Huntsman automates remote tank gauge monitoring
1 Aug 2012
Mountain View, California – Huntsman Corp. has installed an expanded wireless system of tank gauge monitoring capabilities at its manufacturing facility in Port Neches, Texas.
The enhanced infrastructure at the Huntsman Port Neches facility includes Apprion’s ION tank gauging application, additional Apprion IONizers and more wireless monitoring and safety devices throughout the facility.
Apprion first deployed the industrial wireless infrastructure in 2009 as a part of Huntsman’s Project Zero safety plan to eliminate injuries, defects, and environmental releases at the facility.
The Huntsman Port Neches facility extended its wireless application infrastructure with additional applications that provide tank gauging capabilities to gather data remotely in real-time from tanks in the facility.
The extended system combines the ION Tank Gauging technology with the existing wireless ION System Infrastructure and ION Mobility application and extends the integrated infrastructure to enable engineers to more easily add applications in the future.
Prior to this implementation, the tank gauge data collection process at Huntsman Port Neches required pro-active manual access, often in locations that were technically difficult for operators to reach.
Huntsman implemented the ION tank gauging application to unify disparate tank gauging hardware technologies into a single dashboard for a complete view of tank conditions and status.
By combining the existing ION System infrastructure with additional WiHART IONizers for tank gauging, and integrating these with the ION System dashboard, personnel have easy access to tank gauging data from all tanks in the facility that previously required manual access
Huntsman personnel have a dashboard view into critical tank data, which allows more accurate measurement and monitoring of inventory levels. It can also reduce the potential for significant losses due to environmental incidents.
With the new tank gauging application, operators can now easily monitor remote control stations and are no longer required to execute time-consuming, inefficient, error-prone manual data collection processes.
