SIMATIC WinCC - Sales Order Report

Full process automation and control of a Tank Terminal using WinCC and integrated Safety Antwerp - Belgium

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Business ChallengeVesta faced the challenge to upgrade the plant to fulfill the SEVESO safety and reporting requirements imposed by Europe. Archiving and internal distribution of documents and reports was done manually based on hardcopies. It was impossible to get important business KPI’s out of the different systems.

Technical ChallengeThe tank terminal that Vesta took over was mainly equipped with relay technology and systems of different manufacturers. Pumps and valves were controlled with local start/stop switches. Several utilities like heating and water treatment were locally controlled by stand-alone systems. The loading results of trucks and railcars needed a manual daily import into the administrative Access database.

The administrative and operational processes were handled within different systems like Microsoft Word, Excel and an Access database with in-house developments. Each depart-ment created their own documents and methods to fulfill the activities and business requirements.

The former Nafta (B) terminal, one of the Belgian port of Antwerp’s major petroleum products

and biofuels, was acquired in October 2009 by Mercuria Energy, one of the world’s largest

independent energy trading companies. Vesta Terminal Antwerp NV became the new name of

the tank terminal and offers 830 thousand cubic meters of storage capacity

for petroleum products and biofuels in the Port of Antwerp with excellent accessibility to sea,

road, rail and pipeline infrastructure. The terminal is equipped to load and unload a major sea-

going vessel and three barges simultaneously.

Vesta Terminal Antwerp decided to launch a major project called “Vesta Administrative and Process Automation System” or VAPAS.

The goal of VAPAS is to achieve at least:• Compliancytothelatestlegalrequirementsandregulations:

customs, ADNR, Vlarem, Seveso, Atex, SIL• Implementationof1processlayertosuperviseandcontrol

the automated equipments of the whole plant with centra-lization of alarms and historical trending

• Implementationof1centralizeddataanddocumentmanagement system which needs to be able to be linked to SAP finance and accounting (future)

• Optimizationofexistingbusinessprocessescontrolledbya centralized system for the product movements (nomina-tion), the loading/unloading and the order administration.

• Increaseoverallefficiencyandterminalperformance

TIA Product Inventory

• PLCControllers 1xSIMATICS7-416F-3PN/DP

• DecentralizedIO 11xET200iSPstations with failsafe IO

5xET200iSPwithIO(nofailsafe)

• IndustrialNetwork ProfibusDP(distr.I/O.....) Optical Link Modules for fiber optic

• HMIsoftware 2xWinCCV78KRTservers Redundancy option 2xWinCCClients

Sales OrderBranch:ChemicalsApplication typical: Tank farmsEnd-Customer:VestaTankTerminalAntwerpNVGeneralContractor&SystemIntegration:ToptechSystemsNV

Project Roll-outKick-off:Q4.2010Engineeringphase:Q1.2011–Q22011(Phase1)GoLive:Q4.2011(Phase1)In planning Phase2:engineeringQ1.2012–goliveQ4.2012Phase3:engineeringQ1.2013–goliveQ4.2014Phase4:engineeringQ1.2014–goliveQ4.2014

Results at a glance

• FulfillSevesorequirements

• Increasedefficiency,performance,flexibility&safety

• Fulltraceabilityofallloadoperations

• Automationconceptwithbestinclassflexibility

• Easilyexpandablesystem

• TIAadvantages:1engineeringsystemforScadaandPLCwitheasilyintegratedSafety

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Industry Sector

Industry Automation and Drive Technologies

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1070Brussels

BELGIUM

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Sales Order Report

Printed in Belgium

©Siemensnv2012

Publicationdate:09/2012

Division:IPSPG1

i/eSoRleadby:TB²D–FA02

Contactpersons

Siemens

Arlette Sente

arlette.sente@siemens.com

Toptech

FrançoisVanNoten

fvannoten@idexcorp.com

Solution TheVAPASprojectissplitinto3distinctpartsandimplemen-tationwillbedonein4phases,spreadover4years:•AdministrativeAutomationSystem•ProcessAutomationSystem•ElectricalandInstrumentation

FortheAdministrativeAutomationSystem,Vestahaschosento work with Brainum.

FortheProcessAutomationSystemandtheElectricalandInstrumentation implementation, Vesta has chosen to work with TopTech Systems NV as main contractor because of its huge experience in the sector.

ThesolutionconsistsofonelargeS7-400safetyPLCwithET 200iSPstationswithfailsafedistributedIO,linkedtoaredundantWinCCserver/clientconfigurationasprocessautomation system to control and monitor the whole plant. WinCC’sintegratedOPCServerisusedtoexchangedatawiththe Brainum management system.

Vesta has chosen Toptech Systems and Siemens because of the following factors:•ExperienceinFactory&ProcessSafetysince1980 withS5-110F•IntegrateddiagnosticsinWinCCandSTEP7•Onebussystemforstandardensafety-relatedsignals•Cheaperandeasiertoimplement,maintainandexpand•References(Vopak,LeftbankTerminalAntwerp,Oiltanking)•Productsupportandtrainingonsafetydirectives.

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