Petrochemical and Petrorefining Industries
The petrochemical industry is one of the largest and most important industries in the world, which plays a key role in the economy of countries. The world’s petrochemical industry, with more than 20 million employees and annual sales of 5 trillion dollars, acts as the cornerstone of many industries that produce final goods such as agriculture, automotive, construction, and pharmaceutical products. This industry faces many challenges and risks, including the possibility of leaks, explosions and other problems that can lead to human and financial losses. Many accidents and explosions can be prevented by quickly diagnosing problems and disturbances. Also, by optimally using equipment and preventing sudden breakdowns, maintenance and repair costs can be reduced. In addition, continuous monitoring and receiving real-time information about the status of equipment can help improve processes and increase production. All these things can be achieved with the help of Internet of Things.
Industry 4.0 brings together advanced digital and physical technologies to provide a better physical-to-digital connection, and this can potentially transform the petrochemical industry by improving strategic growth and streamlining operations. More importantly, these technologies are now advanced enough to integrate with petrochemical companies’ core marketing and transformation processes to digitally transform manufacturing operations and enable intelligent supply chains and factories like the model Make commercially usable products. The fourth industrial revolution is an important stimulus for the smartening of the petrochemical industry. Petrochemicals, like other industries, generally face basic strategic and structural challenges. The development of the market of companies in this industry and the desire to enter the global markets requires a stable and safe supply chain if the interaction between all its components is managed in a clear, transparent and efficient way.
Natural disasters, leaking oil and gas pipelines, communication and regulatory restrictions are the challenges that always stand in the way of the oil and gas industry. Some information in refineries must be continuously reviewed and monitored. These monitoring include monitoring the level of the tanks, the thickness of the pipes, the flow rate and the pressure of the pipes, which are some of these key and important parameters. Changes in temperature, pressure and flow are very important issues. For this reason, any small changes should be measured using accurate and sensitive devices to avoid human disasters. Poor monitoring can have consequences such as the loss of company assets, fines due to pollution and even life risks. The largest volume of oil and gas production often occurs in harsh and remote environments where there are very few communication networks, which makes monitoring and monitoring very difficult and expensive.
The Internet of Things allows us to monitor more parameters using technology at the sensor level, perform measurements less often manually, collect more data and information to improve process optimization. . By using wireless sensors, more information is collected and this information is analyzed and improves the processes. By means of Internet of Things, information review and monitoring is done in a short period of time, which includes monitoring the level of tanks, thickness of pipes, flow rate and pressure of pipes. If this information is to be reviewed and monitored by human resources, it will take a lot of time and money, and despite this technology, an opportunity is provided to obtain more and more accurate information, information that will ultimately improve the performance of the work to a higher capacity. By using the Internet of Things, we will achieve the goals of optimizing the production line, analyzing errors and finding solutions, and reducing costs, and also in a wider perspective, using this technology, greenhouse gases will be reduced and with Finding solutions can increase oil production and manage gas resources intelligently. Gases may be wasted during the refinery process, which can be calculated using the accurate calculations of Internet of Things sensors and finding a solution to prevent gas wastage.
