India's first remote monitoring system for Oil Refineries.
                     India's first remote monitoring 
system for Oil Refineries
INTRODUCTION
• Indian Oil Corporation happens to be the country's 
largest fuel retailer. 
• It recently launched India's first remote monitoring 
system for oil refineries' turbines.
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ABOUT THE MONITORING CENTRE 
• The Indian Oil Remote Monitoring and Operation 
Centre has been set up by BHEL- GE Gas Turbine 
Services which happens to be a joint venture of BHEL 
and Electric. 
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FEATURES
• It would be managing and analysing the operational 
data from 27 gas turbines at 8 Indian Oil Corporation 
refineries in India. 
• The turbines are responsible for the power required in 
the oil refineries
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Predictive Analytics
• This technology generally referred to as Proactive 
Predictive Analytics-based Automated Anomaly 
Detection would only allow monitoring of the Gas 
Turbine Operational Data that flew in digitally from 27 
turbines of the eight Indian Oil refineries round-the-
clock in Hyderabad.
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Significance 
• The project works on the vision of Atma Nirbhar 
Bharat and Digital India
• It would also be helpful in proactive and preventive 
maintenance of gas turbines in Hyderabad.
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Detection and diagnosis of emerging issues relating 
to gas turbines
• This analysis would be helpful in the detection and 
diagnosis of emerging issues relating to gas turbines 
before they become critical and triggers corrective 
actions. This will help avoid refinery process unit 
shutdowns.
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System Requirements
• These systems are required to large and complex 
units like factories, power plants, airports etc. which 
are automated at some level. 
• The systems receive data from sensors, telemetry, 
programmed processes etc.
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Facts about Indian refineries
• The refining capacity of India is 249.366 Metric tonne 
per annum and Indian oil is responsible for meeting 
32% of India's demand
• Indian Oil Corporation happens to be the country's 
largest fuel retailer.
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Facts about Indian refineries cont.
• In all, there are 23 refineries in India out of which 9 
are managed by Indian Oil Corporation. There are 
only 3 private sector refineries belonging to Reliance 
and Essar. 
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About Remote Monitoring System
• The remote monitoring system was first operated in 
GEs Atlanta Analytical Centre in the USA. 
• The facility at Hyderabad is India's first remote 
sensing monitoring system. 
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