Latest Foxboro automation technology, Avantis enterprise asset management offering, and SimSci-Esscor simulation solutions be deployed throughout grassroots plant
FOXBORO, MASSACHUSETTS, USA – April 21, 2006 – Invensys Process Systems has been selected by Suzano Papel e Celulose of Brazil to supply Foxboro digital automation, Avantis enterprise asset management and SimSci-Esscor simulation for the Mucuri project, a major new eucalyptus pulp mill in south Bahia State. With initial pulp production capacity of one million tons per year (TPY) starting up in the second half of 2007, the Mucuri project will be one of the largest single-line pulp plants in the world. The multi-million dollar Invensys contract will cover automation for all of the major processes in the new plant – cooking and washing, fiber line, pulp drying, recovery boiler, causticizing, lime kiln, and evaporators.
The Invensys systems will also interface with the plant’s turbo generator systems. The scope of supply will include the latest generation Foxboro I/A Series systems, with control elements distributed over the Invensys high-availability one-gigabit mesh control network. More than twenty I/A Series operator workstations and three I/A Series engineering workstations will be located in several control rooms on the site. Distributed around the plant will be 26 I/A Series control processors connecting to myriad I/O devices. The I/O population will comprise 30,000 OPC, Profibus and Modbus communications points, almost 4000 HART devices, more than 4000 discrete devices, and approximately 1400 Profibus-connected motors.
The Avantis asset management solution will be used to run a maintenance management system for the HART transmitters and valve positioners. The device condition information flow between the asset management system and the intelligent field devices will employ FDT-DTM technology, Using the SimSci-Esscor Dynamic Simulation Suite, the new Suzano Bahia Sul implementation will include FSIM Plus, a high fidelity Foxboro control system virtual simulation solution based on the SIM4ME common modeling environment. In conjunction with Ideas Simulation, Inc., Invensys will deploy FSIM Plus initially for I/A Series control system checkout and for operator training at the Mucuri pulp mill site.
Invensys Process Systems Brasil will provide a range of professional services, including configuration engineering, commissioning and start-up services. The Suzano Papel e Celulose automation contract builds on Invensys Process Systems Brasil market presence and on experience with world-class pulp and paper automation projects, including other major projects in the region. Invensys has also implemented safety instrumented systems and process systems at additional manufacturing facilities owned by Suzano in Brazil.
About Suzano Papel e Celulose
Suzano Papel e Celulose is one of the largest integrated producers of paper and eucalyptus pulp in Latin America, with pulp production capacity of 1.1 million tons/year and paper production capacity of 820,000 tons/year. It offers a broad range of pulp and paper products to the Brazilian and international markets, and has leadership positions in key segments of Brazilian markets. It has four principal product lines: eucalyptus pulp; uncoated woodfree printing and writing paper; coated woodfree printing and writing paper; and paperboard.
Suzano Papel e Celulose has 50 percent controlling interest in Ripasa S.A Celulose e Papel, which produces pulp, printing and writing paper, specialty papers, paperboard and cardboards. Suzano Papel e Celulose is a unit of the Suzano Group, which is also a principal petrochemical producer in Brazil.
More information can be found at www.suzano.com.br/suzano .
About Invensys
Invensys is the world leader in industrial asset performance management. In addition to its rapidly expanding Global Solutions and Performance Management services groups, Invensys’ automation businesses includes industry-leading brands such as Foxboro, Triconex, SimSci-Esscor, Wonderware, and Avantis, whose products are installed in more than 100,000 plants across the world.
These range from small hybrid and batch plants to the world’s largest upstream projects, refineries, gas plants, petrochemicals plants, power plants, and pulp and paper mills.Invensys’ comprehensive system offerings include the advanced I/A Series process automation systems ( www.foxboro.com ), and the recently announced groundbreaking InFusion enterprise control system ( www.infusionecs.com ).
The Invensys Group ( www.invensys.com ) is headquartered in London and is listed on the London Stock Exchange, with approximately 30,000 employees working in 60 countries.