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Automation and Real-Time Management System Emerson Process Management
offers a pre-engineered fully integrated pipeline automation and real-time management
solution that can be tailored for gas transmission systems, crude oil pipelines,
refined product pipelines, and water pipelines. Our robust and flexible solution
is based on industry-standard SCADA and PLC controls, field instrumentation, measurement,
information technology, pipeline modeling, and telecommunications components,
coupled with Emerson Process Management's proven implementation designs, control
strategies, and software applications developed specifically for the pipeline
industry.
At the pump or compressor station, our pipeline automation
solution consists of an industry-standard PLC platform complemented by Emerson
Process Management's proven suite of unit and station control strategies; and
an industry-standard information platform complemented by Emerson Process Management's
suite of applications for local device integration, operator interface, and wide-area
network communications.
At the meter station, Emerson Process Management
provides the best metering strategy for the specific pipeline, whether it be orifice,
turbine, or ultrasonic for gas, or positive displacement, mass flow, or turbine
for liquids. We interface the meter with our proven flow calculation algorithms
running in an industry-standard flow computer or approved device. And then we
integrate the meter station with our data validation and accounting interface
applications, providing a total measurement solution that ensures fiscal accuracy.
At the control center, our solution consists of an industry-standard SCADA
platform and set of pipeline modeling applications complemented by Emerson Process
Management's suite of pipeline energy management, contract management, measurement
integration, optimization, and decision support applications.
And finally,
we can link these geographically distributed components together using the customer's
existing telecommunications system, or provide a new system based on the most
appropriate medium, such as satellite, fiber, radio, microwave, or common carrier.
In summary, Emerson Process Management provides a cost-effective, totally
integrated pipeline automation and management solution that has open architecture,
is flexible, easily supported, and is fit for purpose.
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