Many processes in Tank storage terminals and broader chemical industry include manual valves. The correct position of these valves is crucial for safe and efficient operations and this position is not available in the control room.
Today solutions to monitor the exact position of a manual valve are expensive and often too complex to install at scale. Each site has their own history and level of automation, and most are still relying on manual checks to verify line ups, or drains that should be opened or closed.
With Aloxy’s Valve Position sensor it is now possible to visualise the real time positions of manual valves in the operator’s control room, eliminating the need for physical checks. The sensor detects fully open, close or intermediate positions of any manual valve in the terminal in real time at a relatively low cost. Preventing mistakes during line ups, avoiding contaminations and spills.
Aloxy has build a unique solution for all types and sizes manual valves that are not monitored which are crucial for safe and efficient operations.
The Aloxy Valve Sensor is universal for all valve sizes with multiturn handwheels, even with gearboxes and quarter turns.
It transmits the position over a wireless LoRaWAN netork, enabling mass deployment of the sensors across the terminal, while achieving a battery lifetime between 5 to 10 years. The data is centrally processed in the Aloxy software, keeping the sensors small and affordable while making sure the data you receive is thrustworthy.
Companies like Kinder Morgan, IMTT, Shell, Chevron and BASF and many more, implemented this sensor in their line up procedures to prevent mistakes, increasing terminal throughput.
The software is available as a cloud solution, for scalability across multiple sites and available on premise to comply with terminal’s specific needs.
If you do not have a LoRaWAN network available in your terminal, this can easiliy be realised.
Aloxy can help you to set up this private network , guiding you to take your first steps in the Industrial Internet of Things with Manual Valve Position Sensors.
