Top 10 news of intelligent manufacturing in the petroleum and chemical industry in 2022

Editor's note: 2022 is the year of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and it is also a key year
for China to march towards the second centennial goal.
The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly stated that it supports the development of "specialized, specialized and new" enterprises and promotes the high-end, intelligent and green development of
the manufacturing industry.
In 2022, China's petroleum and chemical industry will accelerate the wide application of a new generation of information technology, and continue to promote industrial transformation and upgrading and high-quality development
.
Throughout the year, intelligent manufacturing in the petrochemical industry presented three major characteristics: first, the industrial development was gradually standardized, the construction guidelines such as the intelligent manufacturing standard system of the petrochemical industry were issued one after another, and a number of national standards related to industrial Internet and digital transformation were released; Second, the construction of industrial infrastructure has been gradually consolidated to support the digital transformation of industries; Third, the concept of intelligent manufacturing has become more popular in the industry, and many chemical enterprises have been selected as the annual pilot demonstration of the integration of new generation information technology and manufacturing, and the application case of industrial Internet platform innovation
.
2022 is a year of full development of the digital economy, a year of accelerated digital transformation in the petrochemical industry, and a year
of fruitful achievements in the field of intelligent manufacturing.

The project of "counting from east to west" has been fully launched

On February 17, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Cyberspace Administration of the Central Committee, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the National Energy Administration jointly issued a notice agreeing to start the construction of national computing power hub nodes
in four places, including Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and Chengdu-Chongqing.
Together with the 4 nodes in Inner Mongolia, Guizhou, Gansu and Ningxia that have been approved for construction, the construction of eight computing power hub nodes has officially begun, 10 national data center clusters have also been included in the planning, and the overall layout design
of the national integrated big data center system has been completed.
The project of "counting from east to west" has now been fully launched
.

The relevant person in charge of the High Technology Department of the National Development and Reform Commission said that it is necessary to further increase the overall planning efforts, give play to the overlapping effect of policies, promote the optimization of computing power layout and institutional reform and innovation in an integrated manner, accelerate the influence and agglomeration of the eight computing power hubs, and drive the integrated and coordinated development
of national computing power.
First, it is necessary to strengthen the connection of network facilities; Second, it is necessary to strengthen the linkage of energy layout; The third is to support the integration of technological innovation; The fourth is to promote the expansion of the industry ecology
.

A number of industry insiders also said that "counting from east to west" is an important part of new infrastructure construction and the basic support
for industrial digital transformation.
With the advancement of digital transformation in the petroleum and chemical industry and the application of new technologies and equipment, the amount of data generated by enterprises will continue to increase, and the demand for computing power resources will also increase.

The first "dual-band 5G + industrial internetwork" intelligent refinery was completed

On June 21, China's first "dual-band 5G + industrial Internet" intelligent refinery construction project was completed and put into use at CNOOC's CNOOC Huizhou Petrochemical Refinery, realizing the update and iteration
of traditional refinery production methods through digital technology.

The smart refinery consists of 8 intelligent weapons and 1 ecosystem, including 5G explosion-proof intelligent inspection robot, 5G + AR remote collaboration, 5G operation AI monitoring, and digital application crowd-creation ecology, escorting the stable operation of the most important petrochemical product supply base in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area
.
The refinery innovatively combines dual-band dual-standard converged 5G private network and industrial Internet, combining the advantages of 700MHz and 2.
6GHz, which has wider coverage, more content and faster transmission speed than the original 4G network
.
Now the signal encounters obstacles, and it can "pass through and step over" to achieve stable and high-speed data transmission
.

The explosion-proof intelligent inspection robot applied in the production device of the refinery petrochemical plant can automatically avoid obstacles and intelligent climbing, replacing manual inspection; Employees wearing AR glasses can realize real-time remote "consultation" with experts; AI monitoring can realize static and dynamic and uninterrupted monitoring, automatically identify abnormal situations such as toxic gases and transmit on-site data
.
After the project was put into use, the automatic collection rate of production data exceeded 98%, the preventive maintenance rate of equipment reached more than 97%, the factory monitoring cost was reduced by 30%, and the production accident rate was reduced by 80%, which greatly improved the work efficiency and decision-making accuracy
.

The SMTO project is the first to use the national standard to achieve digital delivery

In June, Yulin Chemical Co.
, Ltd.
, a national energy group, completed the digital delivery test of the polypropylene plant and achieved preliminary results, realizing the reverse digital delivery of the Shenhua Shaanxi Methanol Downstream Processing Project (SSMTO) in the operating unit, and the huge database can be stored and retrieved
through a computer.
The project adopts AVEVA engineering design software, creating a precedent
for domestic coal chemical enterprises to apply national standards to achieve digital delivery.

It is understood that this digital delivery is in accordance with China's national standard "Petrochemical Engineering Digital Delivery Standard" implemented since March 1, 2019, based on the unified AVEVA engineering design platform, for tool software, digital delivery platform, three-dimensional model and other important aspects, put forward engineering design requirements, filling the gap
of domestic application of national standards to achieve digital delivery.

"This digital delivery establishes a three-dimensional visual digital archive, which not only realizes the query of enterprise engineering data and the reuse of reconstruction and expansion data, but also provides a data basis for building a digital twin factory, and also provides a unified standardized and digital delivery basis
for the subsequent construction of coal chemical projects.
" Sun Fusheng, deputy manager of the mobile engineering department of Guoneng Yulin Chemical, said
.

The first offshore oil and gas equipment manufacturing intelligent factory was put into operation

On June 26, China's first offshore oil and gas equipment manufacturing intelligent factory - CNOOC Engineering Tianjin Intelligent Manufacturing Base was officially put into operation
, located in the port area of Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone.

With a total area of about 575,000 square meters, the core facilities include three intelligent production centers, seven auxiliary workshops and eight final assembly stations, with a designed annual production capacity of 84,000 structural tons, and a total length of 1,631 meters, suitable for large offshore engineering ships and floating production, storage and offloading units (FPSO) docking high-quality terminal resources
。 The factory applies more than 400 sets of advanced intelligent production equipment, realizing the intelligence of workshop prefabrication processes from material admission to scribing, grouping, grinding, welding, etc.
, with an automatic cutting rate of 90% of plates and 70% of deck sheets, and the overall production efficiency can be increased by more than
20% compared with the traditional mode.

According to Yu Yi, chairman of CNOOC Engineering, the plant has applied a large number of advanced technologies such as 5G, industrial big data, artificial intelligence, etc.
, and realized the whole process intelligence from project control, workshop construction to plant management by analyzing and summarizing the company's project planning, production organization, workshop execution and other technologies and experience in large-scale engineering structures for many years, which will provide a replicable and generalizable digital intelligent operation and management model for the offshore oil and gas equipment industry, and promote the digital transformation of enterprise operation management
。

The first secondary identification resolution node in the tire industry passed the audit

On August 24, Sailun Group announced that the second-level node of the tire industry built by Sailun (Shenyang) Tire Co.
, Ltd.
officially passed the national top node audit
.
This is the first secondary node of China's tire industry, and also the first international standard object identification system
in China that is completely independent and controllable and has the right to manage global root nodes and allocate code resources.

The secondary node of the identification analysis of the industrial Internet in the tire industry built by Sailun Group adopts the MA identification system, and the identification prefix is "MA.
10000.
1118/", which has been successfully connected to the national top node and entered the operation stage
.

According to Ding Mingyu, deputy general manager of the information center of Sailun Group, the identification analysis system can give machines, equipment, products and even digital objects "ID cards", open up the data chain behind the logo, and then open up the physical world and digital space, realize the data interaction and flow of all factors, the whole industry chain and the whole value chain, so as to promote the digital transformation, intelligent upgrading and high-quality development
of the industry.
The successful access of the secondary node of the tire industry to the national top node can not only provide key resources and basic services for the development of the tire industry, but also an important step
to promote the integration and development of the industry identification resolution system and the industrial Internet platform.

The largest intelligent three-dimensional warehouse in the Asian petrochemical industry is CCCC

On August 28, the Guangdong Petrochemical Polyolefin Packaging Plant and Warehouse, which was contracted by China Huanqiu Engineering Co.
, Ltd
.
, took 585 days to build smoothly.
This is the largest intelligent three-dimensional packaging warehouse in the petroleum and petrochemical industry in Asia, and it is also the first three-dimensional warehouse
for polyolefin products of PetroChina.

According to reports, the polyolefin packaging plant and warehouse project includes 2 packaging plants and 3 35.
6-meter-high automated three-dimensional warehouses, with a total construction area of 52,010 square meters, a total of 68,860 cargo spaces, which can store about 100,000 tons of polyolefin products
.

The person in charge of the intelligent three-dimensional warehouse project said that under the control of the intelligent management system (WMS), the polyolefin packaging plant and warehouse can realize intelligent packaging, automatic transportation, intelligent storage management and automatic delivery, as well as the comprehensive intelligence, digitalization and visualization of packaging, warehousing and logistics, ensuring the traceability
of each bag of polypropylene and polyethylene products.
During the construction of the project, a total of 54,223 cubic meters of concrete was poured, 12,774 tons of steel structure was installed, 172 kilometers of fire pipelines were installed, and 53 kilometers of cables were laid, achieving 1.
41 million hours of safe labor hours
.

The first simulation system for high-sulfur natural gas purification plant was completed

On August 29, Puguang Gas Field officially launched the first process simulation system
of high-sulfur natural gas purification device in China.

The plant process simulation system is a two-dimensional simulation system, mainly including purification device, sulfur tail gas section, desulfurization and dehydration section and other simulation modules, suitable for employees familiar with the process flow, start and stop plan mastery, typical equipment unit operation and abnormal condition handling and other skills training, can train operators to use all the operating functions of DCS operation station, is an important measure
to build a modern training base in Puguang Gas Field.

The simulation system and the actual operating system have a simulation degree of 100%, which can carry out "whole process + single section" process simulation, mainframe pump simulation, realistic simulation of the field operation column in the furnace program, etc.
, with more than 150 built-in simulation device DCS screens, field screens, SIS screens, mainframe pump screens, etc.
; The scoring system sets up more than 1,000 scoring steps for start, stoppage, normal operation and accident scoring, which can meet the training needs of five levels of assessment and newly assigned college students, including senior technicians, technicians, senior workers, intermediate workers and junior workers.
Employees can easily study online in their spare time, which largely solves the problem
of contradiction between engineering and learning.
In addition, the simulation system also creates a "simulation workshop or simulation to the front line" module, training management department can directly issue training tasks and plans through the network, real-time monitoring of training implementation, real-time statistics and query training data, to achieve simulation training information management, and further improve the management efficiency and effect
of simulation training.

The first national standard for digital transformation was released

On October 31, the State Administration for Market Regulation (Standardization Administration of the People's Republic of China) approved the national standard GB/T 23011-2022 "Reference Model for the Value and Benefits of Digital Transformation of Informatization and Industrialization Integration" and officially released
.
This standard is the first national standard for digital transformation issued by China, which is an important milestone for standardization in the field of digital transformation
.

The standard clarifies the fundamental tasks of digital transformation, that is, value system optimization, innovation and reconstruction, and focuses on the issues of "what are the value benefits", "how to create and transmit" and "how to obtain" of digital transformation, gives a reference model for the value benefits of digital transformation, and systematically explains the methods and mechanisms that are value-benefit oriented and run value benefits through the whole process of digital transformation, so as to help organizations effectively obtain digital transformation results and achieve sustainable development
.

This standard applies to enterprises that create, deliver and capture the value benefits of digital transformation, enterprises that develop and provide systematic solutions around the value benefits of digital transformation, and enterprises
that provide services for the digital transformation of organizations.
Industry insiders said that this standard is an important national standard developed and released based on the key need to measure the benefits of digital transformation in the process of integration of industrialization and industrialization, and is of great significance
to lead the deep integration of informatization and industrialization with standards and accelerate the development of new industrialization.

A number of chemical enterprises have been selected as pilot projects for the integration of information technology and manufacturing

On October 31, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced the pilot demonstration list
of the integration development of a new generation of information technology and manufacturing in 2022.
Focusing on the three directions of "digital pilot" enterprises, the implementation of the integrated management system of industrialization and industrialization, and the characteristic professional industrial Internet platform, a total of 215 pilot demonstration projects were selected, and a number of chemical-related projects were shortlisted
.

The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said that the direction of "digital pilot" enterprises was proposed for the first time this year, aiming to establish a number of banners for digital development, promote the lighthouse leading industrial transformation, and drive the overall improvement
of the digital, networked and intelligent level of the manufacturing industry.
It is understood that the chemical projects involved in this direction include the pilot demonstration of intelligent manufacturing in the refining and chemical industry of Zhenhai Refining, the leading enterprise of digital transformation of the rubber tire industry of Sailun Group, and the Shaanxi Drum Green Intelligent Manufacturing Industrial Internet Platform
of Xi'an Shaanxi Drum Power Co.
, Ltd.

The projects involved in the implementation of the integration of informatization and industrialization management system are the digitalization-based supply chain collaboration and control capacity building of Zhuzhou Times New Materials, the closed-loop capacity building of visualization and transparent order delivery of Sankeshu Coating, the remote operation and maintenance service capacity of power equipment products of PetroChina Jichai Power Co.
, Ltd.
, and the data integration intelligent control and production capacity building
of Wuhai Zhonglian Chemical.

The featured professional industrial Internet platform projects are Qinghai Green Energy Data Co.
, Ltd.
's key technologies and applications of the energy Internet ecosystem based on the smart energy center, Kunlun Digital Intelligence's Dream Cloud to help the digital transformation and intelligent development of oil and gas enterprises, and Sinochem Information Technology Co.
, Ltd
.
's "smart factory + smart HSE" industrial Internet platform.

Guidelines for the construction of intelligent manufacturing standard system for the petrochemical industry were released

On November 21, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the "Guidelines for the Construction of Intelligent Manufacturing Standard System in the Petrochemical Industry (2022 Edition)", aiming to establish a relatively complete intelligent manufacturing standard system in the petrochemical industry by 2025, and formulate and revise more than 30 key standards in the petrochemical industry, basically covering basic commonality, petrochemical key data and model technology, petrochemical key application technology, etc.
; For subdivided industries such as crude oil processing, priority is given to formulating standards for the application of a new generation of information technology in production, management, service and other unique scenarios, and promoting the wide application of
intelligent manufacturing standards in the petrochemical industry.

According to the Guide, the standard architecture of intelligent manufacturing in the petrochemical industry is divided into four parts: basic common standards, petrochemical key data and model technical standards, petrochemical key application technical standards and subdivided industry application standards, which form support
in turn.

The Guide proposes to fully mobilize the strength of all parties in production, education and research to build a number of national, industry and group standards
with good practicality and strong operability.
Zhu Ling, business director of petrochemical industry of Zhejiang Supcon Technology Co.
, Ltd.
, suggested that the comprehensive integration of automation technology (AT), information technology (IT), process technology (PT), operation technology (OT) and equipment technology (ET) should be realized in the construction of the standard system, break the gap between individual technologies in the whole life cycle of engineering design, engineering construction, operation management, and operation and maintenance services, and build a diversified technology integration base
.

(Note: Top 10 news in chronological order; Unless otherwise specified, the dates in this article are 2022
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