The economic environment is changing rapidly and competition now takes place on a global scale. In addition to adapting to these changes in the economic environment, the petrochemical industry must also respond to society’s increased emphasis on health, safety, and environment (HSE) issues. For the petrochemical industry to achieve growth under these conditions, it is crucial to develop competitive, value-added products, and to install flexible production systems that can quickly adjust to market changes. This means that plant operations are now at a key turning point. They must reduce manpower and pursue other initiatives to operate more efficiently while at the same time maintaining safety and stability and implementing measures to protect the environment.
A number of Yokogawa solutions are introduced below that can help ensure plant efficiency and enhance HSE. The Yokogawa ProSafe-RS Safety Instrumented System is also highly effective in improving plant safety. |
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| Continuous Emission Monitoring |
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| Our continuous emission monitoring system for utility boilers and heating furnaces utilizes an infrared gas analyzer to monitor CO, CO2, NOx, SO2, CH4, and O2 concentrations in flue gas, helping bring petrochemical companies into compliance with environmental regulations. |
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Operator Training |
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Less experienced operators tend to run into difficulties when they encounter new situations and unexpected problems, and this presents a serious challenge in maintaining HSE. Training operators with a simulator is one effective way to address this concern. Plant operators can be quickly brought up to speed in performing both routine and non-routine operations as well as troubleshooting.
Yokogawa’s OmegaLand, integrated environment for dynamic simulator provides operators realistic training in a virtual environment. Training is available for procedures such as plant startup and load change, abnormal conditions such as an instrument or equipment failure, and emergencies such as earthquakes, fires, and runaway reactions. |
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| Avoiding Unnecessary Plant Shutdowns with Effective Alarm Management |
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Workloads often increase faster than process reengineering efforts, causing operators to be inundated with recurrent alarms.
Alarm Flooding Going Unattended:
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esults in oversights, delays, and incorrect operations |
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Leads to a higher risk of overlooking critical information that can lead to a hazardous situation |
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Avoid alarm flooding and empower your operators for safe and effective operations by using a practical, overarching, and real-time alarm management system.
Consolidated Alarm Management System (CAMS)
Alarm rationalization
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Suppresses nuisance alarms |
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Enables the right information to be delivered to the right people at the right time |
Well-managed and real-time alarm management
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Sorting by priority in case of alarm flooding |
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Operation instruction |
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