Transcript WiMax Solutions for the Oil & Gas Industry

“Dead Sea Works” Customer Story
Oded Pluda
Alvarion, 2007
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Agenda
• About the customer
• The Challenge
• Applications
• The Alvarion solution
• Business benefit
• Looking ahead
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About the customer
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“Dead Sea Works”
Owned by Israel Chemicals Ltd.
World fourth largest producer of potash products: 11% of
world potash production.
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Main mining area and process plant located in the south of
the dead see, Israel.
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The Challenge
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“Dead Sea works” challenges
Improve security
Provide video connectivity to remote pump houses and control
rooms.
Support the manufacturing process
Provide data connectivity to off-shore dredges
To build a data network that can operate and
survive extreme conditions of altitude and heat.
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Applications
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The production process
Mineral “harvested” from solar evaporation pan.
“Dredges” (a large vassal that slowly moves over the pans
surface) "harvests" the solution.
On the “Dredge” there is lot of industrial manufacturing
equipment to control the operation of the raft.
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Remote operations
“Dead sea works” permit area is over 4000 km²
Pump houses and Generator rooms located a few miles from
plant facility.
Remote locations operation does not require presents.
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The Alvarion Solution
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Products - BreezeNET DS.11 and PRO.11
High survivability
MTBF over 11 years; over 99.99% availability
-40°c to + 60°c temperature range
Robustness & redundancy
IP-67 rating (NEMA 4X equivalent)
AU & SU redundancy
Range & coverage
Maximum cell radius up to 32 miles
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Deployment
BreezeNET DS.11 Point-to-point links were set up between the main plant building,
where the network backbone resides, and the remote pumping stations and offices
located on the shore of the evaporation pans.
At each remote office, a BreezeNET PRO11 access point was installed, serving up to 3
dredges, at point-to-multipoint.
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Supporting the production process
Dredges are equipped with PRO.11 CPEs
DS.11 base stations situated along the banks of
every pond
Extraction and processing information transmitted
from the dredges back to HQ.
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Supporting remote locations
Remote location equipped
with PRO.11 CPEs and Close
circuit cameras.
CCTV monitor activities and
movements and send a
constant stream of images
back over the DS.11 network
to the main office for
monitoring
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Business Benefit
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Benefits points
A reliable and remote data network for remote
operation
streamline manufacturing processes and increased
production levels
Improved security and protection of expensive
equipment on remote pump stations and control
rooms.
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Benefit as perceived by customer
"The Alvarion Wireless network is essential
for the daily operations of the DSW. The
increase in uptime and the improved
productivity could not have been made
without the use of wireless broadband
network. Previously, any production
equipment malfunction aboard the rafts
would require time to drive to the site and
repair. Now, remote monitoring fixes these
issues. Uptime is increased and so has
overall productivity. Alvarion products have
proved to be reliable and robust, and have
exceeded our expectations”
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Adi Babayof, Industrial communication &
Instrumentation Engineering department
manager, Dead Sea works
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Looking Ahead
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Future trends
Technology requires more bandwidth
enabling new and enhanced manufacturing capabilities
“Un-manned Dredge” trial
Look into upgrade to BreezeNET B series,
improving
performance
latency
Throughput
Security
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Thank you
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