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Charlotte Stonestreet
Managing Editor |
Electric & pneumatic actuation
01 January 2017
In a recent contract, Rotork’s facility at Calgary has fitted IQ3 intelligent electric actuators to fifteen gate valves, sized 42", 48" and 60", and shipped them to the Suncor Fort Hills oil sands mine project in the Athabasca region of Alberta in Canada.
Operating gate, ball and triple offset butterfly valves, the actuators control the flow in applications including extraction, froth treatment, hydro-transport and primary refining, handling bitumen, slurry, water and steam.
The valve torque profiling and datalogging abilities inherent in Rotork products are also recognised as effective tools for asset management at Fort Hills, which has been designed to utilise Suncor’s latest technology and approach to tailings (water, sand, clay and residual oil) management and reclamation processes.
