System SAMER®TAS , in it’s basic version, is dedicated for automation of liquid fuel distribution process in fuel depots.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Currently there are also system’s verions to serve the distribution and storage of different petrochemical poducts (oils, asphalt) and biofuels (ethanol, RME) and also biomass (wood particles, pellet) and PE and PP pellets.

Main system tasks includes: measurements and registering of products amount, control and monitoring of trans-shipment, supervision of tank-truck traffic on terminals and accounting system also with forwarduing documents creating and data transferring with ERP systems (e.g. SAP R/3), forwarding systems or laboratory systems.

The SAMER®TAS system has modular structure and can spread over all fuel depot installations and equipment. For liquid fuel terminals there are: loading and unloading stations, storage tanks, pump stations, tank-truck scales, railway or car scales, fire-fighting installations.

The most important modules:

  • Tank-truck forwarding module and Tank-truck transport planning module,
  • Tank-truck traffic control module,
  • Access control module,
  • Technological process supervision module (SCADA),
  • Tank-truck loading station module and Rail tank-car loading station module,
  • Pump station module,
  • Tank farm module,
  • Additive dozing module and Bio-components module,
  • Reports and balances module,
  • Laboratory module,
  • CCTV module,
  • Occupational helath and safety self-checking trainings module,
  • Storage module,
  • Excise documents module, EMCS.pl system interface,
  • Administrative module,
  • Diagnostic module.

The individual modules of  SAMER®TAS are chosen for specific implementation, regarding to fuel terminal existing infrastructure and custmers’s needs.

SAMER®TAS (with the support from Central Forwarding System SAMER®NET) enables tank-truck driver self-service during the product acceptance and receiving. This scheme allows drivers to make most of the operations during the visit on the fuel terminal on their own, with the fuel terminal’s personnel minimal participation. The significant element of this scheme are multimedia kiosks for tank-truck drivers, which are devices like cashpoints, equipped with touch screen, proximity card reader, laser printer, air conditioner, camera and intercom and are dedicated to work both inside and outside.

Tank-truck driver and vehicle identification is performed with the proximity cards and card reader in the multimedia kiosk.

The main multimedia kiosk’s functions:

  • loading and unloading planning self-servive,
  • departure’s documents printing self-service (loaded fuel proof, bill of lading, quality certificates),
  • communication with the terminal’s personnel or call centre (via intercom)
  • photos and camera preview during the communication with the call centre,
  • text messages displaying for the tank-truck drivers (e.g. regulations updates), occupational health and safety training.

Self-service scheme was implemented in many terminals with the heavy traffic and allowed to decrease it. Special procedures an the loading stands enables to oparate the loading by the tank-truck driver without fuel terminal’s personnel. Thanks to that on the fuel terminals where SAMER®TAS is implemented the loading duration of ca. 30 000 litre of fuel (the tank-truck standard capacity) is below 10 minutes.  Decreasing the service time of the individual tank-truck has a direct impact on increasing the fuel terminal’s loading capability.

SAMER®TAS  has been integrated with the existing in fuel terminals laboratory systems (LIMS, ELIAS). Thanks to that tank-truck driver has a full set of documents from one source. Electronic circulation of the data makes the new sets of calculation available in the system, right after accomplishing necessary examination in the laboratory.

SAMER®TAS enables remote updating of fuel terminal’s software application.  This functionality can considerably simplify software changes management. Additionally, in case of forwarding workstation failure, the primary file structure and the client application can be simply restored.

The most important advantages of SAMER®TAS system:

  • Automatic service – tank-truck driver self-service on incoming/outgoing multimedia kiosks and print departures documents without terminal’s personnel attention,
  • Increasing fuel loading safety level – thanks to tank-truck grounding and overfilling systems,
  • Decreasing tank-truck driver service time – thanks to fuel loading process automation and automatic transport documents generating (bill of lading, loading fuel proofs and quality certificates),
  • Optimizing tank-truck traffic flow on fuel terminal by analysing the tank-truck time duration reports,
  • SCADA system continuous supervising of technological process, which enables recording of process signals and alarms,
  • Electronic data transfer with the business systems,
  • Particular devices runtime registering for better maintaining and failure preventing,
  • Protection against uncontrolled access to the system – suitable security profiles for operators and dispatchers,
  • Supporting for storage managemenet by products delivery and loaded product proof archiving,
  • Protection against uncontrolled products leak – reports and balances shows the place and the time where products decreases occurs.

The first implementations of SAMER®TAS took place in 1999-2000. Currently the System worsk in 26 huge fuel terminals of oil branch (13 PKN ORLEN S.A. Fuel Terminals, 9  OLPP Sp. z o.o. Fuel terminals, 4  Grupa LOTOS S.A. Fuel Terminals).

System SAMER®TAS is developed according to the latest business, logistic and law needs. Merrid Controls regularly updates SAMER®TAS software regarding to custometr’s demands and system reliability. SAMER®TAS was awarded with the GRAND PRIX at the “Oil & Gas Trades”.

Thanks to it’s open structure and modularity the SAMER®TAS has been implemented not only at fuel terminals but also at petrochemical product terminals (mineral and synthetic oils, asphalts, solvents, chemicals), biofuel terminals (ethanol, RME) and at various product bulk terminals (PE and PP pellets).

Implementation of SAMER®TAS:

  • Operator Logistyczny Paliw Płynnych Sp. z o.o. – nine fuel terminals(2000 ÷ 2013),
  • Polski Koncern Naftowy ORLEN S.A. – thirteen fuel terminals (2002 ÷ 2012),
  • Grupa Lotos S.A. – four fuel terminals (2005 ÷ 2014),
  • Orlen Oil Sp. z o.o. – one fuel terminal (2009),
  • Orlen Asfalt Sp. z o.o. – one loading terminal (2008 ÷ 2012),
  • Basell Orlen Polyolefins Sp. z o.o. – logistic platform NPP (2009 ÷ 2012),
  • Bioagra S.A. – ethanol production plant (2009 ÷ 2013),
  • Bioagra – Oil S.A. –RME production factory (2010 ÷ 2013),
  • Baza Paliw Sp. z o.o. (d. APEXIM AB) – one fuel terminal (2010 ÷ 2012),
  • ORLEN PetroTank Sp. z o.o. – one product terminal (2010),
  • Orlen Południe SA – one fuel terminal (2012),
  • PachemTech Sp.  z o.o. – one fuel terminal (2013).