Executive Summary
Korean Gas Corporation, Incheon, South Korea
Established by the Korean government in 1983, Korea Gas Corporation (KOGAS) is the world's largest importer of LNG, and the country's sole importer of this important resource. KOGAS is fully committed to providing clean, safe, and convenient energy to the people of Korea. The company currently operates LNG receiving terminals in Incheon, Pyeongtaek, and Tongyeong, and distributes natural gas and gas by-products via a 2,739 km pipeline network to power plants, gas utility companies, and city gas companies throughout the country.
The Incheon LNG terminal is the world's largest LNG receiving complex, and it supplies natural gas to the Incheon and Seoul metropolitan areas, which account for 40% of the country's natural gas demand. Built on a 990,000 m² plot of reclaimed land 8.7 km off the coast, the terminal has two plants with a jetty capable of accommodating two ultra-large LNG carriers of up to 100,000 tons in size and a total of ten 100,000 m³ above-ground storage tanks, two 140,000 m³ underground tanks, and eight 200,000 m³ underground tanks, giving it a total storage capacity of 2,880,000 m³ (Kl). The total gas send out capacity of the Incheon terminal is 4,350 tons per hour.
In 1996, Yokogawa Korea installed a CENTUM CS production control system at plant 1 of the Incheon terminal, and migrated this system to CENTUM VP in 2011. With the construction by KOGAS of plant 2 in 2004, Yokogawa Korea installed a CENTUM CS system, and subsequently installed another CENTUM CS 3000 system in 2009. Engineering work is now underway at plant 2 for migration to CENTUM VP. The Incheon terminal utilizes Yokogawa's CENTUM systems for the control and monitoring of facilities throughout both plants, including unloading arms, storage tanks, recondensors, open rack vaporizers (ORV), submerged combustion vaporizers (SMV), and trunk lines with metering stations.
The Challenges and the Solutions
1. Safe operation
At LNG receiving terminals, safety is a paramount concern with the transfer and storage of LNG from carriers. It is very important to maintain a constant pressure inside the storage tanks, which requires careful control of the operation of boil-off gas (BOG) compressors, recondensors, and pumps. By means of sequence functions, CENTUM operators can easily control the process from a remote location, starting and stopping the BOG compressors depending on BOG temperature, gas composition, and volume. In addition, KOGAS has a disaster protection system for dealing with critical situations, and personnel in the central control room can share information in real time with operators in plants 1 and 2, ensuring a timely and well coordinated response if fire or a gas leak is detected.
2. Steady gas supply
It is very important for KOGAS to be able to adjust flexibly to shifts in demand in the gas that it supplies to power plants, industrial companies, and residences. While seawater in an ORV is normally used to cool and vaporize the LNG, in periods of peak demand operation can be automatically switched over to an SMV that relies on the combustion of BOG to vaporize the LNG. Every aspect of these vaporization processes, from the switching on and off of pumps to the control of vaporization temperature and gas pressure, is carefully configured in the CENTUM system. The adjustment to shifts in demand is fully automated at this terminal, ensuring uninterrupted supply.
3. Proactive maintenance for asset excellence
Systems from other vendors that control the plant's offloading, tank gauging, pipe line monitoring, metering, and other processes are all integrated via a Modbus interface with each plant's CENTUM production control system. The data from these processes is used to make production reports, calculate plant efficiency, and analyze performance. For example, operators use an accumulated running time report to track how long each LNG pump, air compressor, and other rotating equipment throughout the terminal has been operating. This enables a proactive approach to the scheduling of inspections to determine when repair or replacement will be necessary. This puts the right information at the right time into the hands of the right operators and managers, so they can make timely and correct decisions. The system can also generate the following types of reports used by plant specialists to analyze overall performance of the LNG terminal as well as individual processes:
- LNG cost analysis
- Electric power consumption
- Fuel gas consumption
- Unit operation cost
- Daily cost analysis
- LNG unloading
- BOG treatment
- Odorant treatment
- Running time accumulation
- Yield accounting
CENTUM VP operator in central control room
Customer Satisfaction
People at the KOGAS Incheon LNG terminal, says, "With CENTUM and other systems, we have built an enterprise-wide operating information system. The visualization of all process data allows us to maintain a clear picture of the execution of our business plans, create optimal LNG supply chain scenarios, and make quick decisions and timely adjustments. With the CENTUM system, operability and safety are enhanced, and operators as well as managers can maximize the effectiveness of their activities." They went on to say, "We appreciate the continual support and the solutions that Yokogawa Korea has provided us. Yokogawa is one of our best partners."
KOGAS Incheon LNG terminal
업종
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LNG 인수기지 (LNG Regasification & Storage)
전 세계 44개의 LNG 인수기지(재기화)는 Yokogawa의 DCS를 사용합니다.
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LNG 공급망
Yokogawa의 전 세계 LNG 프로젝트 혁신에 대한 의지는 1970년대로 거슬러 올라갑니다. Yokogawa는 풍부한 경험과 포괄적인 솔루션 포트폴리오를 통해 LNG 공급망의 탁월한 운영역량을 달성했습니다.
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터미널
오늘날 석유, 가스 및 석유화학 산업뿐만 아니라 LNG/LPG 및 벌크 산업에서 많은 최종 사용자가 일반적인 물류 문제에 직면해 있습니다. 이러한 과제에는 제품 납품 시간 단축, 로딩 효율성 개선, 제조 프로세스 변경, 안전성 향상, 관리 효율성 증대, 인건비 절감, 데이터 시스템 통합, 운영 시각화, 트래픽 관리 등이 포함됩니다.
Yokogawa는 수십 년 동안 터미널 자동화 및 관리에 대한 고객의 요구를 충족시키는 솔루션을 제공해왔습니다.
Related Products & Solutions
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CENTUM VP
CENTUM VP는 HMI(Human Machine Interface), FCS(Field Control Stations), 제어 네트워크(Control Network)로 구성된 단순하고 일반적인 아키텍처를 가지고 있습니다.
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Distributed Control System (DCS)
10,000개가 넘는 플랜트의 운영자는 매년 생산 목표를 달성하기 위해 Yokogawa의 DCS 기술과 솔루션을 신뢰합니다.