CCI's QuickTrak™ – The Intelligent Digital Valve Controller

For the plant operator seeking a simplified, worry-free approach to severe service control valve actuation, CCI unveils QuickTrak™ , a technologically unique valve actuation system that literally puts peak performance and reliability at your fi ngertips. CCI President Stuart Carson remarks, "QuickTrak™ is a quantum leap in control technology that demonstrates CCI's continued leadership in the severe service valve and control industry."

CCI's QuickTrak™ actuation system is specifically designed to meet the performance requirements of severe service applications such as turbine bypass, compressor recycle, nuclear vent, feedwater regulator, auxiliary steam, and boiler control applications. This revolutionary system offers all of the latest features of pneumatic "smart" positioners (including diagnostics and compatibility with Hart® and other protocols) in an all- in-one total actuation system that is free from cumbersome mechanical linkages to make your process more efficient and easier to control.

In contrast to competitors' systems, QuickTrak™ provides highly accurate rapid valve positioning without the burden of volume boosters, quick exhaust valves, or massive arrays of tubing and fittings. The system boasts reduced hysteresis and deadband and better than 0.25% resolution. In addition, the QuickTrak™ system can be remotely mounted for fast, easy set-up and isolation from vibration, temperature, and hazardous environments. A uniquely designed electronic feedback module prevents non- linearity of the feedback signal to improve plant performance.

The exclusive design of CCI's QuickTrak™ also makes system tuning a breeze. Typical pneumatic actuators require that personnel tune multiple components one by one to achieve system stability. Smart positioners cannot tune the actuation system alone, and small changes are difficult to achieve, making tuning tedious and time-consuming. With QuickTrak™, however, the controller automatically calibrates with an easy user interface. Thus tuning takes just seconds – not hours – and the system maintains its calibration between system outages, eliminating the headache of complex and recurring tuning procedures.

Finally, the performance of CCI's QuickTrak™ system is in a class by itself – its capacity is over 50 times higher than that of existing smart positioners. CCI's QuickTrak™ system features extremely fast stroke speed with no visible overshoot, stiffer actuation providing hydraulic- like performance, and instantaneous response of less than 200 milliseconds dead time on seat, making it ideal for applications that demand fast, accurate, and reliable control. Saving you valuable time, energy, and money, CCI's QuickTrak™ will bring tomorrow's technology to your process today.

CCI's QuickTrak™: A quantum leap in control technology

Before QuickTrak™: Complicated schematics and reduced stability

After QuickTrak™: Superior performance and remiability in a compact system

Published in SOLUTIONS Spring 2004