In petrochemical plants, continuous monitoring and proactive maintenance of assets is critical to maintaining process equipment availability and increasing productivity. Honeywell's Asset Effectiveness solution is a comprehensive package for monitoring all types of plant assets, from field devices and control systems to rotating equipment and analyzers. This condition-based maintenance approach results in a tightly integrated, process-centric approach to problem identification and solution as opposed to a device-centric approach focused on device operation only.
Honeywell’s Asset Effectiveness solution for Petrochemicals is a significant productivity tool that improves business performance and profitability by:
Honeywell’s Asset Effectiveness solution has many critical applications in petrochemical plants. For example, field operators can record visual inspections of furnace tubes using MobilePKS devices, combined with process data, to provide a more detailed picture of the furnace operation. Vibration monitoring of the ethylene plant cracked gas compressor can be combined with a control loop performance analysis of the suction pressure controller to determine possible problems in compressor operation. In aromatics plants, para-xylene plant operation can be monitored by bringing information into a DataScout application from the third-party system controlling the rotary valves and adsorbent chambers.