Consolidation of Control Rooms for Achieving Safe, Stable and Efficient Operation by Refinery Operation Modernization Service - An Application Example at the Sodegaura Refinery of Fuji Oil Company towards an Ideal Refinery

摘要

The Sodegaura refinery of Fuji Oil Company has long been studying how to create an ideal refinery that can cope with the changing generations of staff due to the mandatory retirement of skilled operators. As a first step, it consolidated its control rooms and updated the control systems in June 2009. Through Refinery Operation Modernization Service, one of its VigilantPlant Services, Yokogawa proposed "an ideal refinery," "consolidation process of control rooms," "an image of the consolidated control room," etc. and worked together to standardize the operation procedures and consolidate the control rooms and control systems. This paper introduces the improvement activities towards an ideal refinery at the Sodegaura refinery and four solutions provided by Yokogawa to solve the customer's problems: solutions for the consolidated refinery production control system, consolidated control room, operation training system, and safety instrumented system for the refinery.