Petrochemie

When the pipeline network of the refinery meets the transformation of Industry 4.0, have you ever envisioned those monitoring equipment that operates continuously in a high-temperature and high-pressure environment, and what exactly does it rely on to maintain the smooth flow of data? In the petrochemical industry, the reliability of the equipment is almost demanding field, industrial control machine is quietly staged the role of “steel guardian”. An international energy giant’s engineers have privately revealed that they deployed in the Arabian desert oil wells remote monitoring system, three consecutive years of trouble-free operation of the secret lies in the industrial computer’s unique wide-temperature resistant architecture – this can be in the 65 ℃ high temperature is still maintained in milliseconds to respond to the hard-core design of the traditional commercial equipment can not be expected.

With twenty years of experience in the field of industrial automation, we understand that equipment in the petrochemical industry is not an exhibit in a thermostatic laboratory. What you may not know is that around a catalytic cracking plant, the ICPC not only has to withstand hydrogen sulfide corrosion, but also has to ensure that the control signals of the DCS system do not lose packets in an environment with strong electromagnetic interference. That’s why our team of engineers customizes triple protection solutions for each project – from IP67-rated sealing treatment for interfaces, to chemical-resistant processes for motherboard coatings, and even specially developed explosion-proof models that meet IECEx certification.

Take the project delivered to a refinery in East Africa last year, their biggest headache was how to make the SCADA system collect data stably during the sandstorm season. Our solution is to use a fanless design of embedded industrial computer, through the special air duct structure and metal shell active cooling technology, not only to avoid the intrusion of sand particles, but also to solve the problem of high temperature and frequency reduction. What surprised the customer is the modular expansion design – when the need to add corrosive gas monitoring module, engineers on-site in 10 minutes to complete the collection card plug-and-play, without having to return to the factory to upgrade the whole machine.

Can you imagine how an industrial control machine can realize secure data transmission in an area where explosion-proof requirements reach Zone 1 level, such as an oil transmission pumping station? The solution we designed for a national strategic oil reserve depot uses fiber-optic isolated communication + hardware encryption double insurance. While other brands of equipment are still using software firewalls, our hardware TrustZone security chip has wrapped the OPC UA protocol data with a “bulletproof vest”. This kind of technical strength dancing on the tip of the knife is exactly the backbone of petrochemical companies who dare to entrust their critical control systems to us.