Advanced Sensors’ exponential growth

Source: Energy Digital

Date :31/03/2008 09:26:59

Having grown rapidly in the last three to six months, Advanced Sensors MD Khalid Thabeth reveals how partnerships and excellent service have resulted in an expanding product portfolio.

Written by Lucy Mowatt and produced by Alex Smith

Khalid Thabeth helped to found the Northern Irish company Advanced Sensors in June 2005, and has seen its products develop from the prototype stage through to global popularity. Based in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, it has state of the art laboratories and offices, which customers are encouraged to visit.

Twelve people are based at these facilities and Mr Thabeth explains, “Our laboratory is staffed with a broad base of highly skilled professionals including Photonic specialists that are responsive to the diverse challenges of our customers.” In 2008 Advanced Sensors will be enhancing the team further by recruiting additional engineers and graduates.

Legislation

The disposal of the enormous amount of water is a by-product of oil production. This is monitored carefully by governments; most legislate the level of oil permitted in produced water. A typical legislative figure is 30 parts oil in every million parts of water. Khalid Thabeth says: “The legislative limit for oil discharge is being reduced almost year on year. Most oil Companies have adopted the environment as a key performance indicator and totally committed to meet the environmental legislative discharge quota.”

Historically the measurement of oil in water was performed manually in a laboratory, four to six times a day. The Advanced Sensors EX range of Oil in Water monitors measure continuously, providing measurement in real time to facilitate the dynamic management of the process, these measured values are recorded within the instrument for ten years.

Customers are also benefiting from the extensive dynamic measurement range of the instrument, at 0 – 20,000ppm, Mr Thabeth explains, “Initially the instruments were targeted at measuring discharge, but the companies that adopted the units have placed them within the process between separator stages; this provides real time data and enables them to manage each stage more effectively, identifying any bottle necks, fixing them and increasing production…”

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