Smart Manufacturing for the Oil Refining and Petrochemical Industry

Zhihong Yuan; Weizhong Qin; Jinsong Zhao

doi:10.1016/J.ENG.2017.02.012

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Engineering ›› 2017, Vol. 3 ›› Issue (2) : 179-182. DOI: 10.1016/J.ENG.2017.02.012

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Smart Manufacturing for the Oil Refining and Petrochemical Industry

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Smart manufacturing will transform the oil refining and petrochemical sector into a connected, information-driven environment. Using real-time and high-value support systems, smart manufacturing enables a coordinated and performance-oriented manufacturing enterprise that responds quickly to customer demands and minimizes energy and material usage, while radically improving sustainability, productivity, innovation, and economic competitiveness. In this paper, several examples of the application of so-called “smart manufacturing” for the petrochemical sector are demonstrated, such as the fault detection of a catalytic cracking unit driven by big data, advanced optimization for the planning and scheduling of oil refinery sites, and more. Key scientific factors and challenges for the further smart manufacturing of chemical and petrochemical processes are identified.

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Smart manufacturing / Petrochemical / Data-/information-driven environment

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Zhihong Yuan, Weizhong Qin, Jinsong Zhao. Smart Manufacturing for the Oil Refining and Petrochemical Industry. Engineering, 2017, 3(2): 179‒182 https://doi.org/10.1016/J.ENG.2017.02.012

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Acknowledgements

The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support from Sinopec Jiujiang Company. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the fruitful discussions with Prof. Bingzhen Chen at the Department of Chemical Engineering of Tsinghua University.

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Zhihong Yuan and Jinsong Zhao declare that they have no conflict of interest or financial conflicts to disclose.

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