ABB White paper - Adding the X-F.A.C.T.O.R to oil gas flow computing, automation and control 白皮书(英语)说明书用户手册.pdf

Image — Adding the X-F.A.C.T.O.R to oil gas flow computing, automation and control Flexible, Accurate, Cybersecure, Trusted, Optimal, and Reliable — ABB is making a world of difference by enabling safe, smart and sustainable operations with integrated solutions that digitalize, automate electrify the oil and gas industry. We are focused on helping energy companies operate more efficiently to reduce their environmental impact, while enabling new, clean energy value chains to fuel our future. — Table of contents 2 Introduction 3 Oil Gas Industry Operations Applications - Segments of the Industry 3 Upstream and Midstream Oil Gas Operations and Applications 4 Purpose of Flow Measurement 4 Flow Measurement Requirements 5 Automation Control 6 Field Device and System Integration 7 ABB Totalflow Portfolio Solution 8 XFC 6200EX/6210EX and µFloG5 9 XFCG5 and XRCG5 10 RMC-100, RMC-100 Lite, and Smart Remote XIO 11 The X-F.A.C.T.O.R. in Oil Gas Flow Computing, Automation and Control 2 A D D I N G TH E X- F. A .C .T.O. R TO O I L G A S F LOW CO M PUTI N G , AUTO M ATI O N A N D CO NTRO L — Introduction The importance of flow measurement in the oil and gas industry Flow measurement is a topic that is fundamentally and complex field that presents many formidable well understood and incorporated in processes challenges and complications. Achieving accurate, around the world today. However, this has not precise, and repeatable flow measurements of always been the case. It was not until the advent of hydrocarbon gases and