Patent ID: 9709995
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: E21B,G05B,G05D

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: monitoring a hydrocarbon stream in a hydrocarbon pipeline with a monitoring module in fluid communication with the hydrocarbon pipeline, the monitoring module comprising one or more sensor devices operable to detect one or more operational parameters of the hydrocarbon stream; and injecting an amount of one or more chemical fluids adapted to treat the hydrocarbon stream via a pair of chemical injection systems remote and spaced apart from the monitoring module and in fluid communication with the hydrocarbon pipeline; wherein the amount of the one or more chemical fluids accounts for a relative distance as measured between the monitoring module and each of the pair of chemical injection systems by data transmission between the pair of chemical injection systems and a control station that is remote from the pair of chemical injection systems, the data defining the one or more operational parameters from the monitoring module and commands to operate a pump motor at each one of the pair of chemical injection systems, wherein data transmission from the monitoring module to the control station occurs as follows, wherein the computer, processes the data in the first communication protocol to generate data defining the commands in a second communication protocol that causes the pump motor to provide a uniformly consistent quantity of the one or more chemical fluids in the hydrocarbon pipeline, wherein the first communication protocol is distinct from the second communication protocol.