Communications/Telemetry
The importance of wireless communication continues to grow as its health, safety and cost benefits gain wider appreciation, Sean Ottewell reports.
La importancia de la comunicación inalámbrica sigue creciendo, al mismo tiempo que sus ventajas en cuanto a salud, seguridad y coste se valoran cada vez más, informa Sean Ottewell.
Die Bedeutung der drahtlosen Kommunikation steigt, da ihre Vorteile hinsichtlich Gesundheit, Sicherheit und Kosten immer mehr anerkannt werden, Sean Ottewell berichtet.
Benefits of wireless reach a wider audience
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Fig. 1. System installation costs can be reduced up to 50 per cent and implementation time by up to 60 per cent with Raptor.
pprion has completed an expanded wireless system of tank gauge monitoring capabilities for Huntsman Corporation’s manufacturing
facility in Port Neches, Texas, USA. Te enhanced infrastructure at the facility includes the ION tank gauging application, additional Apprion IONizers and more wireless monitoring and safety devices throughout. Apprion first deployed the industrial
wireless infrastructure in 2009 as a part of Huntsman’s project zero safety plan to eliminate injuries, defects, and environmental releases at the facility. Te Port Neches facility extended its
wireless application infrastructure with additional applications that provide highly reliable tank gauging capabilities to gather data remotely in real-time from tanks in the facility.
Te extended system combines the ION tank gauging technology with the existing wireless ION system infrastructure and ION mobility application for a fully integrated solution
and further extends the infrastructure to easily add more applications in the future. Te ION tank gauging application is one of many in Apprion’s fast-growing family of industrial applications, which encompass applications for asset location, communications, system monitoring, video and mobility. Prior to this implementation, the tank gauge data collection process at Huntsman Port Neches required proactive manual access, often in locations that were technically difficult for operators to reach. Huntsman implemented the ION tank gauging application to unify disparate tank gauging hardware technologies into a single dashboard for a complete view of tank conditions and status. By combining the existing ION System infrastructure with additional WiHART IONizers for tank gauging, and integrating these with the ION System dashboard, personnel have easy access to tank gauging data from all tanks in the facility that previously required manual access. Data collection and remote monitoring is much more efficient, cost effective and safe than it was previously. Huntsman personnel have a dashboard view into critical tank data, leading to accurate measurement and monitoring of inventory levels and a dramatic decline in loss from environmental incidents. With the ION tank gauging application, operators can now easily monitor remote control stations and are no longer required to execute time-consuming, inefficient, error-prone manual data collection processes.
Cost benefits Emerson Process Management says that tank farm automation is now easier, faster and less costly with the integration of its Rosemount Raptor tank gauging systems and smart wireless technology. System installation costs can be
reduced up to 50 per cent by wirelessly
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