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TERMINAL AUTOMATION SYSTEM
The Customer
ABB is one of the largest industrial, energy and automation companies in the world.
They provide services to the following:
- Power, gas and water
utilities
- Process industries such
as pulp and paper, metal and mining, chemicals
and pharmaceuticals
- Manufacturing and
consumer industries such as car manufacturers
and food and beverage companies
- Oil and petrochemicals
companies
- Channel partners, including wholesalers, distributors, original equipment manufacturers and system integrators
Terminal Automation System
ABB automated the marketing terminals of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited
(HPCL) at Vijayawada and Rajahmundry. The marketing terminals have product storage
and tank truck loading facilities for product dispensing at both locations. The
products handled are Motor Spirit (MS), Superior Kerosene Oil (SKO), High Speed
Diesel (HSD) and Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF). The most vital operations in the
terminals are:
- Product Receipt
- Product Storage
- Product Loading
Apart from these operational areas, there are other procedural service requirements
such as stock control, terminal security, maintenance, etc. The Terminal Automation
System (TAS) was implemented to assure safe, efficient and pilferage-free operation.
TAS encompasses loading rack controls, flow metering and control, tank farm management,
plant control and operation of product loading pumps and motorized valves, computerized
procedural services and the Managerial Information System. An average of three
hundred (300) trucks per day are treated.
The
primary responsibility of TAS is to ensure that
product loading at the terminal facilities takes
place in a secure, orderly, timely and
well-documented manner. TAS performs the following
functions:
- Validate terminal entry
and exit for tank truck loading
- Control loading at
loading bays/points, using Flow Control Units
and Card Readers
- Record and store truck
loading information
- Log events and generate
alarms
- Provide terminal
operator access to the system
- Provide multiple levels
of security for access to TAS
- Poll the Tank Farm Management system
ABB required modifications to the terminal configurations. This included the addition of
tanks, bays, products, arms, and flow control units, and the modification of card readers and
the bay configurations. ABB outsourced the study, development and implementation to i3.
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