Delek Refining to use Honeywell’s CPS to upgrade refinery efficiency

Delek Refining will be using new Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)-based Connected Performance Services (CPS) to improve its refinery’s performance located in Tyler, Texas.

CPS is a section of Honeywell’s Connected Plant initiative that combines IIoT technologies and its UOP’s services with domain expertise to enhance different industrial operations such as supply chain efficiency and asset optimisation.

Delek will be using Process Reliability Advisor, a CPS solution that consistently analyses the process unit performance and identifies abnormalities.

The solution will assist the refinery operators to resolve these issues quickly and maintain the optimum performance of their units.

CPS solutions utilises current plant data and leverages Honeywell UOP process and fault models to provide important performance information and process recommendations.

Honeywell UOP CPS business vice president Zak Alzein said: “The process reliability advisor leverages Honeywell UOP’s deep troubleshooting experience and proprietary models to deliver detailed analysis and specific corrective recommendations days or months earlier than has ever been possible before.

“This will allow Delek to avoid downtime and improve its operations.”

The process reliability advisor is effective in reducing unplanned shutdowns and repairing costs by providing the refineries, petrochemical and gas processing plants greater control of the operations. Quick detection of problems and their solutions increase efficiency and productivity of the plant.

Alzein said: “By bringing literally decades of experience to a refinery, Reliability Advisor can close the growing knowledge gap that is forming as these facilities become more complex and skilled personnel enter retirement.”

Honeywell is an international supplier and licensor of process technology and equipment to the petroleum refining, petrochemical and gas processing industries.