Methods and systems for process adaptation in an internet of things downstream oil and gas environment

• US 10,732,621 B2
• Filed: 05/07/2018
• Issued: 08/04/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 05/09/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Strong Force IoT Portfolio 2016, LLC (Strong Force Intellectual Capital, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Strong Force IoT Portfolio 2016, LLC (Strong Force Intellectual Capital, LLC)
• Inventors: Cella, Charles Howard, Duffy, Jr., Gerald William, McGuckin, Jeffrey P., Desai, Mehul
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Vincent H
• Application Number:
  US15/973,229
• Publication Number:
  US 20180299878A1
• Time in Patent Office: 820 Days
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Abstract

Monitoring a processing asset for one of an oil processing facility and a gas processing facility includes a data acquisition circuit structured to interpret a plurality of detection values corresponding to input received from a detection package, the detection package comprising at least one of a plurality of input sensors, each of the plurality of input sensors operatively coupled to at least one of a plurality of process components; a data analysis circuit structured to analyze a subset of the plurality of detection values to determine a status parameter; and an analysis response circuit structured to adjust a process utilizing the processing asset in response to the status parameter comprising altering at least one process parameter selected from the process parameters consisting of: a temperature, an operating speed, a utilization value of one of the plurality of process components, and a process flow.

Claims

1. A system for monitoring a processing asset for one of an oil processing facility and a gas processing facility, the system comprising:

a data acquisition circuit structured to interpret a plurality of detection values, each of the plurality of detection values corresponding to input received from a detection package, the detection package comprising at least one of a plurality of input sensors, each of the plurality of input sensors operatively coupled to at least one of a plurality of process components;

a data analysis circuit structured to analyze a subset of the plurality of detection values to determine a status value corresponding to an oil and gas process;

an analysis response circuit structured to adjust a process parameter in response to the status value; and

a pattern recognition circuit structured to;

analyze the subset of the plurality of detection values with at least one of a neural net or an expert system;

determine a recognized pattern value; and

determine a sensor effectiveness value, the sensor effectiveness value comprising a capability of the subset of the plurality of detection values to determine the recognized pattern value.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the status value corresponding to the oil and gas process comprises at least one status value selected from the status values consisting of:

a process stage, a process rate, a process order, an anticipated life of the processing asset, an anticipated life of one of the plurality of process components, a process event, a confidence level regarding a process quality, a detection capability, a transmission capability, achievement of a process goal, an output production rate, an operational efficiency, an operational failure rate, a power efficiency, a power resource status, an identified risk, a temperature at a time and location in a process, a failure prediction, an identified safety issue, an off-nominal process, and an identified maintenance requirement.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the process parameter comprises at least one of:

a temperature, an operating speed, a utilization value of one of the plurality of process components, and a process flow value.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the analysis response circuit is further structured to adjust the detection package in response to at least one of the status value and the sensor effectiveness value.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the analysis response circuit is further structured to adjust an equipment package in response to the status value.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the data analysis circuit is further configured to determine an alarm value in response to at least one of the subset of detection values, and wherein the analysis response circuit is further configured to continuously monitor the alarm value.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the analysis response circuit is further structured to rebalance loads between process components in response to the status value.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the data analysis circuit is further structured to remove known noise from at least one of the subset of the plurality of detection values to facilitate analysis of the at least one of the subset of the plurality of detection values.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the data analysis circuit further comprises a classification circuit structured to classify at least one of:

an equipment type or identity of one of the plurality of process components;

one of the plurality of input sensors; and

a type or identity of a distant device, the distant device comprising a device that is one of operationally or environmentally coupled to the process utilizing the processing asset but is not one of the plurality of process components; and

wherein the classification circuit comprises at least one of a neural net or an expert system.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the data analysis circuit further comprises an optimization circuit structured to provide recommendations regarding at least one of:

a detection package, an equipment package, and a set of process parameters; and

wherein the optimization circuit comprises at least one of a neural net or an expert system.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the processing asset comprises one of a refinery and a pipeline, and wherein the plurality of process components comprise at least one component selected from the components consisting of:

a compressor, a turbine, a blower, a fluid conveyance pipe or tube, a reaction vessel, and a distillation column.

12. A method of monitoring a processing asset for one of an oil processing facility and a gas processing facility, the method comprising:

interpreting a plurality of detection values, each of the plurality of detection values corresponding to input received from a detection package, the detection package comprising at least one of a plurality of input sensors, each of the plurality of input sensors operatively coupled to at least one of a plurality of process components;

analyzing a subset of the plurality of detection values to determine a status value corresponding to an oil and gas process;

adjusting a process parameter in response to the status value;

performing a pattern recognition operation to analyze the subset of the plurality of detection values with at least one of a neural net or an expert system to determine a recognized pattern value; and

determining a sensor effectiveness value, the sensor effectiveness value comprising a capability of the subset of the plurality of detection values to determine the recognized pattern value.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising adjusting the detection package in response to at least one of:

the status value, the recognized pattern value, and the sensor effectiveness value.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein adjusting the detection package comprises adjusting at least one sensor parameter selected from the sensor parameters consisting of:

a sensor range;

a sensor scaling value;

a sensor sampling frequency; and

a utilized sensor value, the utilized sensor value indicating which sensor from a plurality of available sensors is utilized in the detection package, and wherein the plurality of available sensors have at least one distinct sensing parameter selected from the sensing parameters consisting of;

input ranges, sensitivity values, locations, reliability values, duty cycle values, sensor types, and maintenance requirements.

15. An apparatus for monitoring a processing asset for one of an oil processing facility and a gas processing facility, the apparatus comprising:

a data acquisition component configured to interpret a plurality of detection values, each of the plurality of detection values corresponding to input received from a detection package, the detection package comprising at least one of a plurality of input sensors, each of the plurality of input sensors operatively coupled to at least one of a plurality of process components;

a data analysis component configured to analyze a subset of the plurality of detection values to determine a status value corresponding to an oil and gas process;

an analysis response component configured to adjust a process parameter in response to the status value; and

a pattern recognition component configured to;

analyze the subset of the plurality of detection values with at least one of a neural net or an expert system;

determine a recognized pattern value; and

determine a sensor effectiveness value, the sensor effectiveness value comprising a capability of the subset of the plurality of detection values to determine the recognized pattern value.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the analysis response component is further configured to adjust one of the detection package, an equipment package, and a process load.

17. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the data analysis component further comprises an expert system component configured to classify at least one of:

equipment, sensors, processes, oil and gas process components, and distant devices; and

to provide recommendations regarding at least one of the detection package, the equipment package, and a set of process parameters, wherein the expert system component comprises a neural net or an expert system.

18. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the analysis response component is further configured to adjust the detection package in response to at least one of the status value and the sensor effectiveness value.

19. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the status value corresponding to the oil and gas process comprises at least one status value selected from the status values consisting of:

a process stage, a process rate, a process order, an anticipated life of the processing asset, an anticipated life of one of the plurality of process components, a process event, a confidence level regarding a process quality, a detection capability, a transmission capability, achievement of a process goal, an output production rate, an operational efficiency, an operational failure rate, a power efficiency, a power resource status, an identified risk, a temperature at a time and location in a process, a failure prediction, an identified safety issue, an off-nominal process, and an identified maintenance requirement.

20. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the process parameter comprises at least one of:

a temperature, an operating speed, a utilization value of one of the plurality of process components, and a process flow value.

21. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the analysis response component is further configured to rebalance loads between process components in response to the status value.