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About Us
Overview
Twelve years prior to founding
TubeMaster, Inc., Cliff Johns
founded VESCO Engineering, Inc.
to provide a wide variety of
technical services focused on
measuring and analyzing
electronic sensor data,
evaluating for problems and
providing corrective designs
and remedies. In 2001,
TubeMaster, Inc. was created
and spun off from VESCO
Engineering to focus
exclusively on developing and
implementing new and patentable
technologies related to saving
time and improving quality for
catalyst-handling activities,
as well as improving
efficiencies at chemical,
petrochemical and refinery
plants world-wide.
Today, TubeMaster, Inc. is
“Changing The Way The World
Changes Catalyst” with our goal
of being the first and best in
world. Our premier technologies
offer superior client value
compared to present methods and
we strive to further advance
these technologies with
continuous improvement and licensing
agreements.
Our flagship and patented
TubeMaster® System has
revolutionized the manner in
which pressure-drop measurements are made on
catalyst-packed tubes
especially in multi-tubular
reactors in terms of
unsurpassed speed and accuracy (10 tubes at one time).
Also, our Automatic Blowdown
System™ (ABS) for dust blowing
and pig pushing has greatly
improved dust blowing (10 tubes at one time) and the
efficiency of pushing foam
pigs, forcing foam plugs down
each tube to swab them clean of
dust.
In the chemical, petrochemical
and refining industries where a
tubular reactor or bank of
reformer tubes loaded with
catalyst generates between a
few thousand dollars up to many
thousand of dollars an hour in
profit, and where efficient
operation of each tube is
dependant on the degree of its
uniform packing density among
all tubes, quality and speed in
testing after catalyst loading
is everything. When
multi-tubular reactors were
placed into broad use 30 years
ago, the method of testing
pressure-drop was relatively
simple – one tube-at-a-time was
tested often with poor
accuracy, lots of human errors
and few improvements in speed. TubeMaster, Inc. was the first
to successfully transform these
age-old testing problems and
deliver significant cost
savings for the catalyst user
industry.
Today, TubeMaster, Inc. is the
leading the way in global
development of new technologies
and products for the
catalyst-packed tube industry
having introduced four major
innovations in just our first
year and two more in the first
quarter of 2004.
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The TubeMaster® System’s
patented equipment and software
for its testing technologies
allows each person to
pressure-drop test (sometimes
referred to as d/p testing) 10
tubes at one time using our
Tube Test Device (TTD) with primarily
single-button operation. All
data is transmitted wirelessly
to a highly integrated software
program that analyzes monitors
and records all pressure-drop
tests progress and results. The
TubeMaster® System’s speed
allows testing to be completed
by fewer people in much less
time: from 4–20 people
testing for 8–48 hours to
just 1-4 people testing for 1–8 hours, at present, and
perhaps even faster in the
future.
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Our Automatic Blowdown
System™ (ABS) provides
computer-controlled dust
blowing equipment and software
that, like the Tube Test Device
(TTD), each person can blowdown
ten tubes-at-once by pressing a
single button. In fact, the ABS
is so light and simple that one
person can operate 2, 3 or 4
ABS at the same time!
- We developed not one but two
tools to handle corrections of
tubes that are determined to be
out specification using two
versions of one
List-to-Fix™ Tool. Our List-to-Fix™ Tool is
a printed list of tubes that need
correction listed by row number
and tube number. Using the
List-to-Fix™ means that you can
skip sampling tubes to estimate
the specification altogether
and that the tubes that are to
be corrected can be selected
based on the dynamic analysis
of all data for all tubes
giving the client more
flexibility. Never sample
again! A printed
List-to-Fix™ Tool is a simple
list while our second tool, the Electronic
List-to-Fix™ Tool, includes a
laser and computer to properly
locate the tubes that need
correction. Never fix a good
tube again!
- Our newest innovation: Outage Loading Equipment™ (OLE’) provides more
efficient loading for
single-zoned catalysts and
eliminates costly steps.
In addition to our focus on
innovation, TubeMaster, Inc. is
focused on quality – quality
technologies and products,
quality service and a quality
experience for our clients. Our
unsurpassed speed, as well as
our astonishing safety record,
is the result of our team’s
high attention to detail up
front, not as an afterthought.
We strive to deliver a quality
experience with the highest
standards of professionalism in
everything we do and always
keep clients’ interests first.
Our pledge is to “treat our
clients’ reactors and
catalyst-packed tubes as if we
owned them ourselves”.
What Our Clients are Saying About Us
"Your equipment is impressive, and so are your people" - Petrochemical Plant Process
Owner
"Our contractor is the muscle, TubeMaster is the brain" - Petrochemical Plant Manager
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