Mitigating the risks and effects of natural gas contaminants presents a challenge for pipeline operators, process industries, and natural gas utilities, as comprehensive analysis requires managing diverse technologies and devices. This approach is complex, prone to failure, and expensive. Traditionally, each contaminant requires a separate analyzer, a maintenance program, and a specific expertise for its operation, validation, and maintenance.
“Thanks to the new Sensi+ and the market-leading natural gas chromatograph, ABB is the first company to offer customers a comprehensive solution for gas quality measurement, combining composition and contaminant measurements in a compact, modular, cost-effective, and reliable system,” says Jean-Rene Roy, Global Business Line Manager for ABB’s Analytics division. “The Sensi+ analyzer helps customers meet custody transfer requirements, minimize internal corrosion in system infrastructure, and prevent physical damage to mission-critical assets.”
Sensi+ requires approximately six times less sample flow for measurement than other technologies, reducing the analyzer’s overall carbon emissions and the amount of natural gas released into the atmosphere. This reflects ABB’s commitment to achieving a low-carbon society by helping to reduce emissions and supporting sustainable operations in key industries.
Natural gas pipeline operators face the critical task of managing their installed base of analyzers to ensure the reliability, system integrity, and performance necessary for their custody transfer, emissions reduction, and process control applications. This analyzer complies with hazardous area regulations and requires only simple wall mounting and process connection, eliminating the need for a purge system. Once installed and validated, the analyzer will provide fast and reliable field measurements without requiring calibration.
The Sensi+ analyzer includes ABB's AnalyzerExpert™ feature, which allows experts to perform actions and obtain information directly from the device. Its functions include integrated self-diagnostics, automated laser lockout, real-time cross-interference compensation, and status monitoring.
