AM-01-21 WEB BASED REMOTE MONITORING OF PRODUCTION DATA

Description:

The World Wide Web has created new ways to access real time production information. This paper describes a project at the U.S. Oil & Refining Co. Tacoma, WA refinery to upgrade the management information infrastructure to provide remote access to refinery data for a number of applications. The major work involved was adding and validating the data, not the actual deployment. This has entailed installation of a new lab system, upgrade of the Distributed Control System, upgrade of the Oil Movements System, and installation of several new gateways to capture information. Programs added to increase information include data reconciliation, heater/boiler tracking models, heat exchanger tracking models, crude unit model, reformer performance reporting, water treating chemical reporting and catalyst activity reporting. Deployment applications include real time benchmarking from Solomon Associates, reformer remote engineering by UOP, Distillate Hydrotreater remote engineering by Criterion, and refinery chemical usage for complex billing/accounting of water chemicals by Betz. Proposed extensions will include energy trading and expansion of the enterprise monitoring and analysis tools. The entire system is hosted and deployed to the web using the IndustrialEvolution web portal – a server especially designed for subscription of information.