In the period 2008 - 2009, Hasel Invent, under the name "CENTRALIZED SYSTEM OF MONITORING AND CONTROL OF A NATURAL GAS TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGICAL NODE" created a modern and complex product intended for the automation and monitoring of the functioning of technological nodes within the equipped natural gas transport networks with valves with electric, pneumatic or hydropneumatic actuation. The product contains both HARDWARE equipment and a part of SOFTWARE, integrated into a flexible control and data acquisition system, which ensures the possibility of automatic management of all processes carried out at the level of a natural gas transportation technological node.
Through the implementation of this system, centralized local monitoring and control is ensured, as well as complete automation of existing technological installations in a natural gas transport node, such as: on/off valves, regulating valves, odorization installations, godevil receiving/launching installations , methanol injection plants, gas heating plants, etc. The system also ensures the acquisition, numerical processing and memorization of technological parameters (pressures, temperatures, flows), facilitating the possibility of integrating these stations into S.C.A.D.A. type systems.
The system was designed in such a way that it can be easily adapted to various configurations of a technological node, regardless of the type of shareholders with which the valves are equipped and regardless of the type of parameter transducers and flow calculators used to measure the quantities of gases circulated through the node . Its HARD structure also allows the integration within the same monitoring and control installation of actuators from several manufacturers and of various generations, from simple electromechanical or pneumatic ones to intelligent ones with digital communication, so that an operator using this system can have total and perfect "transparent" control of all electrically, pneumatically, or hydropneumatically operated valves in the technological installation, using the same controls and viewing the status information for all types of valves used in the same way. Also, the system can take data from any type of parameter transducer, either with unified signal 4-20mA and HART communication protocol, or with exclusively digital communication (Modbus RTU, Profibus DP, Foundation Fieldbus, Lon Works, etc.) , being able to integrate transducers with wireless communication into its structure.
The central element of the product is a digital data acquisition and processing system that allows the retrieval of information from the field instrumentation and the provision of commands to the valves by means of a process computer equipped with a monitoring and command program developed by Hasel Invent specialists, configurable for any technological hub structure for transporting natural gas. The developed monitoring and control program has been registered since 2009 at the Romanian Copyright Office and was implemented for the first time at the end of 2009 at the Onești Technological Node within the Mediaș National Gas Transport Company.