Measurement Solutions for Petrochemical Plants
Analytical and engineered instruments for feedstock quality, sulfur control, reactors and columns, fired equipment, water systems, gas flow, and materials verification.
Connecting feedstock, process, utility, and product measurements
Petrochemical plants operate interconnected reaction, separation, heating, compression, storage, and utility systems. Measurement performance affects feedstock acceptance, process stability, product consistency, equipment protection, wastewater treatment, and maintenance decisions.
Blue Dragon Technology supports these requirements with sulfur analyzers, water-quality instruments, elemental analysis, tube-skin and multipoint temperature assemblies, and industrial gas-flow meters. Application review focuses on the process stream, expected composition, measurement location, installation constraints, response-time requirement, and lifecycle support needed by the plant.
Measurement challenges in this industry
Feedstock and process sulfur
Measure sulfur where feed quality, catalyst protection, product specification, or treatment performance depends on reliable data.
Reaction and separation profiles
Monitor multipoint temperature behavior in reactors, catalyst beds, columns, and large process vessels.
Heater and furnace protection
Measure external tube-wall temperature to support safe thermal operation and identify abnormal heat distribution.
Water and effluent control
Track TOC, oil contamination, and turbidity in process water, cooling systems, treatment plants, and discharge streams.
Gas-flow measurement
Measure process, fuel, flare, vent, and utility-gas flows across the plant.
Material verification
Confirm alloys, components, raw materials, and maintenance replacements with elemental-analysis instruments.
Typical process areas and streams
- Feedstock receipt and preparation
- Reaction, polymerization, cracking, and reforming units
- Distillation columns, vessels, and catalyst beds
- Fired heaters, furnaces, boilers, and steam systems
- Process gas, fuel gas, flare, vent, and utility-gas networks
- Cooling water, process water, and wastewater treatment
- Storage, loading, 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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Sulfur Ratio / Air-Demand Control
Sulfur-ratio measurement supporting Claus air-demand control.
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Trace Moisture Measurement in Gases
Continuous measurement of trace moisture in industrial gases.
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Water Dew Point Measurement
Direct or calculated water dew point measurement in gas streams.
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Gas Moisture Concentration Measurement
Moisture concentration reporting in ppmV, mg/m3 or configured units.
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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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Relevant measurement capabilities.
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Blue Dragon BDT Flow Measurement Series
Ultrasonic gas-flow measurement instruments engineered and manufactured by Lauris Technologies, Canada, and supplied and supported by Blue Dragon Technology.
Explore series →Moisture & Dew Point Measurement Series
Online, field, and portable instruments for trace moisture, water dew point, hydrocarbon condensation temperature, gas dehydration, and gas-quality verification.
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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Lauris FF1225-XT Extreme-Temperature Ultrasonic Gas Flow Meter
Extreme-temperature waveguide ultrasonic gas flow meter for cryogenic and high-temperature flare, process-gas, furnace, refinery, petrochemical and power-generation applications.
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Model 810H2S Online Hydrogen Sulfide Tape Analyzer
Online H₂S tape analyzer for continuous selective hydrogen sulfide monitoring in natural gas, refinery, petrochemical, LNG, fuel-gas, hydrogen, biogas, and other process-gas applications.
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Model 810H2S-TS Online Hydrogen Sulfide & Total Sulfur Tape Analyzer
Online tape analyzer for selective H₂S measurement plus Total Sulfur measurement through a dedicated heated hydrogen-conversion section.
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Lauris FF1225-U Single-Port Insertion Ultrasonic Gas Flow Meter
Single-port insertion ultrasonic gas flow meter for low-velocity flare gas, storage-tank vents, process gas and replacement of conventional insertion flow meters.
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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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Lauris FF1225-A Single-Path Inline Ultrasonic Gas Flow Meter
Single-path inline ultrasonic gas flow meter for flare gas, vent gas, associated gas, flue gas, natural gas and industrial process-gas measurement across an exceptionally wide velocity range.
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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-P Portable Hydrogen Sulfide Tape Analyzer
Portable industrial H₂S analyzer for field verification, temporary monitoring, process troubleshooting, and sheltered laboratory support, with 1 ppb resolution, one-second analysis, and configurable ppb-to-ppm ranges.
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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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FAS-W Online Moisture & Dew Point Analyzer
Online chilled-mirror gas-moisture analyzer with versions for water dew point, moisture concentration, or both, plus integrated absolute-pressure measurement, 4-20 mA, Modbus RTU, and alarm outputs.
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Lauris FF1225-G Vertical-Port Insertion Ultrasonic Gas Flow Meter
Vertical-port insertion ultrasonic gas flow meter for low-velocity flare, vent, natural gas, biogas and process-gas applications where side access is limited.
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HygroTrace Ultra-Trace Moisture Analyzer
Coulometric analyzer for quantitative ultra-trace moisture measurement in natural and process gases, with ppmV and mg/m³ reporting, calculated water dew point, low sample demand, 4-20 mA, and Modbus RTU.
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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.
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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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Lauris FF2225-A Dual-Path Inline Ultrasonic Gas Flow Meter
Dual-path inline ultrasonic gas flow meter for flare gas, natural gas, blended gas, associated gas and industrial process streams requiring greater accuracy and measurement confidence.
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Model C610OIW Online Oil-in-Water Analyzer
Online oil-in-water monitoring system for produced water, refinery and industrial wastewater, heavy-oil contamination, process trending, and alarm applications.
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FAS-SW Trace Moisture & Dew Point Transmitter
Compact 4-20 mA water-dew-point transmitter for inert, aggressive, and hydrogen-containing gases, with calibrated ranges extending to -100 °C and pressure capability up to 300 bar.
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Model C620TUR Online Turbidity Analyzer
Online turbidity analyzer for continuous industrial and municipal wastewater, process-water, surface-water, intake, treatment-process, utility-water, and discharge monitoring.
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Model C680 High-Temperature Combustion TOC Analyzer
Laboratory total organic carbon analyzer using 680 °C catalytic combustion, separate TC and IC reaction paths, manual microsyringe injection, and NDIR carbon-dioxide detection.
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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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HYGROVISION-BL Portable Water & Hydrocarbon Dew Point Analyzer
Portable chilled-mirror analyzer combining automatic measurement with microscopic manual confirmation of water dew point and hydrocarbon condensation temperature, battery operation, data storage, Modbus, and infrared transfer.
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Natural Gas & LNG
Measurement solutions for gas processing, sweetening, liquefaction, LNG quality, gas flow, utilities, and materials verification.
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Pipelines & Midstream
Application-focused instrumentation for Pipelines & Midstream, covering Pipeline gas quality, dew point, H2S and sulfur, flow, and portable verification across Transmission pipelines, compressor stations, meter stations, and terminals.
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Sulfur Recovery & Gas Treating
Application-focused instrumentation for Sulfur Recovery & Gas Treating, covering H2S, SO2, sulfur ratio, tail gas, and gas moisture across Amine units, Claus SRU, tail gas, and incinerator.
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Chemical Processing
Application-focused instrumentation for Chemical Processing, covering Trace moisture, H2S and sulfur, TOC, flow, and multipoint temperature across Reactors, columns, specialty gas systems, and utilities.
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Hydrogen & Syngas
Application-focused instrumentation for Hydrogen & Syngas, covering Ultra-trace moisture, dew point, gas flow, H2S where relevant, and temperature across Electrolysis, reforming, purification, and compression.
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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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How do petrochemical applications differ from refinery applications?
Petrochemical plants often place greater emphasis on reaction profiles, feedstock consistency, catalyst-sensitive streams, polymer or chemical product quality, and complex utility integration. The exact measurement basis must be reviewed by unit and stream.
Can multipoint temperature systems be customized for reactors or columns?
Yes. Sensor count, insertion length, process connection, support arrangement, materials, routing, and termination are engineered from the vessel design and operating conditions.
Which water measurements are commonly reviewed?
TOC, oil-in-water, and turbidity may be relevant to process water, cooling systems, treatment performance, reuse, and effluent monitoring.
Can elemental instruments support maintenance and incoming inspection?
Yes. Handheld or benchtop XRF can support material identification, alloy verification, incoming inspection, and plant laboratory workflows, subject to the required calibration and matrix.
Discuss your petrochemical measurement application.
Share the process unit, stream or equipment, measurement objective, expected composition and range, operating conditions, installation constraints, and project timeline.