Chemistry & Petrochemicals

In the petrochemical industry, protection requirements are even more common than in the chemical industry. The basic and intermediate products obtained from pure oil usually form highly explosive mixtures when in contact with air. Various final products from the petrochemical industry are used as input materials in the chemical industry. Therefore, process reliability and plant availability play an important role in the petrochemical industry when it comes to automating the process variables. With new diagnostic modules, deviations of the default values  can now be identified more quickly. Example: analyzing switching cycles or changes in temperature, pressure, current or voltage.

The control of microorganism proliferation is one of the most challenges in chemical and biological laboratories. There is a high risk to harm the result of researches or products because of sterilized material contamination, causing non-compliance in strict procedures. The control requirement is even greater inside hospital facilities, as the chances of cross-contamination increase. With the adequate monitoring and control of the temperature, humidity, and pressure of the sterilized areas, it ensures a safe environment for such activities.

In the case of a reference hospital in southern Brazil, it was also necessary to monitor the temperature of incubators, industrial stoves, metrology baths, refrigerators, and freezers. The wireless gateway used to create a wireless sensor network was fundamental to the application because it reduces the risk of contamination. Integrated with field data storage, it was possible to store data directly in the on-premises hospital server. The decrease in contact contamination occurred because the previous procedure was downloaded the data locally through the USB port and the new procedure allows the automatic download, which means that all data are available for the responsible employees. 

Control: contain the proliferation of the microorganisms.

Sterile information: no contact with the device, data available on the server.

Segurity: data reliability and quality for your services.

Oil is a non-renewable primary energy source that is widely used around the world. Its extraction must be carried out quickly and efficiently, and investments need to include technology that rationalizes resources and continually enhances production. With this in mind, companies  looking to achieve high levels of productivity use mobile onshore production rigs. These pieces of equipment operate autonomously and are responsible for performing their own maintenance and procurement operations, like cleaning, restoration, stimulation and evaluation of oil wells. These processes produce a wide range of data, therefore supervision and management become essential as they help to better understand the processes and find ways to improve them. NOVUS has complete solutions for the acquisition, storage and monitoring, either onsite or via the Internet through a Cloud based data Hosting Platform such as NOVUS Cloud Process data is continuously stored, and can be accessed from anywhere and at any time by the user from a mobile device or a computer with internet access. These solutions offer: ? High availability of information in real time; ? Reliability and traceability of production conditions; ? Historical records and data storage kept onsite or in the Cloud; ? Generation of reports; ? Alarm notification onsite, by email and / or SMS.

For the chemical industry, process safety and consistent product quality are crucially important for economic production. NOVUS solutions help reduce risks and costs throughout the plant life cycle, whilst utilizing all of the potential savings and improving the performance of the process. To optimize the production process and create the potential for significant synergy NOVUS uses fully integrated automation concepts to make safe, tailor-made and effective products. NOVUS tailors systems and solutions for laboratories through to large plants from the ground level to management level. The integrated automation of chemical production has the following benefits: ? Clarity of investment and operating costs; ? Reduced commissioning times; ? Increased transparency and viability of the plant; ? Increased competitiveness.

The chemical industry has had large investments in automation to optimize, in real time, the operation of its plants since the beginning of the 1990s. The investment in automated chemical and petrochemical processing plants is aimed at making highly reliable plants and achieving operational optimization, in order to generate greater financial returns for the industry, while at the same time, protecting people and the environment. At the operational level, it?s possible to safely, economically and profitably maximize the production of certain products, showing a clear increase in efficiency, security, reliability and predictability that can often be translated into large economic gains, as well as other intangible benefits. Frequent and extensive measurements of the state of the processing units are used as the basis for optimization, this generates a large amount of data, which is used in mathematical models and other analytical tools to provide a comparison between the actual performance and the desired performance. Thus, it is possible for decision making and any other action, to be done with greater confidence, based on the best available forecasts, as opposed to the traditional scheme, which is characterized by reactions to what just happened.