SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING, MONITORING, AND OPERATING REMOTE OIL AND GAS FIELD EQUIPMENT OVER A DATA NETWORK WITH APPLICATIONS TO RAW NATURAL GAS PROCESSING AND FLARE GAS CAPTURE
First Claim
1. A system for remotely monitoring and controlling a chemical process, the system comprising:
- a plurality of remote field equipment for performing the chemical process that are adapted to be responsive to electromagnetic signals resulting in control of a plurality of process parameters;
a server comprising a hardware processor and a non-transitory digital storage medium storing executable program code;
a communications-link between said server and said piece of remote field equipment; and
a plurality of program code embodied on said non-transitory digital storage medium, said plurality of program code which when executed causes said hardware processor to execute a process performing the steps of;
establishing an equipment-server connection between said piece of remote field equipment and said server;
establishing a client-server connection between a user device and said server;
providing an interface to allow a user to display the plurality of process parameters on said user device;
receiving a set of chemical process input parameters corresponding to parameters of an input chemical stream;
receiving a set of desired chemical process output parameters corresponding to desired parameters of an output chemical stream;
controlling a set of chemical process control parameters to achieve the desired chemical process output parameters given the chemical process input parameters and the desired chemical process output parameters, wherein a plurality of computationally determined ideal operating points is utilized to produce products which meet client specifications from an inlet feedstock of varying conditions; and
providing a human-machine interface (HMI) adapted to allow supervisory intervention and specification of operating points to allow an operator to manually control the set of chemical process control parameters.
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Abstract
An intelligent controls system for remotely monitoring and controlling a chemical process is disclosed. The system comprises a piece of remote field equipment for performing the chemical process, a user device, a server, and program codes to perform the steps of establishing an equipment-server and a client-server connection, receiving a set of chemical process input parameters and a set of desired chemical process output parameters, controlling a set of chemical process control parameters to achieve the desired chemical process output parameters, and providing an interface to allow an operator to manually control and/or manually override the set of chemical process control parameters. The controls system allows any piece of remote field equipment for performing complex chemical processing to be monitored, controlled, and operated remotely. A large array of distributed field equipment situated around the world can all be controlled primarily through a single interface provided in a central control center.
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20 Claims
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1. A system for remotely monitoring and controlling a chemical process, the system comprising:
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a plurality of remote field equipment for performing the chemical process that are adapted to be responsive to electromagnetic signals resulting in control of a plurality of process parameters; a server comprising a hardware processor and a non-transitory digital storage medium storing executable program code; a communications-link between said server and said piece of remote field equipment; and a plurality of program code embodied on said non-transitory digital storage medium, said plurality of program code which when executed causes said hardware processor to execute a process performing the steps of; establishing an equipment-server connection between said piece of remote field equipment and said server; establishing a client-server connection between a user device and said server; providing an interface to allow a user to display the plurality of process parameters on said user device; receiving a set of chemical process input parameters corresponding to parameters of an input chemical stream; receiving a set of desired chemical process output parameters corresponding to desired parameters of an output chemical stream; controlling a set of chemical process control parameters to achieve the desired chemical process output parameters given the chemical process input parameters and the desired chemical process output parameters, wherein a plurality of computationally determined ideal operating points is utilized to produce products which meet client specifications from an inlet feedstock of varying conditions; and providing a human-machine interface (HMI) adapted to allow supervisory intervention and specification of operating points to allow an operator to manually control the set of chemical process control parameters. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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