2024年5月17日发(作者：电脑突然黑屏)

5G+

Smart Manufacturing

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Safe, Green, and Smart Sinopec

Guangzhou Empowered by 5G

The success of the 5G + smart petrochemical project has empowered 15 application scenarios in six major business fields, reducing

accident rate by 20% and harmful gas emissions by 30%, and creating an annual economic benefit of RMB 30 million. Based on the 5G cloud

network, Sinopec Guangzhou has transformed into a safe, green, and smart enterprise, and strives to become a paradigm in terms of both "clean

energy" and "transformation", taking the lead in driving the growth of the petrochemical industry.

Huang Haibin

Head of the Information Centre at Sinopec Guangzhou Petrochemical Company

Partners

Case Overview

The petrochemical industry plays a significant role in the national

economy and people's livelihood. China's GDP in 2020 stood at

RMB 101 trillion, and the petrochemical industry contributed RMB 11

trillion of revenue, accounting for 10.89% of the national GDP. Sinopec

Guangzhou Petrochemical Company (hereinafter referred to as

Sinopec Guangzhou), is one of the largest modern petrochemical

enterprises in South China and the only super-large refinery facility

of Sinopec in the Pearl River Delta region, boasting an A-level

informatisation level and a crude oil processing capacity of more than

10 million tons.

Sinopec Guangzhou is recogised by Sinopec Group as a key pilot

enterprise for the "world-class green and low-carbon urban refinery

demonstration enterprise construction". In line with the "safe, green,

and smart" development of the petrochemical industry, Sinopec

Guangzhou established partnerships with China Telecom, Petro-

Cyberworks Information Technology Co., Ltd., Huawei Technologies

Co., Ltd., Guangdong Communications and Networks Institute, and

Guangdong Telecom Planning and Design Institute to undertake

the special project of the Department of Science and Technology of

Guangdong Province and the key research and development tasks of

Sinopec Group in September 2020. Relying on the overall architecture

of data + platform + applications, Sinopec Guangzhou was able to

upload various on-site terminal data to the local data centre in a real-

time and secure manner via the 5G private network. Leveraging the

intelligent cloud platform's key capabilities in edge-cloud coordination,

big data operation, AI applications and business platforms, the

company has achieved safe, green, and intelligent applications in 15

major scenarios of six major business fields.

Intelligent supervision of on-site operation safety

Emergency command

Hazardous chemical control

Comprehensive management of factory premises

Smart firefighting

Safety

business

Equipment

business

Intelligent diagnosis of pump cluster

Intelligent blind plates

Energy management system

Smart water meter

Energy

business

Environmental

protection

business

VOC source tracing with big data

5G-based drone-aided pipeline inspection

Real-time monitoring of production abnormality

Regular online inspection of facilities

5G-based audio and video intelligent inspection

Production

business

5G cloud network

empowers 15 application

scenarios in six business

fields to create safe,

green, and smart Sinopec

Guangzhou

Supply

business

Intelligent warehousing AGVs

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Safe, Green, and Smart Sinopec Guangzhou Empowered by 5G

5G in Verticals

in China 2022

Industry Challenges

Large state-owned petrochemical enterprises led by Sinopec in China

are among the first to explore and systematically propose the concept

of smart factories and put them into practice, which has produced an

impressive result. By learning from foreign counterparts' best practices

in information-based development, Sinopec successfully built its own

smart factories, which offered an excellent example for players in the

petrochemical industry. However, China's petrochemical industry still

has a long way to go with regard to the digitalized and intelligent

levels.

Sinopec Guangzhou identified the following issues during its

production. 1. The joint emergency response and command capabilities

were insufficient and integrated communications were not available.

respect to collection and transmission of production and

equipment operation data, some factories had remotely located

control centres from their equipment and used traditional copper wires

or optical fibers for wired transmission, which increased the network

deployment cost. 3. Grid monitoring of VOCs and odors across

the factory premises was in place, but the VOC emissions, fugacity

prediction, and emission traceability were not effectively monitored

and managed. 4. The information-based operation management was

not well executed due to the large workload on the site. 5. The existing

pump equipment status monitoring could not meet the requirement

for equipment health management, and the security and availability

of the wireless data transmission network needed to be improved. 6.

The traditional inspection mode without information-based control

was inefficient. 7. The manual collection, delivery, and sorting of bulky

cargoes resulted in a heavy workload and a low efficiency.

Therefore, Sinopec Guangzhou had an urgent need to improve

automation and intelligent levels in the factory by integrating 5G

+advanced technologies, in an effort to achieve lean production,

collaboration optimisation, safety enhancement, energy conservation

and environmental protection, green and low-carbon development, as

well as cost reduction and efficiency enhancement. The "5G + Smart

Petrochemical" project has injected new impetus into enterprise

management reform, resource optimization, business innovation and

efficiency enhancement, providing strong support for building first-

class enterprises.

Solutions and Benefits

The overall architecture of data + platform + applications enabled the company to upload on-site terminal data to the data centre in a real-time and

secure manner via the 5G (including NB-IoT) private network. Leveraging the intelligent cloud platform's key capabilities in edge-cloud coordination,

big data operation, AI applications, and business platforms, the company was able to achieve dynamic sensing, forecast and pre-warning, informed

decision-making, and targeted execution in six business fields, namely production, equipment, safety, environmental protection, supply chain, and

energy, bringing down the accident rate by 20% and the VOC emissions by 30%, and creating an annual economic benefit of RMB 30 million.

Application

scenarios

Smart production

inspections

Real-time monitoring

of production

abnormality

VOC source tracingHazardous

chemical

control

Emergency

command

Intelligent supervision Intelligent

of on-site operation comprehensive security

safety

Intelligent

blind plates

Intelligent pump

cluster monitoring

Intelligent

warehousing AGVs

Business

platforms

AI-based big

data platforms

ProductionEquipmentSafety

Environment

protection

EnergySupply chain

5G private network

management

Intelligent

cloud

platforms

Big data computingData governanceData services

General-

purpose AI

AI application

models

Knowledge graphs

Edge UPF

+ MEC

Edge access and forwarding capacityEdge cloud resource capacityEdge inference and application

Data

centres

Intelligent

networks

Data cleansing

Data storage

Data backupData disaster tolerance

Data

integration

5G SA networks

Explosion-proof 5G base station

NB-IoT base station

Non-explosion-proof 5G base station

Edge UPF

Central UPF

Intelligent

terminals

Explosion-

proof mobile

terminal

Explosion-

Gas analyser

proof inspection

device

Explosion-

proof audio

recorder

Monitoring

vehicle

Drone

AGV

Explosion-

proof camera

Industrial

gateway

项目整体架构

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5G+

Smart Manufacturing

01 Integrated solution of 5G private network

Wireless network coverage

Four 5G explosion-proof micro stations in explosion-

proof areas and 13 macro stations in non-explosion-

proof areas have been deployed across the factory

which covers an area of 4.45 million square meters,

with 5G signal coverage rate reaching 95.80%. Blind

areas and poor signal coverage areas of 5G networks

in explosion-proof areas will be addressed based on

project requirements.

5G private network solution

The Adjacent and Wide-area dual private network mode has been adopted for the

first time in the petrochemical industry. Currently, the Adjacent mode with UPF

deployed on lower layers is adopted in the production environment to achieve

exclusive sharing of base stations and keep data for exclusive use within the

industry park, thereby ensuring data security. The project adopts a Wide-area 5G

private network that fully reuses the operator's public network as a backup. When

the lowered UPF fails, the data services can be seamlessly switched to the Wide-

area private network to ensure high availability of the 5G network.

02 Intelligent supervision of on-site operations improves safety

The deployment of mobile 5G cameras allows for real-time site monitoring and online AI analysis, which facilitates the transition from in-event

supervision and post-event traceability to pre-event prevention. Online intelligent monitoring is now available for all on-site operations, which

increases the standardized operation rate by 30% and secures an annual economic benefit of RMB 5 million.

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operation

identification

Hot work

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Mask

identification

Cuff roll

identification

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5G in Verticals

in China 2022

03 VOC traceability improves environmental protection

By leveraging 5G and AI technologies, a multi-source integrated 3D monitoring, pre-warning, and traceability system has been established to serve

the full life cycle management of environmental protection, covering pollution prevention, source reduction, process control, and final treatment. This

has led to a higher accuracy, more monitoring items, reduced early warnings, and a wider scope of traceability. Specifically, the accuracy rate has

been increased from 50% to 70%, the number of monitoring items has expanded from 45 to 330, the number of early warnings has dropped by 10%

year-on-year, and the scope of traceability has been extended to areas out of the factory.

5G distributed point monitoring 5G-based monitoring vehicle 5G multi-source, multi-dimensional big

data model

04 Intelligent production improves quality and efficiency

Take pipeline inspection as an example. Traditional manual inspection of pipelines have such problems as a low frequency, a high risk, a heavy

workload, and difficult implementation. The use of 5G + drones has effectively solved these problems by photographing pipeline conditions from the

top and sending the images to the edge nodes in real time for online AI analysis. This has enhanced the pipeline inspection efficiency by 10-fold, with

the overall efficiency increased by 30% and the cost saved by RMB 1 million per year.

5G connected drone Drone-aided inspection Remotely controlled drone

Solutions and Benefits

The 5G + smart petrochemical project highlights the following six successful practices

High-bandwidth uplink backhaul in explosion-

proof areas. The project team and its partners

simultaneously completed the explosion-proof

transformation of Huawei pRRU and ZTE pRRU

nationwide for the first time to address 5G signal

coverage in explosion-proof areas.

5G explosion-proof terminals. The project team

developed 5G explosion-proof cameras, 5G AR

helmets, 5G explosion-proof mobile phones,

5G audio and video inspection devices, 5G on-

site intelligent monitoring stations and other 5G

terminals to address 5G terminal challenges in the

petrochemical industry.

Multiple types of 5G private networks. The project

production environment used the Adjacent 5G

private network with UPF deployed on lower layers,

with Wide-area private network serving as a backup

to ensure higher availability of 5G network.

Integrated operation of 5G private network and

NB-IoT network. The project enabled local data

offloading of NB-IoT networks via the lowered UPF

for the first time in the industry and provided an

operation management platform integrating both

the NB-IoT and 5G private networks for visualised

management and control of the networks.

5G explosion-proof terminals. The project team

developed 5G explosion-proof cameras, 5G AR

helmets, 5G explosion-proof mobile phones,

5G audio and video inspection devices, 5G on-

site intelligent monitoring stations and other 5G

terminals to address 5G terminal challenges in the

petrochemical industry.

Based on the 5G + intelligent cloud platform for the

petrochemical industry + application, the project has

created 15 application scenarios in six major fields.

The 5G + smart petrochemical solution of Sinopec Guangzhou will be replicated and promoted in 32 refineries under Sinopec Group, and the 5G +

petrochemical industry application standards will be outputted. Furthermore, its best practices will be promoted in the petrochemical industry at

home and abroad.

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