Implementação de um sistema de medição volumétrica na Brasilgás através de turbinas para envasamento de gás liquefeito de petróleo – GLP

Abstract

The objective of this work is the presentation of a project on a new adequacy system of electronic carousel for the bottling of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in bottles, in Brasilgás, a Mataripe plant in Bahia. It was developed with the purpose of optimizing the existing automation process, from the use of volumetric flow meters of the turbine type, replacing those usually employed electronic weighing systems. Experimental tests were carried out with a prototype, in which 400 cylinders were bottled, and as a result, 92.7% of the samples presented high precision, allowing to reduce the rejection tolerance limits by half compared to the current system. Another result was the increase in production capacity by 40%, due to the possibility of increasing the speed of the carousel, increasing its productivity from 1234 to 1728 cylinders/hour, thus enabling the validation of the viability of the project implementation. The details of the results obtained are described and analyzed throughout this study.