Chemical Equipment Update
Fig. 1. The Yara Sluiskil plant.
Environmental, safety and integrity issues are becoming ever more important in the chemical storage industry today. Jerry Worsley reports.
Les questions d’environnement, de sécurité et d’intégrité deviennent de plus en plus importantes au sein de l’industrie du stockage chimique d’aujourd’hui. Reportage de Jerry Worlsley.
Umwelt-, Sicherheits- und Integritätsprobleme werden in der modernen Chemikalienlagerung von heute immer wichtiger. Ein Bericht von Jerry Worsley.
Improving efficiency and safety at Europe’s largest ammonia plant
accurate monitoring. With conventional vessel monitoring technology
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there is a gap between what is thought to be occurring and what is actually happening. Distributed fibre optic sensing technology developed by Sensornet, the global provider of the most advanced digital monitoring solutions and part of the Tendeka family, overcomes the limitations of traditional measurement technologies by closing the monitoring gap.
Distributed fibre optic sensing has several
advantages over conventional sensors. As the fibre is the sensor the measurement is totally non intrusive and can be easily strapped to the outside of the
s plants and facilities become larger in scale, more complex and more remote, maximising safety and minimising risk requires an absolute understanding which is provided by
vessel. The fibre provides its own communications path so no additional tie cables are required. Most importantly Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) using optical fibres enables you to capture data every meter at near real time speeds. Sensornet recently installed and commissioned
two of its Halo DTS systems and sensing cables at the largest ammonia plant in Europe to provide the continuous process monitoring of two reactor vessels. By providing reliable, real-time data, the company
brought a number of significant benefits to the client, Yara, the Dutch global company active in industries ranging from food production to emissions control. Yara is the world’s largest supplier of mineral fertilisers, the world’s largest supplier and trader of ammonia, and a global leader in a wide range of chemical products. The ammonia plant, at Sluiskil in the
Netherlands, is located on the Ghent-Terneuzen
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