Delek Refining to use Honeywell's services

CPS is part of Honeywell’s Connected Plant initiative, which leverages IIoT technologies and Honeywell UOP’s services and domain expertise to improve a broad range of industrial operations from supply chain efficiency to asset optimisation. Delek will use a CPS solution called process reliability advisor (PRA) to continuously analyse its process unit performance and detect anomalies, enabling refinery operators to quickly resolve problems and keep the unit operating at peak performance. CPS solutions use Honeywell UOP process and fault models, fed by current plant data, to provide key performance information and process recommendations.

“The PRA 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,” said Zak Alzein, Vice President for Honeywell UOP’s CPS business. “This will allow Delek to avoid downtime and improve its operations.”

By giving refineries, petrochemical and gas processing plants greater visibility into their operations, PRA can identify and resolve problems that reduce plant efficiency and productivity. The service finds problems that often avoid detection and hamper production, leading to unplanned shutdowns for maintenance and repair that can cost plant operators millions of dollars per year in lost productivity.

“This offering can save a refinery millions of dollars a year, helping to improve its profitability,” Alzein said. “By bringing literally decades of experience to a refinery, PRA can close the growing knowledge gap that is forming as these facilities become more complex and skilled personnel enter retirement.”

Honeywell UOP’s CPS business also offers process optimisation advisor (POA), which continuously monitors streaming plant data and applies Honeywell UOP process models and economic optimisation, big data analytics, and machine learning to drive a plant’s full potential.

Delek Refining, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Delek US Holdings, operates a 75 000 bpd refinery in Tyler, Texas, that primarily processes locally sourced light, sweet crude oils into a full range of refined products, including gasoline, diesel, jet fuels, liquefied petroleum gas and natural gas liquids. More than 93% of the Tyler refinery's production slate has been comprised of light, high value products such as gasoline and distillate fuels.

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