OMV Petrom SA, Bucharest, has let a contract to Honeywell International Inc. to provide a suite of software-based technology and interactive support services aimed at improving productivity, efficiency, and profitability of the CCR Platforming unit at its 4.5-million tonne/year Petrobrazi refinery in the southeast region of Romania, near Ploiesti City.
As a means of providing prescriptive monitoring of the CCR Platforming process unit—which upgrades low-value naphtha into high-octane gasoline and aromatics—OMV will use the Honeywell Connected Plant’s Process Insight Reliability Advisor to continuously feed plant data through Honeywell UOP LLC process and fault models to provide key performance information and process recommendations, the service provider said.
The Reliability Advisor will help the plant run more smoothly and mitigate issues that impact production and plant profitability by detecting and analyzing problems before they occur, Honeywell said.
Honeywell did not disclose a value of the contract or a timeline for implementation of the technology.
This latest contract follows OMV Petrom’s start of construction last year on a grassroots 200,000-tpy unit at the refinery slated for commissioning in early 2019 that will convert LPG components into Euro 5-quality gasoline and middle distillates (OGJ Online, July 19, 2017).
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