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BPCL : SO2 Emission Control & Monitoring System
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
BPCL has 35 furnaces at their Mumbai Corporate Office. While manufacturing
crude of various types, these furnaces emit SO2 (Sulphur Dioxide) in large
quantities, which is hazardous to health and to the overall environment. The
Refinery has implemented an Environmental Management System to ensure that the
surrounding environment is free of pollution. With the ever escalating prices of
crude, processing of High Sulphur opportunity crudes has increased in Refineries
all over the world. Hence it is necessary to implement systems, which would help
in effectively monitoring and controlling SO2 emissions.
Earlier, the monitoring was done manually. Data from four different systems
had to be compiled manually. By the time, the data used to get compiled it was
of no use as the emission had already happened and could not be controlled. To
eliminate and overcome the existing problems, the team came up with an
innovative idea to implement a system that would integrate with MES, Laboratory
Information Management system(LIMS), Fuel monitoring system, SAP etc, and store
data in a central repository.
Energy & Environment section in Technology department along with the help of
IT department (CSS) worked together and developed an integrated IT Solution
system with role based access model, enabling to streamline the processes,
improve productivity and empower users. The system is integrated with LIMS
(Laboratory Information Management System) to capture latest results of fuel and
with IP21 a real-time database system to capture Crude processed in plant units.
It is integrated with the fuel monitoring system & thus fuel quantities & types
of fuel are directly fed to the system. Currently, it has a database of 50
crudes (Sulphur content) which have been processed in the Refinery. For the
given date, all related data are fetched automatically from other systems and
shown to the user. After verification and based on the captured details SO2
emission value is calculated by the system. With the SO2 emission monitoring &
control system in place, the pollution levels with respect to SO2 will be
controlled through effective monitoring, thereby contributing to a better, more
pollution free environment.
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M.D. Agrawal,
DGM (IS REF) |
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