Safely unlock refinery performance and efficiency with cutting edge measurement and automation
Oil refinery optimization to meet modern market and regulatory demands poses significant challenges for today’s oil industry. Environmental standards render new projects more costly and complex. All operations must reduce air pollution emissions (NOx), meaning costly upgrades to existing installations. Low sulfur fuel demand is placing a premium on the hydrogen necessary in its production. Competitive pressures demand high performance with maximum safety and production flexibility.
50%
of all refinery streams in the USA now pass through hydrotreaters for conversion, finishing, and pretreatment purposes. Hydrodesulfurization is the largest application of catalytic technology in terms of the volume of material processed. (Source: Topsøe H., Clausen B.S., Massoth F.E. (1996) Hydrotreating Catalysis. In: Anderson J.R., Boudart M. (eds) Catalysis. Catalysis-Science and Technology, vol 11. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg)
Featuring highly accurate and reliable measuring devices, and cutting-edge automation solutions, the Endress+Hauser portfolio enables new opportunities for enhanced control and operation of complex refinery processes, storage and loading/unloading facilities. Moreover, with cost and environmental pressures placing the emphasis more firmly on efficiency, reliability, and safety than ever before, such opportunities for oil refinery optimization have never been so compelling.
Drive plant efficiencies with maximum production availability
Enhance production performance, whilst sustaining health, safety and security compliance
Ensure alignment to the latest environmental standards
Applications
Measurement of crude distillation columns
Accurate and reliable measurement of crude distillation columns is critical for yield accounting, attaining production targets, planning and scheduling. The feed rate must be maximized, whilst ensuring that the mixture of crude types meets environmental specifications. Moreover, errors in measurements can lead to costly shutdowns or off spec products.
Our expertise in the field
Endress+Hauser engineers help design and select the right devices for your specific critical measuring points.
Ensure continuous level measurements with guided wave radar sensors
Integrate the Coriolis or Vortex flowmeter for accurate measurement in demanding environments
Enhance process availability and reliability, sustain safety
Ever stricter environmental regulations require significant reductions in the sulfur content of oil products, and such reductions can only be achieved through catalytic desulfurization in a hydrofiner. A key challenge for plant operators is to prevent channeling and hotspots within the hydrofiner for reliable desulfurization.
Our expertise in the field
Proven in use in many applications around the world, the Endress+Hauser multipoint temperature assembly MultiSens Flex contains multiple temperature sensors mounted in an individual nozzle. Your vessel requires only a minimal number of nozzles and openings to provide sufficient temperature measuring points for 3D monitoring and controlled, reliable desulfurization.
Avoid unplanned shutdowns using Thermocouples that can be retracted and changed during vessel operation, if needed
The investment cost for a typical steam boiler can be considerable, and yet the very same boiler can consume as much as five times its initial capital cost in annual fuel consumption alone. Marginal gains in steam boiler fuel efficiency can therefore bring significant gains in overall oil refinery financial performance.
Our expertise in the field
Endress+Hauser smart scale energy solutions for steam systems enable optimal steam boiler monitoring to unlock fuel efficiencies.
Gain visibility on fuel and steam consumption
Identify, qualify and allocate losses in the system
Zoom in refinery operation processes and applications
Benefits
As a refinery operator, you are under ever-increasing pressure to minimize costs, safety risks, downtime, and emissions while maximizing performance. Therefore you need a reliable partner that is here for the long haul. Our experienced team of engineers can help design and select the right devices for all of your critical measuring points to optimize your oil refinery process, while drastically eliminating the human risk factor.
50%
total cost of ownerships savings offered by the electronic dP.
Up to 50
measuring points per process connection can be freely directed in the fixed-bed reactor. As a result, you are aware of the real process optimization potential and you are able to predict catalyst life times.
5 to 15%
estimated savings generated from remote energy management solutions
Iplom SpA sought to optimize its refining process to extend catalyst life and to increase safety in a hydrodesulfurization (HDS) application through precise 3D temperature profiling.
Are you experiencing deviation alarms in your high pressure process vessels? In many high pressure vessels, redundant level technologies are employed to provide multiple level indications for safety.
Water, beverages, dairy products, chemicals or pharmaceuticals have to be analyzed every day. Choose the device best suited to your process needs from our comprehensive product portfolio.
Flowmeter
Flowmeter
Water, natural gas, steam, mineral oil, chemicals are some of the fluids that have to be measured day in, day out. Select the flowmeter best suited to your process needs.
Level
Level
Continuous level measurement and point level detection in liquids and bulk solids
Pressure
Pressure
Powerful instruments for process pressure, differential pressure, level and flow.
Software
Software
Apart from all relevant measuring and system technologies, we also offer appropriate software for all branches of industry that provide to run your operating processes at its full potential.
System products
System products
Applicator
Temperature measurement
Temperature measurement
Thermometers and transmitters for the process industry
Instrumentation Services
Instrumentation Services
Maximize plant performance, minimize OPEX, increase uptime, all with compliance. Partner with Endress+Hauser instrumentation services.
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