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BOC Optimizes Global Operations with Advanced Process Control Managing energy costs is critical to the success of any industrial gas company. The highest operating cost incurred in air separation processes is the cost of electricity. This cost can be as high as two-thirds of the total cost of production, and plants that produce liquid products can potentially use tens of thousands of Kilowatts per hour. Model Predictive Control, or MPC technology has been maximizing process performance, improving efficiencies, reducing energy usage, raw material usage, and environmental impact in process industries for over 25 years. Click here to read full article...
Ease of connection improves plant efficiency for Santee Cooper OPC technology provides ease of access to the wide variety of devices in our enterprise, eliminating costly custom or proprietary interfaces. Providing us with a flexible and scalable solution we can build on for years to come. We are confident and secure in our ability to meet the 98% uptime emissions reporting requirements. Now that these manual processes are automated, we are saving approximately 4 hours of resource allocation in a 24 hour shift rotation. Click here to read full article...
Water SCADA - San Luis Obispo In the good old days, industrial process control was pretty easy. It was all done by hand. If you wanted to fill a tank with water, you turned on a pump. When the tank got full, you shut it off. With a telescope, you could even do this at a fair distance, assuming it wasn't dark and you could see the indicator on the tank. Click here to read full article...
Water & Wastewater Treatment Bristol Babcock has consistently been one of the top suppliers of control systems to
the water and waste water treatment markets*. This involvement dates to the early
1900’s when Professor W.H. Bristol invented the Pulse Duration Modulation method of
long distance measurement. Click here to read full article...
Filter Control & Backwash Sequencing A typical water treatment plant filter combines about six (6) valves, three (3) flow
metering devices, filter levels, etc. into a maze of piping that directly controls the
cleanliness of our water. Proper flow/level control and backwash sequences are the
determining factor in the cleanliness. Click here to read full article...
Water Security With security assessments and implementation of appropriate measures receiving the full attention of the water industry, we have been exploring how technology can contribute to these efforts. We have consulted extensively with our users, reviewed measures they have put in place over the years and discussed their latest plans. Click here to read full article...
Water Treatment Plant Achieves Remote Real-Time Control with Moore APACS+ Dwr Cymru-Welsh Water uses an APACS+ process automation
system and LAN technology to monitor its Hirwaun water
treatment plant from a neighboring site. By supplementing
existing plant telemetry with local area network (LAN) technology
to share information in real-time between the Hirwaun
plant and a neighboring plant, control can be maintained from
a single database. “The result is a low cost solution with exceptional
power and flexibility that is achieved by adopting
methods more familiar in business data processing applications,”
said Neil Lancett, UK Systems Sales Manager at Moore. Click here to read full article...
Peaking Plant Adapts to Deregulation Newport power station is a single-unit 500 MW Gas- and Oil-fired power station located only 3 miles from Melbourne, Australia, in the state of Victoria. The facility is owned by Ecogen Energy, a government owned, corporatized entity. Market forces have moved Newport from an intermediate load to an infrequently operated peak load station. Click here to read full article...
National Power's Advanced Plant Management System Integrates Commercial and Process Control Interests When the United Kingdom privatized its power industry in 1990, national power PLC became one of several energy suppliers to its main customer, the National Grid Co. In the new competitive marketplace, the company saw the need to change how it viewed its extensive power plant operations. Click here to read full article...
MPS Modern Power Systems Radical changes in the electricity market have led to increasing pressure on plant operators to optimise station efficiency. Advanced control technology can help to maximise production efficiency, provide information for competitive bidding and to adhere to emissions regulations. Click here to read full article...
Moore's QUADLOG Safety PLC Provides Didcot Power Plant Safe and Cost Effective Control of Multi Fuel Burners National Power’s Didcot power plant conversion to
gas and coal-fired burners included the implementation
of QUADLOG for safe and cost-effective gas
firing control and burner management systems. Click here to read full article...
Tractebel's San Gabriel, Calif., Facility Undergoes Dramatic Transformation in Less Than Two Days 21st Century System Controls Heat for the Business and Homes of Fairbanks
The first facility in Alaska to utilize PlantWeb ® field-based architecture goes online, on time, and on budget. Click here to read full article...
Emerson's Subsidiary Helps Power Plants Upgrade Their Systems for Increased Efficiency and Less Interim Downtime With reliable power a major concern in California and a growing number of other states, power plants are under pressure to modernize their operations for greater efficiency and output, while at the same time minimizing their generation downtime. Thanks to newly developed "automated migration tools" from Westinghouse Process Control, Inc., a subsidiary of Emerson (NYSE: EMR), power plants can now modernize their process control systems without the lengthy outage period usually necessary for a technology upgrade. Click here to read full article...
Total Pipeline Automation Today's gas pipelines demand an evolution to the SCADA concept: the Wide Area
Automation System. This system encompasses all the automation and networking
requirements of today's gas pipelines:
- Gas Control, Electronic Custody Transfer, M&R Station Automation, Compressor Engine Automation, Compressor Station, Automation, On-line Engine Analysis, Leak Detection, Pipeline-wide Process Control...
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Control of Natural Gas Fueling Stations Natural gas as a fuel for vehicles has made the transition from experimental to
practical day-to-day use. Driven by clean air legislation, interest in natural gas
accelerated during the oil price hike during the summer of 1990. Now, natural gas
has emerged as a true alternative to gasoline as a vehicle fuel. Click here to read full article...
Gas SCADA - El Paso Energy Company In 1994, El Paso Field Services embarked on a well site project that would fully
exploit the latest electronic measurement and SCADA technology. This is a large-scale
project, which applies to 6000 well sites. Unusual even in the post-636 era, the project
includes major goals for both measurement and operations. Click here to read full article...
CNG Transmission Corp. Bristol Babcock is the leading supplier of digital control systems for gas compressor
automation. The system engineered and installed by CNG transmission is a typical
example of numerous Bristol systems in operation throughout the world. Click here to read full article...
Louisiana Refinery Retrofitted Entirely with Fieldbus The Calcasieu refinery at Lake Charles, LA., recently replaced its pneumatic control system with a Foundation fieldbus system that uses the PlantWeb open field-based architecture. Click here to read full article...
APACS+ Reduces Nitrogen Plant's Cost via Remote Control Solution To significantly
reduce staffing
and multiple plant
maintenance costs,
the Petrocarbon
Technology Group
of Costain Oil
Gas & Process Ltd. implemented Moore’s APACS+ System for real-time,
remote control technology. Click here to read full article...
AEC - Express Pipeline SCADA Project Alberta Energy Company Ltd. (AEC) is the owner and operator of the new Express Pipeline, which delivers crude oil from Hardisty, Alberta, to Casper, Wyoming. The 785 mile long pipeline is 24 inches in diameter and has a capacity of 172,000 barrels per day. Click here to read full article...
NOVA Chemicals - J2000 Project NOVA Chemicals Corporation (NCX) operates the largest ethylene/polyethylene chemical complex in the world. As part of their "J2000" suite of projects, NOVA added three new plants to the Joffre, Alberta, Canada, site. Click here to read full article...
Norwegian Fish Processing Facility Gets Automated MARITEX, A SUBSIDIARY OF THE Danish company
Aarhus Olie AS, implemented PlantWeb® fieldbased
architecture from Fisher-Rosemount to automate a fish processing facility in Sortland,
Vesteralen, Norway. Maritex selected PlantWeb
architecture for the control of a new process,
including an evaporator. Click here to read full article...
Malt Whisky Process Control System United Distillers has recently automated a large part of the Dalwhinnie distillery in Scotland. Alex Binnie of control system makers Moore Products reports. Click here to read full article...
PIMS Rollout and Upgrade Provided necessary FIX 6.0 application programming and associated PLC-5 programming to integrate plant floor controls with corporate WAN system architecture. Coordinated programming efforts with Sybase database programmers. Click here to read full article...
Brewery Modernization Expansion This project required the programming of the operator interface package used by the customer in the packaging plant. Factory Link is used for this area of production and is their standard operating system. The operator interface, or GUI (Graphics User Interface), programming included developing screens to give an overview of an entire packaging line down to the layout of the conveyors and the instrumentation on them. Click here to read full article...
Bottle Line Control System Upgrade Replaced all existing Allen-Bradley PLC2s with PLC5/40Es, networked via Ethernet. Added five operator workstations running Intellution FIX 6.0. Added several variable speed drives and modified conveying systems to provide operational flexibility by allowing multiple packaging lines to share multiple depalletizers and palletizers. Click here to read full article...
Black Malt Extraction This was a continuous evaporation process which concentrated wort for black malt beer into a liquor for distribution to other breweries. This saved shipping costs and the liquor was diluted into a wort at each destination brewery. The existing controls were modified to accommodate the new grain with process changes throughout the brewhouse. Click here to read full article...
Beer Release Packaging Modernization The modernization involved four Bottle Lines, three Can lines and one Keg Line. Emerson Process Management provided the necessary FIX 6.0 application programming and associated PLC-5 programming to allow Filler operators to select brands, change brands, query availability of releasable brands. Click here to read full article...
Beer Release to Finished Beer Line Modification Approximately six existing process PLCs and two clean in place (CIP) tenor drums were modified on line. Two existing Allen Bradley Advisor CRTs also were modified to allow graphic Operator selection of the new bottle line from about 30 sources. New Tuchenhagen valves were added to the beer release header to allow this selection and to provide for the new sections of pipe to be cleaned in place. The new process was integrated into the existing finishing cellar operation without interruption of production. Click here to read full article...
Boiler Automation The automation of five packaged boilers at a major U.S. brewery has quickened response to brew and mash kettle steam loads, boosted boiler reliability, helped bring the boilers back to their nameplate ratings, and no doubt raised thermal efficiency. The upgrade extends the life of the boilers and helps assure maximum brewery output. The automation replaced 1970s era pneumatic and relay logic controls. Click here to read full article...
Specialty Equipment Design Emerson Process Management provided an extensive redesign of equipment that deposited jelly onto pastry squares, in an on-line process that created 1000 pastries per minute, eleven at a time. Click here to read full article...
Electrical Power Expansion Emerson Process Management dispatched an Electrical Power Engineer to the facility to review the existing single line drawings and to bring them up-to-date. This confirmed the client's concern that additional power would be required to support the new production lines. During the plant visit the engineer suggested a conceptual design that would resolve the problem. The design incorporated a new 480V substation. It also included a new, double - ended switchgear lines - up in an outdoor powerhouse, to be served by two, 2500 KVA transformers supplied by the local utility company. Click here to read full article...
Moore QUADLOG BMS Gives Foster Wheeler Flexibility Without Compromising safety Foster Wheeler Development Corporation’s
Combustion and Environmental Test Facility
(CETF) in Dansville, New York, USA, was
originally built in 1984 to find cleaner ways to
burn fossil fuels as air quality regulations become
more stringent. Click here to read full article...
Automating Intelligence Vopak Terminals’ Galena Park, Texas, facility
features a million barrel terminal for its
liquid bulk storage and chemical distributing
operation. Vopak decided to move
toward automated instrument readings and control.
PlantWeb field-based architecture, intelligent level
gauges and transmitters from Emerson Process
Management (formerly known as Fisher-Rosemount)
provide accurate and reliable readings, with selfmonitoring
and frequent calibration. Click here to read full article...
Controlling Processes via Fieldbus Aproprietary digital bus and smart
instruments can limit chemical
process design flexibility and
inflate expansion, modification and lifecycle
costs. FOUNDATION fieldbus provides
a wide selection of optimum or
best-in-class field devices. Fieldbus also
offers more features than do “smart”
instruments and the digital communications
of older distributed control system
(DCS) technologies. Click here to read full article...
World-Scale Styrene Plant Uses Moore's QUADLOG for Reactor Shutdown Systems Sterling Chemicals operates a world-scale
styrene plant in Texas City, Texas. Styrene
is an intermediate product used in the manufacture
of various polymers and rubbers. In 1996-
7, the plant, which had controls dating back to
the early 1970s, went through an upgrade/modernization
of their electronic and pneumatic
control and relay-based safety systems. The
older systems used discrete switches for sensors
and shared the sensors between the control
and safety system. Click here to read full article...
Control System Speeds Polymer Production at ICI in Holland Matthew Hocken of Moore Products describes how an APACS control system was used to speed a batch of polymer manufacturing process and so improve plant utilization. The same control system also handles production scheduling. Click here to read full article...
Moore QUADLOG Reactor Shutdown System Saves Chemical Company Several Hundred Thousand Dollars Per Year Sterling Chemicals operates phthalic
anhydride reactors at their plant in Texas
City, Texas (USA). This section of the plant had
controls dating back to the early 1970s. In 1995,
it went through an upgrade/modernization of its
electronic and pneumatic control and relaybased
safety systems. The goal of upgrading the
system was to minimize the potential for nuisance
trips, help record and identify the cause
of trips, increase diagnostic capabilities, increase
control flexibility, and simplify troubleshooting
and maintenance. Click here to read full article...
Chemical Giant Seeks Data Unification with ERP In conjunction with a $25 million capital investment project to upgrade its management investment systems (MIS) around the globe, International Specialty Products Inc. (ISP) is installing the APACS+ process control system from Moore Process Automation Solutions to control batch execution, recipe management, and data unification with MIS. Click here to read full article...
High Pressure Steam & Deionized Water Solutia, Inc., a large chemical company based in St. Louis, MO, needed to quickly complete phase I of a major engineering design so that it could comply with the terms of a high pressure steam supply contract. Click here to read full article...
Increased Herbicide Production Facing strong demand for its popular herbicide product and existing production facilities at maximum capacity, a large agricultural chemical company was ready to invest $50M in a new, grassroots facility in Texas. To get it done right, on time and within budget, they turned to Emerson Process Management for help. Click here to read full article...
Ammonia Treatment When a local bass fishing club complained about a strong ammonia smell coming from the Tennessee River, the EPA stepped in and imposed limits on a large chemical company in Alabama. Facing an agency-imposed deadline Emerson Process Management personnel were hired to help this company reach compliance. Click here to read full article...
Process Control Improvements at USS/Kobe Noncontact laser Doppler velocimetry has been utilized for more than 10 years as a proven technique to measure the velocity and length of various shapes and sizes of metals products. The technique eliminates process errors caused by roll slippage incurred with contact methods. Click here to read full article...
