Parker Instrumentation is presenting a unique perspective on the future of process instrumentation at Offshore Europe 2007 (September 4-7 in Aberdeen, UK) with a novel exhibit running throughout a 16-m-long truck.

One long process pipeline has been equipped with the spectrum of common plant instrumentation, but interfaced using components based on next-generation principles. The company’s far-sighted focus on innovating instrumentation tube fitting, valve and manifold products offers implementation approaches with radical reductions in emissions, risk and lifecycle costs.
The products on display range from breakthrough advances to high-integrity component building blocks. For instance, CCIMS (Close Coupled Instrument Mounting Solution) provides a ready-to-use solution that allows differential process transmitters to be attached directly onto a pipeline’s orifice plate assembly in less than 30 minutes. This innovative module typically replaces hand-crafted assemblies of discrete tubing, joint and valve components that can take anywhere from one to three man-days to fabricate. 
In the building block category is a ‘push-fit’ tube connector called Phastite that operates up to 20,000 PSI/1,379 bar.
Among a number of brand new products on display for the first time is a manifold range that meets the A rating of the ISO 15848 standard for fugitive emissions. ISO 15848 effectively sets a ‘zero emission’ level, and Parker Instrumentation is launching double-block-and-bleed manifold configurations, in either monoflange or low-profile flange-ended forms.
Such advances will be critical in satisfying increasing emissions regulation such as the EU’s IPPC directive 96/61/EC which comes into force from October 2007.