Oil & gas
DENMARK’S LARGEST REFINERY DRIVES DIGITALISATION
Kalundborg Refinery, Denmark’s largest energy park, is located in the northwest of the Zealand peninsula. Every year, it processes around 5.5 million tons of crude oil, condensate, and raw materials. This industrial environment places special demands on the communication devices used. For communication, maintenance, and inspection in the field, the energy park staff relies on intrinsically safe mobile devices from Pepperl+Fuchs. The previous stock of Ex-Handy 10 and Smart-Ex 02 will now be gradually replaced by the 5G- capable Smart-Ex 03 smartphone to drive digitalisation.
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or years, Kalundborg Refinery in Denmark, part of the Klesch Group, has been relying on the expertise of Pepperl+Fuchs and its subsidiary brand ECOM Instruments. Pepperl+Fuchs supports
Kalundborg’s digitalisation initiatives with special mobile devices certified for use in hazardous areas. The refinery’s mobile workers currently use over 100 Ex-Handy 10 and Smart-Ex 02 devices. The tasks include various inspection tasks, machine data collection, adherence to safety and compliance regulations as well as evaluation of plant integrity and service life. For a long time, the associated processes were paper-based and therefore prone to errors.
FROM PAPER-BASED TO DIGITAL PROCESSES To further digitalise the processes at Kalundborg, the hardware was to be brought up to the state of the art. Right from the start of the project, it was clear that the solution should depend on other internal company databases and ERP systems as little as possible. The goal was to keep the entry barrier low and the implementation period ambitiously short, while at the same time meeting the requirements for the next digitalisation stage and the needs of mobile workers. Therefore, one of the most important criteria for new end devices was that they had future-proof technology such as 5G and a high-quality,
high-performance camera. When the Kalundborg team evaluated the first demo devices of the Smart-Ex 03, it quickly became clear that the new solution should be built around the 5G-capable Android smartphone with all its advantages, including usability. In search of the right platform for their digitalisation project, Kalundborg evaluated various software solutions. It turned out that some solutions would have required a lot of time to implement the digitalisation project. The Kalundborg team opted for a solution from the Danish provider Azenzus. It is quick and easy to implement within a manageable project timeframe, easy to use, optimises the existing data handling, and takes asset management to a new level.
FROM PLANNING TO IMPLEMENTATION Originally, the project plan envisaged that all processes and data would also be available in paper form in case problems arose during the
October 2024 Instrumentation Monthly
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