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The best available technique that is revolutionising breather valve testing
Assentech was incorporated by Ewart Cox in 2008, who has 25 years’ industry experience, with the main aim of supplying quality equipment as well as providing technical advice and maintenance support for tank storage, fluid transfer and process safety applications.
Currently, Assentech supplies products from quality manufacturers located across the Globe. Always focused on delivering quality solutions with focus on the environment, site safety, operating efficiency to protect assets, improved profitability, safeguarding stakeholder confidence and evidence compliance.
’Buying once, buying well’ is a familiar phrase with Assentech customers who are encouraged to evaluate their product selection by understanding the technical specifications of well designed, quality products and not base their purchase decisions solely on price.
Assentech firmly believes that quality products have lower cost of ownership and protect the environment better than the false economy of buying cheap equipment. Located in Cornwall, Assentech also has two satellite offices based in Gloucestershire and Yorkshire. The level of specialist expertise and comprehensive service comes completely unrivalled and reflects the quality and reliability of its team members who are committed to providing clients with a unique set of benefits to which they cannot find elsewhere.
“Assentech’s core strength is our comprehensive understanding of breather valve functionality, compliance and comparative knowledge of the breather valve marketplace, providing our customers with a unique and supportive overview to help guide decision makers.”
“We are extremely proud to be certified by a UKAS accredited company to ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001. Our enviable reputation is the outcome of our core strengths which are to provide specialist engineering services, environmental solutions and safety equipment for process industries dealing with flammable, hazardous or corrosive substances.”
“Our main objective is to help clients achieve regulatory compliance, reduce emissions and optimise their production processes,” stated Debbie Pearce, Director.
Assentech Management is also represented on two International Standards Committees, with Ewart Cox currently writing an environmental annexe for API2000.
In recent news, Assentech has just launched its new innovation: Vent-Less. A ground-breaking technology that is automated with AI and algorithms. The Vent-Less AI technology has automated 2-minute testing, aligned to the test protocol of API2000 International Standard. Both vacuum and pressure ports are tested. An instantaneous, traceable and irrefutable API2000 Test Report is generated which includes verified flow curve, set point and leak rate as well as QR code labelling to simplify asset management and retrieval of test data.
A huge risk to any tank storage facility is through the breather valves that are installed on a tank. A breather valve or also known as a PVRV (Pressure and Vacuum Relief Valve) is a valve that protects tanks and vessels from overpressure and vacuum conditions. It opens when the internal pressure exceeds a set point, allowing excess pressure to escape, and opens again when the internal pressure drops below atmospheric pressure to prevent collapse. It’s widely used in various industries to maintain safety and prevent equipment damage or product loss.
With the focus on the environment, Assentech has spent 8 years of R&D to develop Vent-Less which is designed to check functionality, sealing and performance of individual breather valves on both vacuum and pressure ports.
“Vent-Less will provide a full leak and functionality test in less than two minutes as well as irrefutable results. The technology is revolutionising tank storage facilities and is unique to the world providing a best available technique to quantify, monitor and reduce emissions for environmental reporting, ESG metrics and providing valuable data for net zero analytics,” said
Debbie. You can find out more here: www.assentech.co.uk/ automatic-mobile-smart-testbench-for-breather-valves-pvrv-prvvrv-improve-efficiency-and-reduceemissions/
Vent-Less was recently used by a customer from an anaerobic digestion waste to energy facility who was looking for ways to defend pending enforcement by the Environment Agency for emissions violation. After Assentech measured the methane leak rate of the vents they removed and replaced, the results were outstanding. The reduction in valve leak rate dropped from 90cfh (cubic feet per hour) to 0.08cfh at 90% of set point. Saving the equivalent of 200 double decker buses of leaked emissions to 0.2 of one bus. IPCC calculations this reduction represents a reduction in environmental impact cost from £62,000 to £57 per valve per annum. Vent-Less is a key instrument in Leak Detection And Repair (LDAR) planning for compliance with the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) because it is the only technology available to quantify the volume of leakage from a valve.
In support of this innovation, Assentech has also launched a free to use environmental methane leakage calculator on its website which provides clarity on both the environmental and financial costs to leakage.
www.assentech.co.uk/anaerobicdigestion-biogas-pressure-andvacuum-relief-valves-with-flamearresters/
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