At a state-of-the-art facility near the Houston Ship Channel, WIKA designs and manufactures cutting-edge temperature sensors and diaphragm seal assemblies for energy and chemical companies in the United States and around the world. Our presence in Pasadena, Texas, …
An energy company suspected that some of the tubeskin thermocouples in their process units weren’t accurate, but they didn’t know which ones were off. WIKA’s R&D Testing Center in Houston pinpointed the culprits and advised the customer on which sensor and …
Condition monitoring is key to safety and efficiency in the process industry, but the tendency of electronic thermometers to drift under certain conditions means the temperature data that operators receive isn’t always reliable. WIKA solves this problem with an …
An energy company’s process furnaces were experiencing excessive coking, leading to wasted energy and frequent downtimes for tube cleaning. After installing WIKA’s Tefracto-Pad ® thermocouples, the energy company enjoyed longer run lengths between decoking …
Energy companies around the world, including in the U.S., have converted some of their petroleum refineries to produce renewable diesel instead. Others are planning to do so. Temperature monitoring of catalyst beds, using multipoint thermocouple assemblies, plays a key …
