The digital refinery winks at the environment 0 The digital refinery winks at the environment 0 0 0 The tools and production systems are state-of-the-art, the products obtained are considered more "traditional". The refinery becomes digital and the entire innovative system grows and develops around one goal: to produce fuels following a philosophy that seeks to achieve "the lowest environmental impact and an ever-higher standard of safety and health protection". Digital innovation has already crossed the gates of the Saras refinery (1,400 employees in Sardinia) and the industrial site of the subsidiary Sarlux, and ranges from research to training of workers, from controlling the production process to preventing accidents or plant breakdowns. These are some of the cornerstones of the #digitalsaras program, sewn around the refinery which, about thirty kilometers from Cagliari, processes an average of 300,000 barrels per day, a total of 15 million tons per year and a processing capacity of 40 different crudes. . Gasoline (and other fuels destined for a small part to the local market and the rest to the international one) and technology with a particular attention to big data, and to that industrial evolution that unites oil production with the digital universe. "The ability to analyze and exploit these data - explains Giuseppe Citterio, planning and development director, who heads the Digital project - represents the new wealth of our time". A productive world that yesterday the managers and technicians of the refinery, built in the 60s, they illustrated to 50 students of the University of Cagliari the Faculty of Chemical, Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, and of the Technical Institute-Lyceum of Applied Sciences Giua, as part of the open day. "The management of big data and the application of other Industry 4.0 technologies - are the words of Dario Scaffardi, executive vice president and general manager of Saras - will allow us to improve our processes at sustainable costs, to remain one of the leading operators refining ". Then the digital approach (around 10 million euros are invested each year in innovation and research) for the optimization of maintenance and production, continuing with safety. The starting point was the search for suitable applications for the refinery: "Of 80 possible uses, 24 were chosen, based on rationales such as the ability to improve the work of people, costs and feasibility, then 10 pilot projects were launched". Now we move on to the industrialization phase: the use of the tablet for electricians (drawer operators) and for operators, the protection devices connected to the control room, the communication platform that allows you to structure and archive the information that, shift by shift , are collected by processists and panel builders. Work in progress for the refinery of the future. admin Related posts November 2, 2017 Iraqi authorities working to reopen Kirkuk oil fields Read more Leave a comment Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked * Comment Name * Email * Website I give my consent for a cookie to save my data (name, email, website) for the next comment. Contacts Petrone Petroli Offices and Warehouse: Via Cimitero, loc. San Giovanni dei Cavoli 80049 Scisciano (Na) 081 8441580 ppetroli@petronepetroli.it Links Agency Products and Services Distributors Card News Gallery Contacts © 2017 Petrone Petroli srl | ppetroli@petronepetroli.it