Processes determine a series of steps to achieve a goal, but how each of these steps is carried out determines the success of the results. This is why the control of mechanisms in industrial processes provides the focus for the continuous improvement of industries and allows to establish common objectives among its different productive parts.
The instrumentation and control mechanisms in industrial processes allow us to measure, adjust, control or record variables in order to optimize a process to be as effective and accurate as possible. This type of control in industrial processes is as important as it is necessary, since it is the only way in which we can achieve the objectives in a predefined and strategic way, allowing us to achieve the most optimal results, establish procedures that guarantee success, and implement best practices throughout the sector.
Data collection is, without a doubt, the most important piece for the evaluation and adjustment of decisions and operational objectives. Data allows us to guarantee the repeatability of measures and results to obtain optimal coordination and to evaluate performance metrics.
When we talk about instrumentation in steam generation and injection operations, the monitoring and control mechanisms include a set of equipment, devices and tools that allow us to execute with the highest possible accuracy and precision the measurement, conversion, transmission, recording and evaluation of the different process variables.
In recent years, important technological innovations have enabled the improvement of various aspects of instrumentation and automation in the oil and gas sector. Specifically, in the monitoring and control of steam generation and injection operations, these innovations have allowed us, among other things:
- optimize and facilitate the management of the steam generation and injection process
- improve steam quality and optimize resources
- reduce environmental impact
- ensure the physical integrity of the equipment and the personnel who operate it
- automate the control of all system variables and parameters
The steam generation and injection systems are integrated by several subsystems. All these systems are integrated and interact through a control structure. The Steam Generation and Injection Systems have associated instrumentation that is responsible for monitoring and controlling the basic parameters of each subsystem. The control structure allows us to have a greater precision and to elaborate production schemes and to create opportunities of production increase. In addition, these mechanisms allow us to obtain data that give us great advantages for the process of generation and injection of steam, such as allowing us to understand the sensitivities of the system’s behavior and rates of steam injection, verify the efficiency of the systems and the behavior of different parameters, and obtain statistics on consumption of water, fuel, chemicals and other inputs.
In conclusion, the control mechanisms in the processes allow us to guarantee success. They not only help us to optimize processes, but also facilitate operations, improve the quality of results, ensure the integrity of equipment and personnel, reduce environmental impact, and automate the control of variables in systems. The continuous improvement of steam generation and injection systems ultimately depends on our ability to optimize control mechanisms, determining more precisely the optimal parameters for better results.
Owner of several companies in the energy and mining sector, and inventor of the design and engineering of the Super Matroid Heater and Ultra Filtration Systems for the oil and gas industries.
