Andressa Nicolau

By Andressa dos Santos Nicolau, Marcelo Carvalho dos Santos, Victor Henrique Cabral Pinheiro, Filipe Santana Moreira do Desterro, Roberto Schirru, Mario Cesar Mello Massa de Campos and Alexandre Wanderley

Currently, there is a trend in reduction of the number of industrial plant operators. The challenges are mainly during emergency situations: how to support operator time management without increasing operational risks? SDA focuses on this area and aims to increase operator situational awareness (ability to perceive, understand and predict the future behavior of a process) through new technological paradigms, such as Expert System and Ecological Human Machine Interface (HMI) in order to provide operational support, maintenance and optimization of refining, exploration and system of production of oil and gas plants. In SDA, the most critical alerts are shown by priority, along with decision trees, trend charts and variable comparison charts. SDA aims to assist control room operators in solving a critical problem in the oil industry, that is the loss of safety function, associated with alarms, during alarm flood. The SDA results of the SDA are presented through its implementation in Sulfur Recovery Units—URE, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil.

Part of the book: Application of Expert Systems