotork company Exeeco has played a leading part in the
reconstruction of the power industry in Kosovo. Working for
Innogy during an eight week shutdown, Exeeco has performed
the in-situ inspection and off-site overhaul of approximately
200 electric, hydraulic and pneumatic valve actuators at the
339 MW Kosovo B Power Station.
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These specially modified 'A'
range heavy duty actuators were
recently supplied by Rotork Italy
for a particularly demanding,
high temperature oil refining
application.
The ESSO refinery in Belgium
was installing a new type of
valve on its Powerformer
ESSO relies on Rotork when the heat's on
catalytic cracking plant, where
heavy hydrocarbon products are
reduced to produced light oils
and petroleums. This process is
performed at a temperature of
approximately 600C, causing
severe wear and corrosion on
the valves involved, which
therefore have only short
Petrleos de Venezuela S.A.
(PDVSA) operates approximately
eleven thousand oil wells within the
Lake Maracaibo area, ten thousand
in the lake itself and the rest on land
in the coastal area. The production
from batches of an average of
seventy individual wells is pumped
to unmanned flow stations, or
platforms, for onward shipment.
A very important activity, in the
hands of the PDVSA Operations
Department, is the continuous
monitoring of each well's
production efficiency and quality
parameters. This is achieved by
obtaining production figures
(barrels/day) and quality information
Valve automation?
Q Rotork and
Pakscan!
Luis Benedetti from Rotork Venezuela
reports on a major upgrade
programme in the country's oil
industry.
(water and sand content) from
every one of the 11,000 wells,
every month. These figures
determine the condition of each
well and are used to plan
maintenance programmes.
Until 1993, this massive data
collection task was performed
manually by personnel who,
because of the distances involved,
often needed to travel for 90
minutes by speedboat to reach just
one platform. There then followed
the lengthy process of manually
switching each well flow between
production and test lines and
registering the corresponding data.
In the middle of that year, following
One of the many flow station valve manifolds on Lake Maracaibo that
have been automated with Rotork Q range actuators and Pakscan
two-wire control.
lengthy and weighted technical and
economic considerations as well as
careful testing and analysis of
available equipment, PDVSA began
the process of automating the
procedure, using Rotork actuation
and two-wire control technologies
from day-one.
Existing valves were replaced with
three-way plug valves, operated by
Rotork AQ and Q range quarter-
turn actuators and Rotork Pakscan
two-wire digital control loops were
introduced in order to dramatically
reduce the wiring costs associated
with valve communication. All the
valves on each platform are linked
on a single loop to a Pakscan IIE
masterstation that is connected to
a PLC through an RS485 port.
Each PLC is connected to an
RTU that reports by cableless
microwave link to the SCADA
system located on land at the
Operational Headquarters.
Since 1993 Rotork has automated
over 3000 wells on 42 platforms,
using Q300, AQ830 andAQ860
actuators. Over the next four
years, more than 60 additional
platforms are included in PDVSA's
automation plans.
working lives and need regular
replacement. In order to prolong
the service life of these valves,
engineers from Ring'O Valves
have developed special forged
steel valve bodies, offering
advantages over the cast steel
valves traditionally used on this
service, such as the removal of
casting defects and
microporosities that can lead to
internal surface cracking and
valve failure.
Another problem involving the
operation of the valves is thermal
expansion caused by the high
temperatures. Dramatically
heating a fully closed valve
creates enormous stresses that
can cause stem distortion or
even destroy the valve body,
unless a way is found to
dissipate the effects of
expansion. Conversely, a valve
that is closed when very hot and
then allowed to cool down may
open slightly enough to cause
potentially dangerous leakages.
To overcome these problems the
Rotork actuators were fitted with
thrust limiting bases that act like
dampers to absorb the thermal
expansion without altering the
valve position. Specially
designed springs permit linear
movement of the valve stem as
the valve heats or cools to
safeguard valve and process
integrity.
Actuators were supplied to
operate sixteen, 16" Class 600
valves, requiring an
opening/closing torque of
1340Nm.
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Contract
News
Shells consultant Trident
Engineering called in Rotork to
survey the actuators and valves
held in store by Shell with a view
to using some of them for the
Jarrow project. The survey
enabled Rotork to identify
fourteen suitable A range
Syncropak 1600 Series units
dating from the 1980s that were
then shipped to the service
workshop at Bath for
modification. Engineering work
involved installing Pakscan llE field
units within the actuators
environmentally sealed enclosures
Rotork Retrofit is motorising 26
manually operated valves at the
Innogy Aberthaw power station as
part of an automation upgrade
that includes the introduction of
DeviceNet connectivity at the
station site. The project involves
the steam drain valves at
Aberthaw Unit 8, where Retofit is
installing IQ and AQ electric
actuators and, in some cases,
also supplying new valves.
Retrofit is installing a Rotork
Pakscan controlled automation
system involving 20 IQ electric
valve actuators and Exeeco
gearboxes on the chilled water
pipework system in the Channel
Tunnel. The new actuators will
control the valves on 200
kilometres of 400 mm pipework
that removes atmospheric heat
generated by the trains in the
tunnel.
Due to the distances involved, the
Retrofit contracts incorporate digital control
Retrofit power station
upgrade introduces
DeviceNet
Channel Tunnel
cooling plant gets
Pakscan upgrade
All the actuators are factory fitted
with Rotork DeviceNet modules
to provide a control and
diagnostic link to an Allen Bradley
PLC supervisory system.
Innogys Paul Wilson explains:
We are using the opportunity of
this Rotork automation upgrade
to introduce the control features
and advantages available from
DeviceNet.
pipework automation system will
be divided into three sections,
each under the control of
individual Pakscan llS sequencer
master stations and touch screen
interfaces. Pakscan will provide a
seamless interface with the
existing Modbus highway that is
connected to the tunnel operators
PLC, enabling the status of the
entire pipework network to be
monitored and operated from a
central point.
Shell chooses
retrofit with a
difference
and reconditioning them as
necessary to ensure that they
were all in as new condition.
Meanwhile, Retrofit engineers
were busy on-site installing the
Pakscan llE master station in a
control station, complete with
control panel, event log, printer
and uninterruptable power
supply. The control panel
displays real-time operating data
and schematics generated by
Rotork In-Vision software,
including pump control data and
high high level alarms from
Pakscan general purpose field
units.
Rotork service
centres perform many
complementary
retrofit activities, such
as fitting actuators on
new valves, to the
highest quality
standards.
Here, a butterfly valve
is being equipped
with the latest IQ
intelligent actuator for
an extension upgrade
at a UK water
treatment plant
We are using the opportunity of
this Rotork automation upgrade to
introduce the control features and
advantages available from
DeviceNet.
Paul Wilson, Innogy.
In a new twist on conventional retrofit activity, Shell
has been able to supply its own actuators to Rotork
for reconditioning, modification and installation on a
Pakscan automation project at the Shell Jarrow tank
farm.
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News
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. . . and actuates
"largest ball valves
ever supplied into
Asia Pacific"
This photograph, taken at the
Exxon Singapore Refinery,
shows Rotork IQ electric
actuators fitted to "the largest
ball valves ever supplied into
Asia Pacific", according to Mr.
Paul Moir of the Asean Council
on Petroleum (ASCOPE) in
Kuala Lumpur.
A total of six of these 50 inch,
Class 150 valves, manufactured
by PCC Ball Valves Srl in Italy,
have been supplied to Interbeton
- McConnell Dowell JV for the
VLCC Jetty project in Singapore.
They are operated by a
combination of Rotork IQ35
actuators and Exeeco IW10R
worm/spur gearboxes, providing
opening and closing times of 56
seconds. In addition, six IQ
actuators and Exeeco MTW
gearboxes were selected to
operate 6 inch PCC 3-way
ball valves.
On the same project, which
involves the construction of a
complete new offloading jetty at
the refinery, twenty-four Rotork
IQ35 actuators have also been
supplied to operate PCC
AP16D through conduit 16 inch,
Class 150 gate valves. Eight of
these actuators have been
supplied with factory-fitted K-
Mass fireproofing, which enables
them to operate in emergency
conditions at temperatures in
excess of 1000C. A further
eight IQ actuators with K-Mass
were supplied for the operation
of 2 inch and 8 inch gate valves.
The Rotork scheme controls
pipeline pressure, keeps the
pipework full and ultrasonically
detects any leakage on the
Transpetro DTCS pipeline network
that connects refineries, tank
farms and terminals in the Sao
Paulo area. At each of forty
pipeline heads/scrapers, DTCS
engineers designed a system
comprising two Mockveld control
valves (pictured), operated by
Rotork IQM modulating actuators,
and four isolating valves, operated
with IQ actuators. A further 300
IQ actuators are also being
Rotork selected for excellency
management programme in
Brazil . . .
After a thorough evaluation of
various actuators offered, DTCS
decided on Rotork in view of the
requirement for an absolutely
reliable system Fluxo Servicios
de Petrleo, Brazil.
installed to operate all pump
station valves above 250mm (12
inch) size. In total more than 700
Rotork IQ actuators have been
ordered for the scheme, factory
fitted with Profibus DP modules
for linking to the centralised digital
control and monitoring system.
When safety, reliability and high
performance are a must, the
client chooses Rotork. says
Dinho Camargo, from Fluxo
Servicios de Petrleo, who
supplied the actuators on this
contract.
More than 700 IQ intelligent actuators with Profibus DP
connectivity are being installed on an environmental and
operational safety project in the Sao Paulo area of Brazil.
The project forms part of a $2 billion nationwide excellency
management programme known as PEGASO, implemented by
the state-owned oil company Petrobras.
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The contract for sixteen actuators
had already been awarded to
another manufacturer before the
restricted space problem dictated
a back to the drawing board
reappraisal, which Fluid System
was able to provide. Working with
International effort
secures Fluid System
success in Algeria
Sales Manager Sandro Bertelli
reports that the high level of
technical experience and ability
inherent in Rotorks sales and
engineering organisation enabled
Fluid System to propose the
solution for the relevant valve
duties that was the most
acceptable to all parties, resulting
in the award of orders involving
four valvemakers for a total of 164
actuators.
Fluid System is supplying 146 RP
and GP series quarter-turn and 18
LP series linear pneumatic
actuators and control packages on
the Ohanet scheme, which is the
seventh major gas development
project to have been constructed
in the Illizi provence of Algeria.
Gate valves for Ohanet equipped
with LP series linear actuators at
Rotorks Fluid System factory.
Communication and co-ordination between Rotork offices,
engineering contractors, instrument engineers and
valvemakers in Italy, Holland, UAE and Algeria has been the
key to Rotork Fluid Systems success with the Ohanet gas
development project in south east Algeria.
Technical support wins in
the North Sea
Technical support wins in
the North Sea
engineers from Brown & Root,
Rotork submitted a control
package proposal based on a
combination of pneumatic and
hydraulic LP series linear
actuators.
Rotork Fluid Systems technical ability to overcome the
challenges presented by a plant area with limited space has led
to the award of an order for the Chevron Alba oil production
platform (pictured), 130 miles offshore in the North Sea.