Integrated Power And Automation Systems: Future Trends For Pipeline System Efficiency

摘要

Running pumps along the pipeline at maximum power and maintaining flow with a control valve is no longer the best and most cost-effective course of action. With uncertain future energy costs, leading pipeline operators require energy efficiency. There is a trend to modernize, reduce noise and air pollution, remove high-maintenance, gas-powered engines and turbines, and replace them with electrically driven, quiet, non-polluting motors with variable speed drives.rnMultiple industries have employed Electrical Integration as the optimal way to integrate their process, electrical, and maintenance systems. These include power generation, oil refineries and platforms, and chemical plants. Now the pipeline industry can join in on the benefits of Electrical Integration in order to reduce energy costs through better insight to the process areas and equipment that drive energy consumption.