The Paulínia Refinery, Petrobras' largest, currently has the capacity to refine 360,000 barrels of oil per day. In 2000, the refinery decided to modernize its tank park with the installation of a new level and temperature measurement system. Saab Tank Control and Fluxo Soluções Integradas were chosen for this project, thanks to the good results in the facilities for the Revap, Reduc and Rlam refineries. The scope of the project corresponded to the automation of 87 fixed-roof tanks and 74 floating-roof tanks, totaling 161 equipped tanks. Among the main stored products, diesel, gasoline, naphtha, kerosene and asphalt stand out.
A particularity of the Replan project was the use of redundancy at the signal concentrator (FCU) level in three areas of the tank park. For each network of these redundant systems, there are two FCUs in a configuration called hot stand-by. One of the FCUs, designated active, is responsible for scanning the network and obtaining temperature, level and alarms data from the tanks. The second FCU is limited to "listening" to traffic on the network. In case of failure of the main FCU, the secondary one automatically takes control of the network, at the same time an alarm is passed to the control system.
Another feature of the installation was the fact that some floating roof tanks required a 5" still-pipe. At the time of the project, Saab only had still-pipe antennas up to 6" in diameter. To serve Petrobras, a new 5" antenna was designed and manufactured in record time. In all, Saab supplied 30 antennas.
The project was completed in 11 months and was approved by Mauro Blauth, manager of new projects at Replan and responsible for implementing the system: "the equipment is operating within our expectations", says the engineer.
The Paulínia Refinery, Petrobras' largest, currently has the capacity to refine 360,000 barrels of oil per day. In 2000, the refinery decided to modernize its tank park with the installation of a new level and temperature measurement system. Saab Tank Control and Fluxo Soluções Integradas were chosen for this project, thanks to the good results in the facilities for the Revap, Reduc and Rlam refineries. The scope of the project corresponded to the automation of 87 fixed-roof tanks and 74 floating-roof tanks, totaling 161 equipped tanks. Among the main stored products, diesel, gasoline, naphtha, kerosene and asphalt stand out.
A particularity of the Replan project was the use of redundancy at the signal concentrator (FCU) level in three areas of the tank park. For each network of these redundant systems, there are two FCUs in a configuration called hot stand-by. One of the FCUs, designated active, is responsible for scanning the network and obtaining temperature, level and alarms data from the tanks. The second FCU is limited to "listening" to traffic on the network. In case of failure of the main FCU, the secondary one automatically takes control of the network, at the same time an alarm is passed to the control system.
Another feature of the installation was the fact that some floating roof tanks required a 5" still-pipe. At the time of the project, Saab only had still-pipe antennas up to 6" in diameter. To serve Petrobras, a new 5" antenna was designed and manufactured in record time. In all, Saab supplied 30 antennas.
The project was completed in 11 months and was approved by Mauro Blauth, manager of new projects at Replan and responsible for implementing the system: "the equipment is operating within our expectations", says the engineer.
The Paulínia Refinery, Petrobras' largest, currently has the capacity to refine 360,000 barrels of oil per day. In 2000, the refinery decided to modernize its tank park with the installation of a new level and temperature measurement system. Saab Tank Control and Fluxo Soluções Integradas were chosen for this project, thanks to the good results in the facilities for the Revap, Reduc and Rlam refineries. The scope of the project corresponded to the automation of 87 fixed-roof tanks and 74 floating-roof tanks, totaling 161 equipped tanks. Among the main stored products, diesel, gasoline, naphtha, kerosene and asphalt stand out.
A particularity of the Replan project was the use of redundancy at the signal concentrator (FCU) level in three areas of the tank park. For each network of these redundant systems, there are two FCUs in a configuration called hot stand-by. One of the FCUs, designated active, is responsible for scanning the network and obtaining temperature, level and alarms data from the tanks. The second FCU is limited to "listening" to traffic on the network. In case of failure of the main FCU, the secondary one automatically takes control of the network, at the same time an alarm is passed to the control system.
Another feature of the installation was the fact that some floating roof tanks required a 5" still-pipe. At the time of the project, Saab only had still-pipe antennas up to 6" in diameter. To serve Petrobras, a new 5" antenna was designed and manufactured in record time. In all, Saab supplied 30 antennas.
The project was concluded in 11 months and was approved by Mauro Blauth, manager of new projects at Replan and responsible for implementing the system: "the equipment is operating within our expectations", says the engineer.