Upgrading process gas chromatographs at the BP kinneil terminal, Grangemouth, Scotland

Abstract

This paper describes the phased upgrade of 24 Multi-Stream, Multi-Component, on-line gas chromatographs at the receiving terminal for the Forties Pipeline System in Grangemouth, Scotland. The paper covers the overall project aims of densification, enhanced redundancy and additional process knowledge. Re-deployment of the communication system to the new dataNET (Ethernet architecture) type architecture will also be described.