Oil pipeline Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems monitor and help control pipes transporting both crude and refined petroleum products. Typical SCADA system architectures focus on centralized data collection and control – however, this system has vulnerabilities that decrease the overall security of the system, especially for an oil pipeline SCADA. Service-oriented architec...

The majority of overland transport needs for crude petroleum and refined products are met using pipelines. Numerous studies have developed optimization methods design these systems in order to minimize construction costs while meeting capacity requirements. Here, we formulate problems optimize the operations existing single liquid commodity pipeline subject physical flow pump engineering constr...

1 Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Technical University Munich, Arcisstr. 21, 80333 Munich, Germany 2 School of Power and Mechanical Engineering, Wuhan University, Luo-Jia-Shan, Wuchang 430072, China 3 College of Pipeline and Civil Engineering, China University of Petroleum, Changjiang Road 66, Qingdaos 266580, China 4 Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute...

A prototype least cost pipeline routing was performed using various data and GIS analysis. Ahvaz-Marun oil pipeline in south west of IRAN was chosen for development of the prototype. The Ahvaz-Marun pipeline was about 34-km and carries Ethan gas from Marun Petrochemical Company (MPC) to Ahvaz. A model was developed incorporating pipeline length, topography, geology, land use, stream, wetland, r...

The leakage of petroleum can lead to serious economical loss. How to find out leakage spot is the key technology that we will discuss in the paper. In this paper, we apply wavelet transform to solving the problem. Because the audio signal from the leakage spot is very weak, when the sound spreads to the ends, the signal tested by sensor has been sinked down by other noise signals. It is difficu...

Workers in the petroleum industry are potentially exposed to a variety of petrochemicals, including benzene or benzene-containing liquids. Although a large number of studies of petroleum workers have been conducted to examine leukemia and other cancer risks, few existing studies have investigated cell-type-specific leukemias. One of the major reasons for the lack of cell-type-specific analysis ...