Intertec to install field shelters to Middle Eastern refinery
SARNIA, CANADA -- Outdoor shelters with a combination of Intertec's passive and active cooling technologies have been chosen to protect control systems at a Middle Eastern refinery. The environmental protection solution is being provided as part of an upgrade to the burner management systems at the core of the plant's refining processes.
High-reliability PLC-based systems will provide the control and safety functions needed for management of eight separate burners. However, the physical location of the systems -- deep inside the process -- and the harsh coastal desert location of the refinery, pose additional challenges for this engineering upgrade.
The project partners selected the field instrumentation protection specialist Intertec to provide the enclosure solution because of its experience of harsh environments, and for its novel protection ideas that will enhance the overall functional reliability of the control systems.
Intertec's design response to the engineering problem incorporates two major features. The first is custom-designed remote instrument enclosures (RIEs) based on composite GRP materials. The second key part of the protection solution is a regulated internal environment that provides the essential cooling required for the reliable operation of the electronics in the harsh Middle Eastern climate.
"Intertec's novel approach to this field protection problem meets a growing need in today's process world," says Keith Wood, Intertec's project manager. "Control and instrumentation systems are being sited much closer to the process, deep inside corrosive and hazardous areas -- and this in turn is demanding higher levels of reliability. GRP enclosure construction materials, combined with innovation in the associated protection systems such as cooling, are helping engineering consultancies to create advanced new plant solutions."
The shelters will be assembled and factory tested at Intertec's European manufacturing center in southern Germany. Intertec will install the PLC and safety control system modules inside the shelter, to the design layout provided by the project engineers. Delivery of the eight RIEs will start in the second quarter of 2017.
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