Sensor Solutions for the Crude Oil Transportation Industry

Oil is inextricably linked to our lives. After the extraction of oil, the international commonly used pipeline, railroad, road, sea and other ways of transportation. Crude oil or refined petroleum and related products, most of which are flammable and explosive, and have a certain degree of volatility, and the risk factor will increase in limited enclosed space.

Point 1: Transportation by pipeline

Save investment, safe and airtight, but there is risk of leakage. soil erosion, geological disasters, landslides, floods and other disasters can cause pipeline leakage and complete pipeline breakage, resulting in larger crude oil leakage incidents.

Point 2: Transportation by railway

It has strong conveying capacity, low transportation cost, less affected by weather and other natural conditions, and less transportation area limitation, but also many dangers. Crude oil, associated gas, formation water, injected water nature and flow state will produce corrosion on the tank car, resulting in crude oil leakage. In the process of transportation, the crude oil loaded on the railroad tank car if there is an accident, will pose a great threat to the railroad along the region. Due to the high mobility of railroad tank cars, the accident location is uncertain, which also causes great difficulties to the emergency rescue of the accident.

Point 3: Transportation by road

Due to diffrent transport distance, flow dispersion, through the town or the desert Gobi and other production operation characteristics. In addition to the inherent low flash point, easy to evaporate, easy to expand when heated, easy to combust and explode and other fire hazards of crude oil, there will be crude oil vapors from the oil tanker car into the oil (or translucent) the mouth of the volatilization of the situation, such as ventilation around the difficult to diffuse timely in the process of loading crude oil operations. Even in normal operation, if the connection seals fail, oil and gas leakage occurs, it also will be very dangerous.

Point 4: Transportation by sea

Large quantities and long distance, there is a risk of leakage. There are always dangerous flammable gases especially in the tanker cabins, decks, which will directly affect the safe operation of the tanker and jeopardize the lives of people on the tanker.

No matter crude oil is transported by which way, oil and gas leakage needs to be solved. Industrial combustible Gas Sensors provide real-time, rapid and sensitive detection of oil and gas leaks. Normally, with combustible Gas Sensors to monitor and alarm the concentration of combustible gases or oxygen volatilized into the air can greatly prevent the occurrence of potential accidents.