Automatic adjustment and control system for internal illumination of driller room of ocean platform

By designing an automatic adjustment light control system in the drilling room, using multiple illumination sensors and PLC controllers, the problems of manual operation of traditional drilling room lighting adjustment and frequent ambient light changes are solved, and the fine adjustment of the ambient light in the drilling room is achieved, improving the working environment comfort and safety of drilling personnel.

CN119507786APending Publication Date: 2025-02-25CHINA NATIONAL OFFSHORE OIL (CHINA) CO LTD +1
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Application Number
CN202411633519.3
Authority / Receiving Office
CN · China
Patent Type
Applications(China)
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Filing Date
2024-11-15
Publication Date
2025-02-25

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Technical Problem

The design of traditional drilling room lacks humanized considerations. The ambient light control and adjustment is manual operation, which is difficult to adjust during complex geological drilling or working conditions. The ambient light of marine drilling changes frequently, affecting the indoor light of drilling.

Method used

Design an automatic control system for internal lighting of the marine platform drill room, using multiple illumination sensors, time servers and weather information, combined with PLC controllers and electric sunshades, to realize automatic adjustment of the ambient lighting in the drill room.

Benefits of technology

It realizes fine adjustment of the ambient light in the drill driver's room, alleviates the visual fatigue of the drill driver during long-term operations, reduces the risk of misoperation, and has the ability to self-check and alarm for faults.

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Abstract

The invention relates to an automatic adjustment and control system for internal illumination of a driller room of an ocean platform. The automatic adjustment and control system comprises a control system, a time server, a plurality of illuminance sensors, an execution mechanism and an illumination lamp, each illuminance sensor is used for collecting illuminance information at a preset position in the driller room in real time and sending the illuminance information to the control system; the control system generates an opening degree and illumination parameter control instruction according to illumination information sent by the illumination sensor, time information sent by the time server and weather information obtained through a network and sends the opening degree and illumination parameter control instruction to the execution mechanism and the illumination lamp. The executing mechanism is used for adjusting the opening degree according to the opening degree control instruction and returning opening degree feedback information to the control system, and the control system adjusts the opening degree control instruction; and the illumination lamp adjusts the illumination intensity according to the received illumination parameter instruction, so that automatic control and adjustment of the environment illumination in the driller room are realized. The method can be widely applied to the field of oil-gas drilling and development.
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Technical Field

[0001] The invention relates to the field of oil and gas drilling and development, in particular to the field of oil rig driller control room design and control system integration, in particular to an automatic illumination adjustment control system inside a driller room of an offshore platform. Background Art

[0002] The oil drilling rig is a large set of equipment with numerous working machines and complex functions. According to the difference in functions, it can be divided into eight systems: ground rotary feeding system, circulation system, lifting system, power drive system, transmission system, control and display system, support system and auxiliary system. Among them, the driller's control room is the core component of the control and display system, and is also the control center of the oil drilling rig. It is praised by the industry as the "driver's cab" and "heart" of the oil drilling rig. As the environment where drillers work for a long time, the design of the traditional driller's room is based on the installation and layout of equipment such as the drilling rig operating table instrument, and basically does not consider the driller's room environment and the comfort of the personnel experience. The driller works for a long time and must always maintain a high degree of attention. A comfortable environment at all times has a good effect on relieving the physical and psychological fatigue of the driller.

[0003] However, the current driller room design has the following problems: 1. The current ambient light control in the driller's room is to manually draw the curtains, turn on and off the lights, and adjust the touch brightness. When the driller is drilling in complex geology or dealing with complex working conditions, it is not easy to free up his hands or leave the driller's operating chair to make adjustments.

[0004] 2. Since offshore drilling is an uninterrupted 24-hour operation in an outdoor environment, with the transition from morning to night, the changes in the weather and ambient light at sea have a very direct impact on the indoor lighting of the driller.

[0005] 3. The current layout of the driller's room does not fully consider humanized design, and the operator's workload is relatively heavy. Summary of the invention

[0006] In view of the above problems, the purpose of the present invention is to provide an automatic adjustment and control system for the internal lighting of the driller's room of an offshore platform. The system is used for automatic adjustment and control of the internal and external environment of the driller's room of an offshore platform. It combines multiple illumination sensors and time and weather information to automatically control and adjust the ambient lighting in the driller's room to ensure that the lighting is controlled in a state that the driller feels most comfortable.

[0007] To achieve the above object, the present invention adopts the following technical solutions: An automatic light adjustment control system for an offshore platform driller's room, comprising: Control system, time server, several illuminance sensors, actuators and lighting fixtures; Each illumination sensor is used to collect illumination information at a preset position in the driller's room in real time and send it to the control system; The control system generates opening and lighting parameter control instructions according to the illumination information sent by the illumination sensor, the time information sent by the time server and the weather information obtained through the network, and sends them to the actuator and the lighting fixture respectively; The actuator is used to adjust the opening according to the opening control instruction and return the opening feedback information to the control system, and the control system adjusts the opening control instruction; The lighting fixture adjusts the light intensity according to the received light parameter instruction, thereby realizing automatic control and adjustment of the ambient light in the driller's room.

[0008] Furthermore, the illumination sensors include at least three groups, which are respectively arranged at preset positions on the driller's room touch screen, the driller's instrument panel and the driller's room roof, and the illumination value information collected by each illumination sensor is sent to the control system in real time.

[0009] Furthermore, the illumination sensor is an explosion-proof illumination sensor.

[0010] Furthermore, the lighting fixture is an explosion-proof lighting fixture.

[0011] Furthermore, the actuator is an electric sunshade installed at a corresponding position in the driller's room, and the electric sunshade is provided with an opening feedback sensor that can send opening feedback information to the control system.

[0012] Furthermore, the control system is implemented by a PLC controller, which is provided with a light calculation module, a control module and a communication interface module; The illumination calculation module is used to calculate the illumination information of the environment in the driller's room according to illumination information, time information and weather information; The control module is used to control the opening of the actuator and the lighting fixture according to preset rules and lighting information, and to adjust the opening of the actuator according to the opening feedback information; The communication interface module is used to connect to the existing drilling platform control system, so that the user can manually control the actuator and the lighting fixture through the operating buttons of the driller's chair.

[0013] Furthermore, the control module is provided with a sight line detection module, a priority setting module, a light threshold setting module and a light instruction output module; The sight line detection module is used to determine the relationship between the actuator opening and the driller's field of view to ensure that the opening range does not affect the driller's operating line of sight; The priority setting module is used to set the adjustment sequence of the actuator and the lighting fixture; The light threshold setting module is used to set the light threshold in the driller's room.

[0014] The present invention adopts the above technical solution, which has the following advantages: 1. The present invention calculates the illumination value weights and time values ​​of multiple illumination sensors, outputs control signals to drive the actuator to adjust the illumination in the driller's room, and can finely adjust the indoor ambient light intensity of the driller's room, the external light, and the actual needs, thereby alleviating the visual fatigue of the driller during long-term operation and reducing the risk of misoperation; 2. The present invention has the ability of self-checking and alarming. Once a lamp failure or an abnormality of the sunshade actuator motor is detected, a fault notification can be issued, and timely troubleshooting can be carried out to restore indoor illumination management and control; 3. The system of the present invention can be connected to the HMI (drilling rig operating system human-machine interaction screen) interface on the driller's chair, which can meet the needs of the driller to set and manually and automatically adjust the sunshade while sitting on the driller's chair, ensuring that his vision is clear and not affected by external glare.

[0015] Therefore, the present invention can be widely applied to the field of oil and gas drilling and development. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0016] Various other advantages and benefits will become apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art by reading the detailed description of the preferred embodiments below. The accompanying drawings are only for the purpose of illustrating the preferred embodiments and are not to be considered as limiting the present invention. Throughout the accompanying drawings, the same reference numerals are used to represent the same components. In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 The present invention is a schematic diagram of an automatic lighting adjustment control system in a driller's room of an offshore platform provided by an embodiment of the present invention. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0017] In order to make the purpose, technical solution and advantages of the embodiment of the present invention clearer, the technical solution of the embodiment of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below in conjunction with the drawings of the embodiment of the present invention. Obviously, the described embodiment is a part of the embodiment of the present invention, not all of the embodiments. Based on the described embodiment of the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by ordinary technicians in this field belong to the scope of protection of the present invention.

[0018] It should be noted that the terms used herein are only for describing specific embodiments and are not intended to limit exemplary embodiments according to the present invention. As used herein, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the singular form is also intended to include the plural form. In addition, it should be understood that when the terms "comprising" and / or "including" are used in this specification, it indicates the presence of features, steps, operations, devices, components and / or combinations thereof.

[0019] Currently, there is only an automatic control system on the market to control the switches of indoor lights in the driller's room. The illumination varies greatly, which not only affects the comfort of the driller's operating environment, but also poses a potential threat to the safety and efficiency of drilling operations.

[0020] Based on this, in some embodiments of the present invention, there is provided an automatic control system for the lighting inside the driller's room of an offshore platform. The system combines multiple illumination sensors and time and weather information to automatically control the ambient lighting inside the driller's room, ensuring that the lighting is controlled in a state that the driller feels most comfortable. The system can be used for automatic control of the environment inside and outside the driller's room of an offshore platform. The present invention can finely adjust the ambient lighting intensity of the driller's room, external light, and actual needs, which can alleviate the visual fatigue of the driller during long-term operations and reduce the risk of misoperation. It can prevent unstable illumination from covering up important information on the equipment dashboard. The present invention is easy to integrate into the existing drilling platform control system, which is convenient for unified management and maintenance. At the same time, it provides a friendly user interface, allowing operators to easily set and adjust lighting parameters to experience and use external natural ambient light as much as possible, thereby achieving environmental protection and energy saving effects.

[0021] Example 1 like Figure 1 As shown, the present invention provides an automatic illumination adjustment control system for the driller's room of an offshore platform, which includes a control system, a time server, a plurality of illumination sensors, an actuator and lighting fixtures. Each illumination sensor is used to collect illumination information at a preset position in the driller's room in real time and send it to the control system; the control system generates an illumination control instruction according to the illumination information sent by the illumination sensor, the time information sent by the time server and the weather information obtained through the network, and adjusts the illumination control instruction according to the opening feedback information of the actuator; the actuator and the lighting fixture automatically control and adjust the ambient illumination in the driller's room according to the received illumination control instruction.

[0022] Furthermore, in this embodiment, the illumination sensors include at least three groups, which are respectively arranged at preset positions on the driller's room touch screen, the driller's instrument panel and the driller's room roof, and the illumination value information collected by each illumination sensor is sent to the control system in real time.

[0023] Furthermore, in this embodiment, the illumination sensor adopts an explosion-proof illumination sensor.

[0024] Furthermore, the lighting fixtures are explosion-proof lighting fixtures.

[0025] Furthermore, the actuator is an electric sunshade installed at a corresponding position in the driller's room, and the electric sunshade is provided with an opening feedback sensor that can send opening feedback information to the control system.

[0026] Furthermore, the control system is implemented using a PLC controller, which is provided with a light calculation module, a control module and a communication interface module. Among them, the light calculation module is used to calculate the light information of the environment in the driller's room according to the illumination information, time information and weather information; the control module is used to control the opening of the actuator and the lighting fixture according to the preset rules and the current light information, and adjust the opening of the actuator according to the opening feedback information; the communication interface module is used to connect to the existing drilling platform control system, so that the user can manually control the actuator and the lighting fixture through the operating buttons of the driller's chair.

[0027] Furthermore, the control module is provided with a sight detection module, a priority setting module, a light threshold setting module and a light command output module. Among them, the sight detection module is used to judge the relationship between the opening of the actuator, i.e., the electric sunshade, and the driller's field of vision, so as to ensure that the opening range does not affect the driller's operating line of sight; the priority setting module is used to set the light adjustment sequence, for example, it can be set to use external natural ambient light as much as possible; the light threshold setting module is used to set the light threshold in the driller's room to ensure that the light in the driller's room is within a suitable range, which can relieve the visual fatigue of the driller during long-term operation, and at the same time avoid unstable illumination from covering up important information on the equipment dashboard.

[0028] Finally, it should be noted that the above embodiments are only used to illustrate the technical solutions of the present invention rather than to limit it. Although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the above embodiments, ordinary technicians in the relevant field should understand that the specific implementation methods of the present invention can still be modified or replaced by equivalents. Any modification or equivalent replacement that does not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention should be covered within the scope of protection of the claims of the present invention.

Claims

1. An automatic lighting adjustment control system for the driller's room of an offshore platform, characterized in that: include: Control system, time server, several illuminance sensors, actuators and lighting fixtures; Each illumination sensor is used to collect illumination information at a preset position in the driller's room in real time and send it to the control system; The control system generates opening and lighting parameter control instructions according to the illumination information sent by the illumination sensor, the time information sent by the time server and the weather information obtained through the network, and sends them to the actuator and the lighting fixture respectively; The actuator is used to adjust the opening according to the opening control instruction and return the opening feedback information to the control system, and the control system adjusts the opening control instruction; The lighting fixture adjusts the light intensity according to the received light parameter instruction, thereby realizing automatic control and adjustment of the ambient light in the driller's room.

2. The automatic illumination adjustment control system in the drilling room of an offshore platform as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that: The illumination sensors include at least three groups, which are respectively arranged at preset positions of the driller's room touch screen, the driller's instrument panel and the driller's room roof. The illumination value information collected by each illumination sensor is sent to the control system in real time.

3. The automatic illumination adjustment control system in the drilling room of an offshore platform as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that: The illumination sensor adopts an explosion-proof illumination sensor.

4. The automatic illumination adjustment control system in the drilling room of an offshore platform as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that: The lighting fixture is an explosion-proof lighting fixture.

5. The automatic illumination adjustment control system in the drilling room of an offshore platform as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that: The actuator is an electric sunshade installed at a corresponding position in the driller's room, and an opening feedback sensor is provided on the electric sunshade, which can send opening feedback information to the control system.

6. The automatic illumination adjustment control system in the drilling room of an offshore platform as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that: The control system is implemented by a PLC controller, which is provided with a light calculation module, a control module and a communication interface module; The illumination calculation module is used to calculate the illumination information of the environment in the driller's room according to illumination information, time information and weather information; The control module is used to control the opening of the actuator and the lighting fixture according to preset rules and lighting information, and to adjust the opening of the actuator according to the opening feedback information; The communication interface module is used to connect to the existing drilling platform control system, so that the user can manually control the actuator and the lighting fixture through the operating buttons of the driller's chair.

7. The automatic illumination adjustment control system in the driller's room of an offshore platform as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that: The control module is provided with a sight line detection module, a priority setting module, a light threshold setting module and a light instruction output module; The sight line detection module is used to determine the relationship between the actuator opening and the driller's field of view to ensure that the opening range does not affect the driller's operating line of sight; The priority setting module is used to set the adjustment sequence of the actuator and the lighting fixture; The light threshold setting module is used to set the light threshold in the driller's room.

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