Description

Refinery offsite automation helps to manage real-time blending as well as oil movements. The involved database holds all relevant data, the configuration of blending, and oil movement. The graphical interface is used to automatically schedule and plan blend and oil movement, retrieval of laboratory test reports (LIMS), etc. This topic discusses refinery offsite automation islands, fuel blending integration islands, client-server architecture, system architecture, the typical technology set, required interfaces, process and system interfaces, offline blend optimizer interfaces, tank qualities tracking system interfaces, online blend control interfaces, etc.