Oil & Gas Downstream

• Smooth project execution with no schedule and/minimal safety incidents.
• Easy to use, easy to reconfigure interface that has resulted in numerous post-installation enhancements.
• Minimizing day-to-day plant operation problems including reducing the alarming factor.

Un control de procesos fiable y seguro es uno de los factores de éxito de las empresas de la industria petroquímica. Durante décadas, dicho control se supervisaba y coordinaba desde las salas de control, situadas próximas al proceso. Para el personal y las plantas lo más seguro es que las salas de control se encuentren a mayor distancia. Gracias a la virtualización, la reubicación de la sala de control fue mucho más fácil. Yokogawa ofrece una solución de virtualización lista para usar, que bp ha utilizado para reubicar una de sus salas de control.

Life Cycle Agreement ensures a continuous and satisfactory performance of BAPCO's CENTUM DCS and ProSafe-RS system.
Under the agreement, Yokogawa will provide comprehensive services such as system healthiness check, 24/7 emergency support, etc.

Yokogawa provided JCCP with an immersive and practical virtual field training curriculum using VR technology JCCP's training with this solution has received high praise from participants in oil & gas producing countries.

• Successful migration of in-line blending distributed control and oil movement systems.
• To minimize operator intervention and to keep the product properties on specification.

• CENTUM CS 3000 plays key role in Malaysian waste oil to diesel project.
• Yokogawa proposed to provide its systems and services as the main instrument vendor.

• To replace the existing CENTUM XL control station with the latest Yokogawa CS 3000 hardware and upgrade the control network.
• The plan was to minimize plant downtime by doing a hot cutover from the old to the new control system.

• This has considerably improved the safety, quality, and efficiency of off-site operations.
• Yokogawa was the clear choice for installation of the OMS.

Universal Terminal (S) Pte Ltd, one of the largest independent petroleum products storage terminals in the Asia Pacific, has been built on Singapore's Jurong Island at a cost of S$750 million.

• Smooth and safe switchover to the new system
• Easy-to-use, easy-to-engineer system, plus various post-installation enhancements
• Tuned controllers for smooth plant operation and better traceability of process upsets
• Various other improvements thanks to advanced process control and MVC implementation

• Exapilot was introduced to maximize operational efficiency at an experimental refining facility.
• To prevent operator errors, it was essential to standardize operating procedures.

• Flawless refinery start-up assured by operator training simulator.
• The virtual test function of the OmegaLand simulator created the same environments as CENTUM CS 3000.

• Computerized Maintenance Management System by PRM and SAP Schedules Field Instrumentation Maintenance.
• The frame applications and DTMs support the preventive maintenance strategy with self-diagnostic and condition monitoring.

PetroChina Guangxi Petrochemical Company has completed construction of a combined refinery and petrochemical production complex in Qinzhou, a port city in China's Guangxi Autonomous Region. With a 10 million ton per year capacity, the refinery is one of China's largest, and is truly world class, using a highly advanced hydrogenation process, with the main process technologies coming from the USA and France.

• To decrease downtime and maintenance costs, the decision was made to introduce Yokogawa's CENTUM DCS.
• With well-experienced MAC approach, Yokogawa replaced successfully legacy DCS.

The Mathura refinery is a strategically important facility that supplies diesel, gasoline, aviation turbine fuel, kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas, furnace oil, and bitumen to customers throughout northwestern India.

• HMEL selected an integrated solution from Yokogawa
• Yokogawa India oversaw and implemented the engineering, installation, and commissioning of the refinery

• The AR1 refinery recently replaced its legacy DCS with Yokogawa's CENTUM CS 3000.
• Achieving an Intelligent Oil Management System.

• Stable regeneration of butane driers and effective start-up of sulfur recovery plant.
• Exapilot contributes to operational consistency and procedure management in large refinery plant.

• Using the CENTUM CS 3000 system, many kinds of plant key performance indexes are calculated and analyzed to produce further improvements.
• During plant start-up, PRM helps the customer's engineers perform all the loop checks.

• Exapilot contributes to safety, reduces cost, and retains operational know-how.

• Integrated CENTUM VP and ProSafe-RS Systems Ensure Nonstop Operation of ADU/DKU Processes.
• "This is a real VigilantPlant! We will continue to improve our production efficiency."

• The project goals emphasized schedule, quality, cost and safety.
• More than 40 sub-system interface cards are utilized for b14 partners company7s system integrated with CENTUM CS 3000.

• Yokogawa's FA-M3 PLC improves efficiency and accuracy at the lubricant blending processes in Thailand.
• FA-M3 is integrated with SFC Excellence's enterprise resource planning and recipe management system.

• Exapilot smoothly starts up and shuts down the world's biggest experimental distillation unit.
• Data visualization is the key, giving operators a complete understanding of what is is going on in the process, in real time.

Operators must receive diagnostic information before a line block leads to a malfunction. Yokogawa provides predictive diagnostics based on trend analysis of the blocking factor, which improves maintenance efficiency and reduces maintenance costs.

Reactor/Furnace Wall Healthiness Monitoring with a Fiber Optical Temperature Sensor

• Fast online gas chromatograph (GC) analysis for LPG distillation.
• The analytical upgrade project with Yokogawa's process GCs was complete success.

One of the most common applications for differential pressure transmitters is flow measurement. DPharp differential pressure transmitters have some unique signal conditioning features to eliminate instability at low flow rates.

The top gas generated at the top of a distillation column in a petroleum refinery's fluid catalytic cracker (FCC) is used to produce gasoline and LPG. The GD402 Gas Density Meter features an intrinsically safe and explosion-proof design, fast response, and a dust-proof, anti-corrosive, and flame-proof construction.

With industrial and economic development comes increasingly large and advanced power plants and factories. Nevertheless, we find many cases where the original cables, cable tunnels, and other components of the power infrastructure have languished under continuous operation.

Monitoring of Soundness of Power Supply Bus Bar (In-vehicle Lithium-ion Battery Applications)

O₂ measurement in hydrocarbon vapor is used for safety monitoring in vacuum distillation columns in petroleum refining. With conventional paramagnetic oxygen analyzers, O₂ concentrations are obtained through an extractive sampling system, which conditions the sample prior to being analyzed.

Fired heaters are used for various processes in oil refining and petrochemical plants.

Delayed Coker is a type of coker who's process consists of heating residual oil feed to its thermal cracking temperature in a furnace. The most important variable in industrial furnace control is temperature. Temperature is measured throughout the furnace in different zones and temperature effects the materials being manufactured and therefore must be precisely monitored to prevent deviations in quality of the final product.

Challenges

• The distance is not so long, but there are many pipes and tanks ("Pipe Jungle") in the field.
• Had to avoid the obstacles and take care multi path condition.  

Solution

Repeater is installed on high place between control room and monitor position. The extend cable is used for antenna of Gateway.

• Temperature Transmitter (YTA) x1, Pressure Transmitter (EJX) x2

DP Level transmitter configuration can be very time consuming. Yokogawa DPharp EJA/EJX Pressure transmitters realize reduction in man hours by smart level setup feature.

To defray energy costs, many industrial plants have their own boilers to generate steam in order to produce a portion of their energy needs. In addition to generating power, the steam may also be used directly in plant processes or indirectly via heat exchangers or steam jacketed vessels.

Reverse osmosis (RO) is a separation process that uses pressure to force a solution through a membrane that retains the solute on one side and allows the pure solvent to pass to the other side. More formally, it is the process of forcing a solvent from a region of high solute concentration through a membrane to a region of low solute concentration by applying a pressure in excess of the osmotic pressure.

Storage tanks are used in a variety of industries ranging from holding crude oil to holding feedstock for vinyl chloride monomer (VCM).

Industrial Combustion sources such as thermal cracking furnaces and, process heaters play a critical role in the process industry.

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This article describes the tasks performed to develop and implement a real time, online model for energy cost minimisation and energy management at KNPC's MAA refinery.

After a description of the main project implementation tasks, the Real Time Energy Management System's (RTEMS) functionalities are described and the optimisation implementation procedures are commented on. Finally, several obtained results are presented.

Rohm and Haas Company is one of the world's largest manufacturers of specialty materials, including adhesives, sealants, coatings, monomers, electronic materials, inorganic and specialty solutions, and ion exchange resins. Founded in 1909 by two German entrepreneurs, Rohm and Haas has grown to approximately $6 billion in annual revenues.

Alarm management is not just a project that has a start and end date; it's a continuous cycle. Once the alarm system has been reviewed and improvements have been identified, we must check that controls are in place to ensure the alarm system remains functional. The key is to ensure that the system is continuously monitored and any changes are fully documented. There are seven key steps for alarm management. Rationalization is one of those critical steps.

This paper shows how to improve distillation operations by focusing on procedure automation. It will review the importance of using procedures in distillation operations and highlights the collaboration work underway between Fractionation Research Inc. (FRI) and Yokogawa Corporation to improve procedural operations.

The world of process automation is governed by procedures. While we like to refer to the process industries as being largely "continuous", this could not be further from the truth. Process manufacturing is constantly in flux.

In ARC's view, customers need a compelling business value proposition to justify investment in any kind of automation. Vigilance and VigilantPlant were created with this in mind. Yokogawa's vision with VigilantPlant is to create an environment where plant personnel and operators are well informed, alert, and ready to take action. 

High volumes of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), typified by trichloroethylene and tetrachloroethylene, have long been used in various industrial fields for their high degrees of industrial usefulness. On the other hand, there is a growing awareness of environment preservation today, and of the fact that we face serious environmental pollution due to such harmful VOCs.

Migration of a refinery's DCS provided an opportunity to reconfigure and consolidate the control rooms and operational management system.

July 2011

Process plants are run according to operational procedures. These procedures consist of a set of tasks that are executed in a consistent manner to achieve a specific objective, such as starting up, shutting down or transitioning a unit as part of making a product. 

April/May 2007

A Yokogawa ProSafe-RS safety instrumented system (SIS) will be the nucleus of a new fire and gas safety system at Shell's Clyde (NSW) refinery. The contract includes the control system, system engineering and installation and supervision.

In times of abnormal operations, systems are configured to produce lots of data – humans are not configured to handle or interpret them. However, when presented with the right information, in the right context, during an abnormal condition, humans are able to do things machines cannot.

Process automation in oil refineries is undergoing major changes, driven by customers frustrated by what they consider to be slow and incremental advances from the main automation original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in the industry. ExxonMobil has become a de facto industry representative and is driving vendors like Yokogawa and others to reevaluate how large-scale automation projects are implemented.

Using wireless technology for monitoring a variety of measuring points in Industrial Plants has becoming a very attractive choice for plant managers. Today, the plant manager is able to build a quick and cost effective network solution to enable flexible information acquisition and to improve maintenance efficiency and safety.

Visual MESA Systems empower improved operational efficiencies in real time

CONTROL, January 2013

Standard Automation Methodology Improves Operations and Prevents Incidents by Enabling the Sharing of Best Practices Among Operators.

ARC believes that by implementing procedural automation, many process plants can minimize variability to help ensure smooth, efficient, and safe state transitions.

Assets and operations will have human-like learning and adaptive capabilities, allowing responses without operator interaction to situations within a secure, bounded domain.

Process automation systems are increasingly connected to IT systems and the outside world, introducing cybersecurity concerns, which can be addressed using techniques such as software-defined networking and monitoring services.

Chet Mroz, President & CEO Yokogawa North America, discusses the benefits of IoT at the 2015 ARC Industry Forum in Orlando.

As a gateway to further expand Yokogawa's messaging as a One-stop Solution Business, Yokogawa has partnered up with INCIT, to introduce the S.I.R.I. framework.