Virtual instruments in refineries

Author

Fortuna, Luigi ; Graziani, Salvatore ; Xibilia, Maria Gabriella

Volume

8

Issue

4

fYear

2005

Firstpage

26

Lastpage

34

Abstract

Environmental quality monitoring must have large data acquisition and distribution systems for industrial plants. In particular, refineries must comply with government laws that enforce strict limits on product specifications and pollutant emissions, thus pushing them towards adopting increasingly efficient measurement and control policies to monitor these process variables. The article presents representative examples of the design of virtual sensors devoted to the monitoring of processes in oil refining. The examples were selected to outline different aspects of the design and application of virtual sensors.

Keywords

computerised monitoring; data acquisition; environmental factors; oil refining; process monitoring; sensors; virtual instrumentation; computerised monitoring; data acquisition; data monitoring; environmental factors; environmental quality monitoring; oil refineries; oil refining; process monitoring; virtual instrumentation; virtual instruments; virtual sensors; Data acquisition; Environmentally friendly manufacturing techniques; Government; Industrial plants; Industrial pollution; Instruments; Oil refineries; Particle measurements; Pollution measurement; Refining;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Instrumentation & Measurement Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1094-6969

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MIM.2005.1518619

Filename

1518619