AVOIDING THE BLIND SPOTS FOR OIL & GAS/PETROCHEMICAL PROCESS CONTROL
There is tremendous profi t margin to be earned by monitoring dark/opaque materials. Preventative maintenance is too restrictive. The idea is not to limit process control from lack of primary data availability, accuracy and proper measurement. True “End to End Process Control”.
With 4IR Solutions’ proprietary Petroleum Analyser you can fi nally monitor dark or opaque materials. Go beyond traditional lab or conventional on-line analysers with magnetic based technology located on your production fl oor. Increase profi ts by taking your process control and production optimisation to the next level of the 4.0 revolution.
Leaders in the oil and gas/petrochemical industries have defi ned two major objectives for continued growth: optimising production for maximised profi ts; and secondly, disrupting the conservative ecosystem of the industry in order to revitalise and attract new technologies and dynamic new thinking.
In the digital 4.0 industrial era, adopting innovative process control and process automation technologies can help achieve both goals.
Every refi nery and petrochemical plant strives to optimise production through innovative process control and automation, thus increasing yields and profi t margins and meeting stringent product regulations and safety requirements. Even the smallest detail can yield considerable savings. This calls for intensive monitoring of the manufacturing process at every turn.
Although the oil and gas/petrochemical industries have begun
to embrace cutting-edge 4.0 technologies, they have identifi ed limited projects, such as predictive analytics for preventive maintenance with AI capabilities based on machine learning. “Preventive maintenance is only one step in improving the manufacturing process”, as Nir Dranov, Director at 4IR Solutions explains. “Taking the 4.0 revolution all the way will enable leading oil and gas companies to stretch the margin of each refi ned barrel of oil signifi cantly and increase refi ning capacity.”
Don’t stop at half-mast. Go all the way when adopting 4.0 technology.
The limitation of optical technologies (NIR, FT-IR, IR and Raman) is their inability to effectively and productively measure dark and opaque materials. This means the data availability for process control is effectively blind. Blind spots, from which data are not received, are located on more than half of the production fl oor.
The following diagram of a generic refi nery shows the limitation of optic-based analysers (black stars) for effective data availability.
Currently, half the locations in the plant are blind spots, which are not monitored (red stars). By placing 4IR Petroleum Analysers
The following diagram of a generic refi nery shows the limitation of optic-based analysers (black stars) for effective data availability.
in the red star locations, process engineers in the control room will receive online real-time data for crude oil and other opaque materials and achieve 100% coverage of all production. The red stars are unique locations where only Process NMR Analysers can provide reliable, accurate and timely measurements.
Information is power. What you cannot measure you cannot manage/control.
“Imagine you could cover the blind spots. What if you could get online, real-time measurements for dark and opaque materials from the production fl oor directly to your control room”, says Tal Cohen 4IR Solutions CEO. “For crude oil feed and its opaque distillates such as diesel, gas oil or residuals the accuracy of the results from our AI-60 analyzer is comparable to those from the standard lab-testing methods used in the industry today. The difference is - you receive our results every 5 minutes! This means you can optimise and control your production process seamlessly. You no longer have to wait a whole day for lab results! “
In the most advanced oil and gas or petrochemical plants, a control room includes a digital command center that collects real-time information from all business units. Using smart
Currently, half the locations in the plant are blind spots, which are not monitored (red stars). By placing 4IR Petroleum Analyzers in the red star locations, process engineers in the control room will receive online real-time data for crude oil and other opaque materials and achieve 100% coverage of all production. The red stars are unique locations where only Process NMR Analyzers can provide reliable, accurate and timely measurements.
In the most advanced oil and gas or petrochemical plants, a control room includes a digital command center that collects real-time information from all business units. Using smart analytical models, AI and big data, operational insights and recommendations are generated. However, if data is received only from 50% of the production fl oor, the process control cannot be optimal. This affects effi ciencies for the entire company.
PIN April / May 2022
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