Wireless success story for Indian olefin plant
June 2009
Data Acquisition & Telemetry
With a large processing plant that is spread across a wide area, Reliance Industries (RIL) was experiencing challenges with obtaining reliable tank level and temperature readings at its olefin plant in Gujarat, India. As the largest private sector company in India, RIL recognised the business potential of moving to a wireless monitoring system.
The issue at hand stemmed from tapping transmitter signals of tank levels and temperatures from some of the farthest crude spheres in the petrochemical complex. The existing wired application was remotely located and required continuous troubleshooting and maintenance.
Finding a solution
RIL evaluated several vendors for a wireless monitoring application. The company was pleased with the results from its Honeywell distributed control system (DCS), so Reliance naturally considered Honeywell’s wireless monitoring solution. “Given Honeywell’s proven track record with our company, we made the decision to go with its OneWireless for our wireless monitoring needs,” said Mahendra Upadhyay, instrumentation manager, RIL Baroda GOP Plant.
The Honeywell OneWireless network is an industrial wireless mesh network that extends the process control network into the field to deliver applications that improve plant efficiency, reliability and safety. The wireless mesh network is formed with industrial wireless nodes, called multinodes that self-discover to create an industrial mesh network within seconds.
RIL installed Honeywell’s XYR 6000 wireless transmitters, achieving many benefits from Honeywell OneWireless, including:
* Improved employee safety by eliminating manual level monitoring.
* Avoided prohibitive wiring costs and reduced installation, operational and maintenance costs.
* Increased reliability and data accuracy helped meet and maintain regulatory compliance.
* Improved production efficiency through more accurate data.
* Improved quality of data to enable better decision making.
* Reduced maintenance requirements compared to wired transmitter alternative.
By tapping transmitters’ signals of temperature and level from the remotely located spheres, Reliance Industries saved costs from instrumentation cable, labour and maintenance. Monitoring and controlling tank liquid volume helps ensure data accuracy used for planning and scheduling and for financial statements. Since implementing Honeywell’s OneWireless, tank data is reliable and available in realtime – saving substantial time and money for Reliance.
For more information contact Debbie Rae, Honeywell Southern Africa, +27 (0)11 695 8000, [email protected], www.honeywell.co.za
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