Yan An Refinery China

China’s 4. largest oil producer, Yanchang Petroleum Group, to monitor compressors at crude oil refinery

As part of our fast and diverse expansion in China, Rovsing Dynamics in June received our first order for a condition monitoring solution for a refinery to be delivered in September 2008. The Yan An Refinery in the Shaan´xi province in central China has been operating since 1988 and processes 8 million ton crude oil into petrol for cars, diesel oil, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), solvent oil, benzene per year. It is owned by the Yanchang Petroleum Group, China’s fourth largest oil producer with a production of around 300,000 barrels/day from 3 refineries and 21 oil exploration firms.

OPENpredictor™ is going to perform online condition monitoring of three steam turbine driven centrifugal gas compressors and other compressors. The solution will also provide automated fault diagnostics (AutoDiagnosis™) with prediction of lead time to inspection. Such business critical information will help the refinery’s staff improve process uptime through minimized downtime of critical machinery, thus increasing revenue while reducing operational risk and cost. 

“The Yan An refinery project is a significant milestone for us,” says Rovsing Dynamics’ CEO Thea Larsen. “Not only is it our first of this kind in China and the first together with our new partner Beijing Air Emission Technology Development Co (BJAETDCO). It also marks our entry into the downstream petrochemical industry. Here producers face the same challenge of shorter reaction time to adapt to changing market demand as our upstream customers. And like these, refineries can gain significantly from integrating predictive operation and maintenance information and change from a re-active to a pro-active asset management strategy.”

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