Petroleum refiningCoking operations

Coking is the final means of converting the heaviest products of atmospheric and vacuum distillation. Feed is heated and cracked into light gases, gasoline blendstocks, distillates, and gas oil. Level applications for delayed and continuous (contact or fluid) coking include the fractionator, light gas oil stripper, steam, condensate, blowdown and settling drums, and vent gas knockout drums.

Challenge

Process conditions that level instrumentation must contend with include high temperatures, high pressures, foaming, and steam. An interface level gauge in drums that are susceptible to foaming will help avoid foamover and increase coke drum output.