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Are your electrical systems approved for use in our country.

Almost certainly, Yes. Our systems have been built and certified for India’s PESO, China’s NEPSI, and Russia’s GOST, and Ontario Canda’s Hydro Authority just to name a few. Our systems are built to conform to NEC, IEC, CENELEC.

Yes! Technics is quite aware of the required material selection for withstanding various levels of radiation and have been installed at particle accelerators and medical cyclotrons. We are well aware of hydrogen separation from water where we can offer recombiners in lieu of flaring.

We have installed and commissioned our systems on 6 continents and 17 countries.

Having done this for over 30 years, we have encountered just about every platform including all of Rockwell’s Offerings, Siemens, Modicon, National Instruments, Mitsubishi, Toyoda, Automation Direct as well as GUI and SCADA systems from Rockwell, Siemens, Maple Systems, iFix, and Labview. As you can see, if we haven’t worked on a platform, we will figure it out.

The LOGOS System is Technics’ platform for fluids processing and management. It is part of Technics’ control approach for demanding process environments, including blending applications that require high-resolution control, monitoring, and reporting.

Yes. Our engineering scope includes mechanical, electrical, and software disciplines for both sub-process systems and full plant design. Its engineering work includes areas such as process development, heating and cooling loads, piping layout, flow and pressure control strategy, instrumentation selection, control panel design, and network design

Hydrocarbon Blending Systems FAQs

How do inline blending systems improve profitability?

Inline blending improves profitability by allowing operators to blend lower-cost products with higher-value products, often producing ROI in weeks or months rather than years. In refinery applications, the benefit is described as improved process efficiency and better use of installed capacity.

Blending opportunities exist from the wellhead to retail, including the wellhead, tank battery, crude pipeline, import/export terminals, refinery feedstock, refined-product pipelines, and distribution terminals.

Yes. C4+ components such as butane and pentane can often be recovered at low cost and blended into crude oil, while the Technics system continuously monitors vapor pressure and API gravity and adjusts dosage to stay on target.

Yes. At the tank battery, operators can blend gathered C4+ or discounted opportunity crude while using analyzers to stay within required limits for API gravity, vapor pressure, water content, and viscosity. 

Yes. Our blenders are available as mobile platforms, allowing operators to move equipment between tank batteries or other locations when market conditions or product availability create a short-term opportunity.

Crude pipelines as especially attractive because they receive crude from many suppliers with varying characteristics and deliver to customers with different requirements. That variation can create room to blend in high volumes of C4+ and low-cost butane.

Yes. Crude import/export terminals are strong candidates because they typically combine high throughput, wide-ranging crude quality, and sometimes existing LPG storage, which can reduce capital cost for adding a blending system.

Yes. Technics blenders can be designed to perform blending during both loading and offloading events, including crude/crude and C4+/crude applications at import/export terminals.

Crude blenders combine multiple feedstocks, opportunity crudes, and slop in real time to better match CDU requirements and maintain a more consistent density, viscosity, and sulfur content than traditional tank blending.

Yes. Butane injection into gasoline is a major refined-product blending opportunity because it allows operators to sell low-cost butane at gasoline pricing, provided the finished blend stays within allowable vapor pressure limits.

Butane/gasoline blending can be applied at the pipeline, distribution terminal, and import/export terminal, depending on throughput, storage availability, and regional vapor-pressure rules.

Technics systems use analyzers and automated control to closely target required specs while maximizing value. Depending on the application, the systems can monitor variables such as sulfur, vapor pressure, acidity, viscosity, density, and water content.

Technics systems can provide extremely tight dosing, with parallel controlled butane and C5+ flow delivering control to within 0.05%, while proper pre-dispersion and homogenization help ensure representative sampling.

Metering, Sampling & Analysis FAQs

What is a custody transfer metering system?

A custody transfer metering system is used to accurately measure hydrocarbons as ownership is transferred between parties. It provides an accurate and reliable measurement system as a critical part of any custody transfer activity because measurement errors can negatively affect both buyer and seller.

Proving is important because it verifies that the metering system is measuring correctly. Verification is critical in custody transfer, helping provide confidence for owners, operators, and downstream buyers.

We support  several flow measurement approaches, including ultrasonic meters, Coriolis meters, turbine meters, and positive displacement meters. Technics is not tied to a single manufacturer or measurement method and selects components based on application needs.

Ultrasonic flow meters are especially well suited for high-volume systems because they offer strong accuracy, low pressure drop, and can be proven using a ball prover. They do require pressure and temperature compensation for certain measurement bases and may be less economical on smaller systems.

Coriolis meters are useful because they provide direct mass measurement and direct density measurement, and most models also include internal temperature measurement. They adapt well to changing densities, though size limitations and pressure drop can affect suitability for larger systems.

Yes. Turbine meters have been used in custody transfer for a long time and can offer good accuracy and small-volume proving capability. However, they contain internal moving parts that wear over time and can be affected by debris.

Positive displacement meters are  one of the oldest technologies and are typically used on smaller systems where they can be economical. However, they include internal parts that can be susceptible to damage and pressure drop.

A multi-stream metering system uses two or more metering streams, often in a duty/standby arrangement. The  multi-stream designs can help reduce the size and cost of proving mechanisms while supporting larger flowrates, though they also add system complexity.

Very large flowrates require larger and more expensive meters. Diverting flow through multiple streams can reduce the cost of unused standby capacity and lower the size and method requirements of the proving system.

A master meter proving system uses a calibrated reference flow meter in parallel with the measurement streams. When proving is needed, the selected stream is diverted through the master meter and the results are compared. However, this method is not universally accepted in all jurisdictions.

A compact volume prover uses a piston and shaft encoder to measure displacement. Compact provers use less space than ball provers and have gained broader acceptance, but they can be costly and are not typically accepted for proving ultrasonic flow meters.

The ball prover is the time-proven and universally accepted proving method. It uses a polymer sphere moving through a calibrated pipe section, with displacement switches used to verify measurement performance.

A uni-directional prover moves the ball in one direction and returns it upstream with a piston, creating a longer, narrower design. A bi-directional prover works in both directions using a four-way valve and a U-shaped section, which can make the system shorter.  

The calibrated section must comply with API and ISO methods, and craftsmanship is essential because gaps or ovality variations can cause the prover to fail calibration. In other words, poor construction can result in an unprovable prover.

Representative sampling means obtaining a real-time sample that accurately reflects the actual fluid or gas stream being measured. This is one of Technics’ principal design tasks, especially for crude oil and natural gas measurement and analysis systems.

Technics’ sampling and analysis solutions are complete systems that can include sample extraction from multiple sources, rapid transfer to the analyzer, stream treatment for pressure, flow, temperature, and contamination, and waste recovery systems for residuals.

BS&W water content analysis provides continuous, real-time data for net oil and net water. This matters because crude oil commonly carries water, and water content directly affects product value.

X-ray Transmission (XRT) gauging is a long-accepted method for measuring total sulfur in heavy hydrocarbon process streams.

Yes. Viscosity/density meters are available as pipe insertion devices and can provide the resolution needed for the application.

Fluidics for Research, Development, and Validation FAQs

What is a conditioned refueling system?

A conditioned refueling system is a mobile fuel delivery package designed to control both fuel temperature and flow rate during refueling or specialty test activity. These systems are integrated packages for precision temperature and rate-controlled fuel delivery.

Technics’ pressure and flow test stands are used for performance, fatigue, burst, leak, vacuum, and flow testing. These rigs are built for demanding applications and can precisely impart and monitor pressure, vacuum, flow, and temperature

These systems can be designed for a variety of chemicals ranging from deionized water to liquid fuels and solvents.

Technics’ flow testing rigs are systems that provide controlled flow independent of pressure and typically include thermal conditioning for both heat input and heat removal. These rigs can be used in production operations for validation and calibration of pressure control devices and metering systems.

Pump performance test stands analyze the electrical characteristics of the drive motor through variable speed drives while varying fluid temperature and pressure. The systems vary pump speed and record operating data to give users precise test results.

Technics’ pressure fatigue systems impart both pressure and vacuum on small and large test parts. Frequencies are adjustable and can reach 100 Hz, and our rigs are designed to be robust enough to significantly outlast the units under test.

Burst testing systems are used to apply pressure profiles until a component fails, often while also checking for leakage beforehand. Technics’ systems can be retrofitted to an existing test bench and can include programmable ramp and soak profiles plus leak testing at various stages up until burst.

Technics’ expertise ranges from inches of water column to over 400 bar, covering very low-pressure through high-pressure testing applications.

Technics has expertise in systems where flammable vapors are used and provides a completely closed-loop design that avoids venting vapors and includes a mechanism to coalesce vapors back to liquid form.

Liquid Cooling Thermal Management & Water Quality Systems FAQs

Can your thermal management equipment withstand radioactive water?

Yes! Technics is quite aware of the required material selection for withstanding various levels of radiation and have been installed at particle accelerators and medical cyclotrons. We are well aware of hydrogen separation from water where we can offer recombiners in lieu of flaring.

A liquid cooling thermal management system is designed to maintain the required temperature, flow, and pressure needed for consistent heat transfer and stable equipment performance. Technics uses precise flow and pressure control to ensure consistent heat transfer from the equipment at a given delta T.

Temperature affects equipment performance because temperature changes influence how systems operate and how components expand and contract. In critical applications, precise thermal management helps maintain stable operating conditions and protect performance.

Our systems maintain temperatures within 0.2 degrees C. This level of control is achieved through careful measurement design rather than relying only on controller display values.

Technics uses 4-wire 1000 ohm sensors connected to 24-bit input cards, directly reading resistance, and interpolating temperature from calibration tables. This approach is used to support precise and controlled temperature performance.

Technics uses valves and instruments not normally associated with standard commercial contractor packages to provide the flow and pressure control required for consistent heat transfer and precise system performance.

Technics has designed and built conditioning equipment since 1995 for fuels, coolants, and lubricants used in aerospace and ground vehicle research, and later developed thermal management applications for particle accelerators requiring treatment of radioactive water. This background is the foundation for our healthcare solutions.

Yes. The Technics system is modular, with independent closed loops that provide prescribed temperature, flow, pressure, and water quality to individual subsystems.

Independent closed loops allow the system to provide the required operating conditions to individual subsystems separately. The examples listed include subsystems such as the cyclotron, RF, and magnets, showing that different parts of a critical system can be supported individually.

Poor water quality, or even less-than-ideal water characteristics, can shorten equipment life and jeopardize the long-term investment. Water quality control is presented as a core part of protecting sensitive equipment and maintaining long-term reliability.

We use a separate treatment system that automatically connects to the closed loops to adjust conductivity with mixed beds, dissolved oxygen through a membrane scavenger, and pH through chemical injection.

Yes. The water treatment system automatically connects to the closed loops to make ongoing adjustments to water characteristics such as conductivity, dissolved oxygen, and pH.

Yes. Technics systems are redundant and failsafe and are built to help avoid unanticipated cooling shutdowns, which could otherwise cause revenue loss or equipment damage.

Avoiding unexpected cooling shutdowns is important because they can result in lost revenue and, at worst, damaged equipment. Technics positions its redundant, failsafe architecture and water-quality control strategy as ways to protect these long-term investments.

Lubricant Blending Systems FAQs

What does Technics provide for lubricant blending plants?

Technics provides integrated lubricant blending solutions that combine process design, machinery, instrumentation and controls, and management software for lube oil blending plants. The LOGOS-managed processes aim at higher throughput, more diverse formulations, and assured product quality.

A LOGOS-managed lubricant blending process is Technics’ integrated approach to operating a lube oil blending plant. LOGOS combines hardware and software to manage plant operations, control embedded I/O and PCs, communicate with field devices, and support recipe execution, inventory supervision, and logistics reporting.

Modern lubricant blending processes must handle a wide array of materials with wide-ranging flow rates, viscosities, and temperatures.  Emphasizing the risk of cross contamination, making proper design, fabrication, valving, metering, and instrumentation especially important.

Technics’ scope includes process design, plant layout and piping, packaged processing skids, blending vessels, instrumentation and control systems, facilities and process management software, and broader implementation support.

LOGOS Machinery SCADA ensures that simultaneous blending of multiple components is executed in exact accordance with the blend recipe. It uses database tables shared with LOGOS Enterprise, allowing recipe spreadsheets to be stored centrally while presenting only the current production data to the plant floor.

LOGOS Enterprise is used as the higher-level system that stores recipe spreadsheets and shares database tables with LOGOS Machinery SCADA. This setup helps manage production data and provides a degree of administrator control over what is presented to operators.

The LOGOS Tank Farm Module supervises the inventory of material connected to the process, including its location and other parameters. This positions it as the inventory and material-management layer within the lubricant blending plant.

The LOGOS Logistics System manages bulk loading and unloading operations to trucks, rail, and barges. It interacts with the transfer platform, generates reports for received inventory and custody transfer, and captures data from devices such as scales and meters during loading and unloading events.

Yes. Customers need to manufacture an increasing number of formulations with greater complexity. LOGOS and its shared recipe/database structure as part of the solution for managing those recipes and executing blends accurately.

On-time, at-spec, every-time production is achieved with the combined use of properly designed machinery, recipe-based control, integrated plant software, instrumentation, and logistics/inventory modules working together within the LOGOS-managed process.

Full Design

Complete in-house design encompassing fluid dynamics, heat transfer, mechanical, electrical, controls, and software.

Outstanding Craftsmanship

Certified Welding , Assembly, and Electrical to all Standards

Proprietary Controls & Software

Internal capabilities on a wide range of platforms.

Global Commissioning

30 Years of on-site support worldwide

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