Powerful Features for Your Operators. Using features, such as configurable tank displays and powerful alarm tools, your operators are easily able to monitor key information, efficiently managing your bulk liquid inventories and reacting quickly to changing conditions across your facility.
Inventory Tank Gauging
- Predefined display templates show tank data both graphically and alphanumerically, templates include tank details, tank groups, trends and reports.
- Task Groups. Quickly select the groups of functions you require using the left hand tree view.
- Icon Toolbars. Operate more efficiently by creating a toolbar based on the specialized functions you use.
- Dynamic Alarm Management. React to alarms
quickly and easily using the new alarm toolbar
and alarm alerts.
- Monitor measured and calculated variables, such as levels,
temperatures, volumes, flow, etc., and select engineering units for individual variables based on your measuring applications.
- Perform calculations to recognized standards, such as American Petroleum Institute’s (API) 2004 standards, ASTM, IP, GB/T, GOST, JIS, Polynomial and others - See a complete list of calculated variables and calculation methods here.
- Schedule gauge commands automatically, such as density profiling or water bottom measurement, for known down times or based on a daily schedule.
- Print or save reports of your daily operations, including inventory, alarms, events, historical data and more.
- Integrate FuelsManager® with all major instrumentation, such as float & tape, servo, radar or magnetostrictive tank gauges, pressure transmitters, flow meters and leak detection systems with Varec®’s Remote Terminal Unit (8130 RTU) or TankGate Interface (8300 TGI) devices. Tank gauge manufacturers include;
- Varec®
- Enraf
- GSI
- L&J
- MTS
- SAAB
- Whessoe
- Endress+Hauser
- Ceate and modify tank groups in real-time and choose which tanks and tank data are displayed in each group.
- Switch quickly between graphical and tabular tank views using a single hot key.
- Graphical Tank Group displays show a single (operator configurable) process variable per tank, along with a dynamically updating image of the tank contents. The display also indicates the tank mode and presence/direction of product movement (flow) into or out of the tank
- Graphics automatically change to reflect the tank shape defined in the FuelsManager® database (i.e. vertical cylinder, sphere, horizontal). Additional data for a tank is available by either double-clicking on the tank to open the Tank Detail display or right-clicking and selecting "Process Data" from the pop-up menu.
- Static Tank Groups remain constant unless a tank is added, inserted or deleted manually by the operator. These are generally grouped by location. For example, tanks 6-10, which are located in the "Truck Rack Storage Area", are combined into a static group.
- Dynamic Tank Groups are created by defineing a filter (or condition) that a tank must meet before it is included in the Tank Group, e.g. level greater than 10ft, or product equals Jet A. Having defined this filter, FuelsManager® then automatically adds and deletes tanks from the Tank Group based on the filter conditions. As with the Static Tank Groups, the operator can still define what data is displayed in which column and can save the group with a user-defined name. Using the Dynamic Tank Group the operator could:
- Define a Tank Group for each product and have FuelsManager® automatically add/delete a tank from a group when the product is changed.
- Define a Tank Group that shows only tanks where the flow is greater than zero, effectively creating a "moving tank" display.
- Combine conditions in a filter. For example, a Tank Group could be defined to show tanks with flow greater than zero and remaining transfer time less than 60 minutes. Operators would see a display containing moving tanks that are estimated to complete the transfer within the next hour (i.e. critical tanks).
