Measuring, managing and recording precisely how much is entering and exiting a facility is essential to control revenue and maintain operational effectiveness. Scales are used to weigh, control and record material quantities before and after transportation and during the processing phase, to ensure accurate inventory management.
Scales and weighing systems for the gas industry
Safety is paramount in the gas production sector, which is why facilities and transportation providers rely on weighbridges and weighing systems to maintain safety and prevent overloading. Ensuring vehicles and tankers are operating within legal weight limits is essential to avoiding costly fines, and, more importantly, accidents.
Weighbridges and weighing systems in the gas sector must be highly accurate, reliable, and built to withstand tough environmental conditions. When paired with sophisticated software or indicators, they create a weighing and recording system to meet most performance requirements, as well as provide any necessary compliance. Systems like this are often used within the gas sector for inventory management, transportation and measuring recipe formulations.
For the gas industry, the price of transportation is based on the weight of the material to be transported. Highly accurate weighing systems are required to measure and record the weight of raw materials so that the supply chain can carefully manage transportation costs, and calculate transportation emissions.
Equipment within the gas sector, such as storage tanks, pipelines and vehicles must operate within safe limits at all times. To achieve this, weighbridges and axel scales are used to prevent overloading, ensuring that sensitive equipment does not exceed its safe loading parameters.
Electronic scales and weighing systems built for the oil sector must be safe to use in hazardous environments and potentially explosive atmospheres. ATEX scales limit the electrical and thermal energy available for ignition, making them explosion-proof and safe to use.
In some gas processing facilities, accurate weighing systems are used to measure different grades of raw materials. These are often blended to achieve desired product specifications. When paired with recipe control software and indicators, weighing equipment can be used to measure and control the proportions of each component, ensuring consistency and quality in the final product.
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