Instrumentation for Natural Gas & LNG Facilities
Analytical, flow, water-quality, temperature, and materials instruments for gas treatment, liquefaction, storage, transfer, and supporting utility systems.
Measurements that support gas quality, treatment, and reliable transfer
Natural-gas processing and LNG facilities must control sulfur-bearing components, treatment performance, gas quality, flow, utilities, materials, and operating conditions across high-pressure and cryogenic process systems. The measurement solution must be matched carefully to the gas composition, pressure reduction, sample transport, installation area, and response-time objective.
Blue Dragon Technology supports gas-processing and LNG projects with total-sulfur and hydrogen-sulfide measurement, sulfur-recovery monitoring, industrial ultrasonic gas-flow instruments, water-quality analysis, elemental verification, and engineered temperature assemblies. Configuration and integration are reviewed at project level.
Measurement challenges in this industry
Sulfur and hydrogen sulfide
Measure total sulfur and hydrogen sulfide to support treatment performance, gas quality, downstream protection, and safe handling.
Gas-flow measurement
Measure process gas, fuel gas, boil-off gas, flare or vent streams, and metering applications across changing operating conditions.
Gas-treatment performance
Monitor key streams around sweetening, sulfur recovery, and tail-gas treatment systems.
Sample conditioning and transport
Manage high pressure, condensation risk, moisture, response time, and representative delivery to the analyzer.
Water and utility quality
Monitor organic loading and turbidity in supporting water, condensate, treatment, and discharge systems.
Material and temperature integrity
Verify components and monitor engineered temperature points in process equipment and supporting systems.
Typical process areas and streams
- Gas gathering, inlet separation, and compression
- Sweetening, dehydration, and contaminant removal
- Sulfur recovery and tail-gas treatment
- Fractionation, liquefaction, and refrigeration systems
- Boil-off gas, fuel gas, flare, vent, and utility-gas networks
- LNG storage, loading, transfer, and metering
- Water treatment, maintenance, inspection, and quality laboratories
Applications used in this industry.
Online Total Sulfur Measurement
Continuous total-sulfur measurement for representative liquid or gas samples in process, product-quality, and treatment applications.
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Hydrogen Sulfide Measurement
Specific H2S measurement for gas treatment, product quality, process monitoring, and safe handling applications.
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Sulfur Recovery & Tail Gas Monitoring
Process-gas measurement for sulfur recovery, tail-gas treatment, sulfur-ratio control, and plant optimization.
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Industrial Gas Flow Measurement
Ultrasonic gas-flow measurement for inline and insertion applications across natural gas, process gas, fuel gas, flare, vent, and high-temperature services.
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Material Identification & Verification
XRF-based identification and verification of alloys, metals, components, incoming materials, maintenance replacements, and recycled material.
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Total Organic Carbon Measurement
TOC measurement for water-quality control, contamination detection, treatment monitoring, process investigation, and laboratory analysis.
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Elemental Analysis & Materials Characterization
X-ray fluorescence instruments for elemental composition, material identification, quality control, field screening, and industrial laboratories.
Explore series →Flow Measurement Series
Ultrasonic gas-flow measurement instruments manufactured by Lauris Technologies, Canada, and supplied and supported by Blue Dragon Technology.
Explore series →Sulfur Analysis Series
Online analyzers for total sulfur, hydrogen sulfide, sulfur ratio, and sulfur recovery unit process monitoring.
Explore series →Temperature Measurement Series
Engineered temperature-measurement assemblies manufactured by MESIT, Italy, and supplied and supported by Blue Dragon Technology.
Explore series →Water Quality & Organic Carbon Series
Online and laboratory analyzers for organic carbon, oil-in-water, turbidity, wastewater, and high-purity water measurement.
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BDT-GT Gasket-Mount Surface Thermocouples
Compact gasket-mount thermocouples for bolted or stud-mounted surface-temperature measurement on machinery, engines, housings, bearings, flanges, and industrial equipment.
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BDT-MP Multipoint Temperature Assemblies
Custom multipoint temperature assemblies with multiple thermocouple or RTD sensing points for measuring temperature profiles at defined elevations or depths within reactors, columns, vessels, tanks, and kilns.
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BDT-SKIN Tube-Skin Thermocouples
Engineered tube-skin thermocouple assemblies for direct tube-wall temperature measurement in petrochemical heaters, boiler and superheater tubes, and other demanding thermal-process equipment.
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Model 800RS Online Sulfur Ratio Analyzer
Online sulfur-ratio analyzer for continuous H₂S and SO₂ measurement, calculated H₂S-to-SO₂ ratio, and SRU air-demand control integration.
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Model 800TS Online Total Sulfur Analyzer
Industrial online total sulfur analyzer for continuous process and product-quality monitoring, with quantitative injection, UV fluorescence detection, and optional multi-stream operation.
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Model 810H2S Online Hydrogen Sulfide Tape Analyzer with Total Sulfur Option
Online H₂S tape analyzer for continuous process-gas monitoring, with an optional heated conversion path for selectable total sulfur measurement.
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Model 820TGA Online Tail Gas Analyzer
Online tail-gas analyzer for sulfur recovery unit process monitoring, H₂S and SO₂ measurement, calculated sulfur ratio, and SRU performance applications.
View instrumentRelated industries.
Petrochemicals
Measurement systems for petrochemical feedstocks, reaction processes, fired equipment, utilities, effluent, gas flow, and material quality.
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Power Generation
Measurement systems for fuels, boiler and high-purity water, fired equipment, gas flow, materials, and conventional or nuclear generation.
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Fertilizers & Chemicals
Analytical and engineered measurement systems for feedstocks, process gases, reactors, utilities, effluent, flow, and material quality.
Explore →Industry questions.
What information is needed for a natural-gas analyzer application?
Provide the gas composition, target component, expected range, pressure, temperature, moisture, possible condensables, sample take-off location, area classification, utilities, and required response time.
Can ultrasonic flow meters be selected for different pipe arrangements?
Yes. Selection depends on pipe size, pressure, temperature, velocity range, gas composition, required accuracy, available straight run, insertion or inline preference, and installation access.
How is condensation risk handled in gas sampling?
The complete sample path must be reviewed, including pressure reduction, heat tracing, filtration, transport time, materials, and the phase behavior of the stream.
Can the same portfolio support LNG utilities and wastewater?
Yes. Water-quality and elemental instruments can support utility, treatment, maintenance, and laboratory requirements alongside the process-gas measurements.
Discuss your natural gas or LNG measurement application.
Provide the gas composition, measurement range, pressure and temperature, flow conditions, sample location, area classification, utilities, and project schedule.