Proactive Alerts Preventing Alkylation Plant Shutdowns

Hao Zhou, Process Control Engineer, Parkland Refining

At Parkland, we have improved supply chain reliability for our sulfuric acid deliveries using Seeq, which averted a costly $1MM/year shutdown in our Alkylation unit. To empower our vendors to play a more proactive role in managing delivery schedules, an automated email report on tank level forecasts was developed in Seeq Data Lab (SDL) to improve cross-company communications and simplify data sharing with multiple vendors. Tank level forecasts are automatically generated every shift in real-time, and stakeholders are alerted with customized content and figures using our fit for purpose alerts developed in SDL