Pipeline
Management
The pipeline segment of the industry faces the challenge of efficiency increase and recognizes more and more the need for improving energy management, while reducing emissions. The current energy market requires to achieve new levels of profitability and better control of complex pipeline networks with real-time, systems-level integration across operational and commercial processes.
Stock Tanks
Online Advanced Control:
- Virtual measurement
- Track inventory
- Mass balance reconciliation
- Optimal Scheduling
Station, Liquid
Turbomachinery Control Applications:
- Station Master Control
Turbomachinery Control Applications:
- Real-Time Simulation
- Station Analytics, KPIs
- Station Optimization
- Optimal Scheduling
Unit, Liquid
Turbomachinery Control Applications: Unit Engine Control:
- Gas Turbine Fuel / Guide Vanes
- Gas Engine Torque/Speed
- Electrical Motor VFD
Unit Pump Control:
- Throttle Valve Performance Control
- Capacity Control
Online Unit Advanced Control:
- Unit Parametric Diagnostics
- Unit Analytics, KPIs
- Pump Performance Map
- Engine Performance Map
Pipeline
Online Advanced Control:
- Assist in achieving optimal operation by tracking energy usage and providing suggested set points to save energy while maintaining the required throughput and safe operation
- Improve process stability, allowing operation closer to target,
- Support operator decisions by providing actionable data
- Monitor and predict system flows
- Ensure network balancing by monitoring inventory as well as flows to and from the system
- Determine the optimal operating mode of each pumping station and drag reducing agent injection point (for liquid pipeline)
- Create Dynamic Key Performance indicators(KPIs)
Pipeline Analytics
Online Advanced Control:
- Flow assurance
- Pipeline operational management
- Strategic, operational, and capacity planning
- Operational prognosis
- Compressor optimization
- Line pack management
- Batching
- Slugging detection
- Leak detection
- Pig tracking
- Pressure limit tracking
- Ability to define multiple component streams
- Condensation and liquid tracking
Online Station Advanced Control:
- Real-Time Simulationl
- Station Analytics, KPIs
- Station Optimization
- Optimal Scheduling
Unit, Gas
Turbomachinery Control Applications: Unit Engine Control:
- Gas Turbine Fuel / Guide Vanes
- Gas Engine Torque/Speed
- Electrical Motor VFD
Unit Compressor Control:
- Throttle Valve Performance Control
- Surge Control
- Capacity Control
Online Unit Advanced Control:
- Unit Parametric Diagnostics
- Unit Analytics, KPIs
- Compressor Performance Map
- Engine Performance Map