Instrument Solutions for all Industries – New Era, Same Commitment
ABLE Instruments & Controls Ltd, formed 40 years ago in 1985, are currently the largest independent process control instrumentation supplier in the UK. ABLE develop and manufacture instrumentation solutions for a broad range of industries, encompassing Oil & Gas, Petrochemical, Chemical, Food & Beverage, Power and Utilities.
With a comprehensive portfolio of measurement solutions underpinned by highly experienced engineers and a support team providing extensive project management services, ABLE enters its fifth decade of trading remaining faithful to the principles on which the company was founded, to provide solutions, not just product, and to support equipment anywhere in the world its deployed. Today, operating as an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT) ABLE employs 33 people and enjoys an annual turnover of around £10 million. At the core of this enterprise is a wide range of measurement disciplines including flow, level, pressure, temperature, liquid analysis, toxic gas detection and many more
Whilst boasting many mature value-added supply and distribution relationships, some of which date back to the company’s inception, ABLE has developed, and owns the patents for, several highly innovative products where they own the IP. For example, the SlugMaster combines two different ultrasonic flow metering technologies, which are combined into an intelligent meter, so that the meter itself makes the decision about which of those two technologies to apply, depending upon what it “sees” in the process being measured. For offshore produced water lines, which are notoriously difficult to monitor, these can include gas, solids and particulates, and this is where SlugMaster has demonstrated its value with sustained measurement when conventional meters would be compromised.
ABLE have also developed a flare metering enhancement system known as FlareMaster, which through flare gas composition analysis, highly accurate density measurement and sensor redundancy, has significantly reduced flare metering uncertainty for several North Sea Oil & Gas operators. The ability of FlareMaster to quantity nitrogen and methane in flare gas is ABLE’s contribution to the pursuit of Net Zero. ABLE’s philosophy remains quite simply that there is no way to assess the impact of a proposed solution unless the results are being measured. Therefore, whilst the design of efficient sample systems and computers is important, the real goal lies in the increasing excellence of the actual sensors at the sharp end of the measurement.
ABLE values its alliances with key principals such as Magnetrol (level & flow), McCrometer (DP flow) Rheonik (Coriolis mass flow), Ametek Brookfield (gas and moisture) and Canty (liquid analysis by vision), supplying a balance between traditional measurement methods and cutting-edge technology. The search for new partners is ongoing, to strengthen ABLE’s presence in the traditional markets and open the door to some new ones.
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