Process Analyzers & Sampling Systems (PASS)
The most expensive analyzer on the market cannot rescue a badly designed sampling system. In most plants, when the analyzer "lies", the sample system is the liar — this programme teaches you to design the one that tells the truth.
Format
Classroom · Virtual
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Process analyzers steer product quality, combustion, emissions compliance and custody decisions — yet the majority of "analyzer problems" are born metres upstream, in the sampling system. This five-day programme treats sampling as the engineering discipline it is. It builds from analytical measurement fundamentals through the main analyzer families — oxygen, CO and NOx, gas chromatographs — into the core of the craft: probe selection and location, lag-time and pressure-drop calculation, phase behaviour at dew point and bubble point, vaporising systems and the auto-refrigeration traps that come with them, Joule–Thomson effects, and continuous emissions monitoring. Every design principle is worked numerically: participants calculate, size and troubleshoot rather than memorise. The result is the ability to design a sampling system that delivers a timely, representative sample — and to find the root cause when an installed one does not. Cohorts run across the Gulf and Africa — Dubai, Dammam, Doha, Muscat, Lagos — and live online.
What you will do
Who attends
Analyzer, instrumentation and control engineers; analyzer maintenance engineers and senior technicians; process and chemical engineers who own product-quality or emissions measurements; system integrators and design consultants; laboratory chemists moving into on-line analysis. An engineering or strong technical background is assumed.
Programme agenda
Built for the decisions no textbook prepares you for
I.Analytical measurement & sample conditioning fundamentals
- The measurement chain from process tap to control decision — and where it breaks
- Sample conditioning vocabulary, components and architectures
- Baseline chemistry for sampling: phases, partial pressures, condensables
II.The analyzer families
- Oxygen measurement: paramagnetic, zirconia and tunable-diode approaches
- CO and NOx measurement for combustion and emissions duty
- Process gas chromatographs: what they need from the sample to perform
III.Sampling system engineering
- Probe design and location: the decision that fixes or dooms the system
- Lag-time calculation and the fast-loop architectures that meet it
- Pressure-drop analysis and sample line sizing
IV.Phase behaviour: the silent measurement killer
- Dew-point and bubble-point calculations applied to real streams
- Vapour sample systems: keeping a gas a gas
- Liquid sample systems: bubbles, flashing and how to prevent them
V.Vaporising systems & advanced applications
- Vaporising regulators, auto-refrigeration and Joule–Thomson calculations
- Reflux samplers, spargers and difficult-service designs
- Continuous emissions monitoring systems and the design review workshop
Frequently asked
Who should attend the PASS course, and what background is assumed?
It is built for analyzer, instrumentation and control engineers; analyzer maintenance engineers and senior technicians; process and chemical engineers who own product-quality or emissions measurements; system integrators and design consultants; and laboratory chemists moving into on-line analysis. An engineering or strong technical background is assumed.
Is the programme theoretical, or do participants actually calculate?
Every design principle is worked numerically: participants calculate lag time and pressure drop, run dew-point, bubble-point and Joule–Thomson calculations on real streams, and size and troubleshoot rather than memorise. The aim is the ability to design a sampling system that delivers a timely, representative sample — and to find the root cause when an installed one does not.
How long is the course, and where does it run?
It is a five-day intensive programme. Cohorts run across the Gulf and Africa — Dubai, Dammam, Doha, Muscat, Lagos — and live online, in English and French, with in-house editions available. Sessions follow a rolling calendar with dates confirmed on request; fees and quotations are provided on enquiry.
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