【Ten Years of Great Development in Chemical Engineering Technology】Data Acquisition and Supervisory Control (SCADA) Systems for Domestic Finished Oil Pipelines from 1993 to 2021

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Ten years of rapid development in chemical engineering technology; praise for the prosperous and strong China. This is just a starting point to encourage more people to get involved, making things even more lively. HaiChuan becomes even better with your participation – we welcome everyone to join in the forum discussions. Be careful with fire risks as the heat increases in July. ---------------------------------------------- In September 2021, good news came from the Zhuhai station of **Pipeline Network Group’s South China branch: China’s first SCADA system for the collection of data and monitoring of refined oil pipelines, built entirely using domestically produced components, was successfully put into operation. 　　A SCADA system refers to the industrial control system for petroleum product pipelines, including a complete set of hardware and software. It is a data acquisition and supervision control system, acting as the \"heart\" of pipeline transportation, and is widely used in fields such as petroleum product pipelines. In order to break the long-standing foreign technological monopoly and reduce the overall lifecycle costs as well as security risks of such systems, South China Company established a dedicated task force in 2016. By working together with industry leaders on technological research, it managed to develop domestic versions of SCADA system software, which have been operating smoothly in the water supply networks of the Pearl River Delta for five consecutive years. However, due to the difficulty in advancing domestic chip technology, the underlying hardware of these systems still cannot completely rid itself of reliance on imports. 　　In response to this situation, South China Company, in collaboration with Hangzhou Hilscher Automation Co., Ltd., developed China’s first SCADA system for refined oil pipelines that features 100% domestic ownership of both the chips and operating system. “This is the first SCADA system to achieve full domestic production, with all hardware and software truly being of domestic origin. ”Yang Changqun, the chief technical officer of the refined oil pipeline SCADA system development project and a senior expert at South China Company, said. 　　Yang Changqun explained that this system features lightweight design, high performance, and international standards; it is compatible with the three mainstream CPU architecture systems used in the industrial sector, and it supports efficient coordination among multiple systems. The system is based on the intrinsic security of the core control system, and incorporates multi-level protection and monitoring technologies as well as secure and reliable chips to prevent attacks by malicious programs. It achieves a breakthrough application of trusted computing in industrial embedded control, establishing intrinsic security, reliability, and dynamic proactive protection for the core control system. This meets the requirements for high reliability and safety in the operation of petroleum pipelines, achieving the goals of autonomy, security, reliability, and efficiency. 　　The successful deployment and operation of the SCADA system represents a perfect integration of chips, databases, operating systems, industrial software, automation technologies developed in the field of indigenous industries, along with the technologies used in the large-scale oil and gas pipeline transportation sector; this is of great significance for ensuring **energy security.