Emerson announced that a customer in China recently purchased the 3 millionth Fisher Fieldvue digital valve controller for use in the water treatment pressure control valve of its membrane plant. A digital valve controller helps regulate and monitor the opening and closing of a control valve, and also provides a wealth of information with respect to valve status and health. To mark this significant milestone, Emerson highlighted the top seven reasons why process plant personnel specify, purchase, install and use Fisher instruments.
1. A Fieldvue digital valve controller enables remote monitoring of control valve position. Florida Power & Light installed Fieldvue digital valve controllers on 90 of its Fisher control valves used to control natural gas and steam flows associated with the turbines. Plant operators in the control room now receive valve position feedback, allowing them to verify the operation of each valve. Accurate control valve position sensing enables tighter control to setpoint, increasing efficiency and improving operations.
2. In offline mode, a Fieldvue digital valve controller can be used to create a signature for a new valve. This signature captures details on packing friction, air usage, valve travel and other parameters – all of which can be compared to future valve signature test results. Often, a comparison will quickly highlight developing issues such as instrument misalignment, air supply issues and actuator leaks.
3. Fieldvue digital valve controllers can proactively monitor valve performance while the valve is online and controlling the process, revealing whether a valve is failing to reach commanded states or is exhibiting excessive air usage or abnormal friction, for example. This information can alert maintenance staff of developing issues, and in many cases diagnostic software can offer a list of possible causes, helping technicians to quickly isolate and resolve the problem.
4. Fieldvue digital valve controllers can detect trigger events and then capture valve profile and performance data before, during and after the event. This data may not prevent an event from happening, but the information is often critical to quickly isolate the root cause of the problem and to identify any failed components so they can be repaired quickly.
5. Fieldvue digital valve controllers are often used in critical applications such as on anti-surge and safety interlock valves. In these and other applications, they enable partial stroke testing to ensure the valve will perform as required during abnormal conditions, and they can also be used for partial proof-testing to extend intervals between required full proof-testing.
6. Historical data from the digital valve controller can be combined with other upstream and downstream process information, such as surging pressures or swinging flows, to uncover operational problems. Fieldvue digital valve controllers can also expose how a valve is performing related to parameters and factors such as supply air pressure, positioner tuning or mechanical sticking.
7. Fieldvue digital valve controllers enable secure remote valve monitoring provided as a service by third-party experts, whose efforts unload often-limited plant personnel. Based on instantaneous and trended data, it is possible to detect abnormal conditions that would lead to many developing problems. However, this data is only useful if it is gathered in near-real time and is accessible by specialists with the tools, skills and time to interpret it. Emerson provides these services, using its Fisher ValveLink software to perform scheduled online testing of each valve as it operates.
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