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  • Schneider Electric's Integration of Invensys

    By Bill Lydon, Editor With this acquisition, Schneider Electric significantly enhanced its position to serve the process industries and now has a complete portfolio of products to serve the entire industrial and process automation industry. This article highlights a few key aspects of the integration of the two companies.
    28 January, 2014 | 4 minutes
  • Rockwell to build, control plastic waste-to-synthetic plant

    The plant in Akron, Ohio, will transform waste plastics into energy products. Control will be by a PlantPAx Process Automation System.
    22 January, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • Honeywell UOP to control two petrochemical plants in China

    Shandong Huachao Chemical will use the UOP C4 Oleflex process to produce isobutylene, while Zibo Qixiang Tengda Chemical will use the UOP Butamer process to transform normal butane to isobutane.
    21 January, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • Emerson to provide backup power systems for FLNG project

    Emerson Network Power will provide uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems for Shell’s Prelude FLNG project, the world’s first floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) project.
    16 January, 2014 | 1 minute
  • Yokogawa to control Yamal LNG Project in Russia

    Yokogawa will supply CENTUM VP integrated production control systems, ProSafe-RS safety instrumented systems, Exaquantum plant information management systems, analytical systems, analyzer shelters, and operator training systems.
    10 January, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • Yokogawa to control Reverse Osmosis Desalination Plant in Saudi Arabia

    Yokogawa will supply the control system for the SWRO-4 Desalination Plant, which is being built in Jubail, Saudi Arabia by the Power & Water Utility Company for Jubail and Yanbu (Marafiq).
    12 December, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Metso to control Electric Power Plants in Buryatia

    Electric Power Plants is modernizing and increasing capacity at its Gusinoozyorskaya thermal power plant in Gusinoozyorsk, Republic of Buryatia, in Eastern Siberia.
    09 December, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • ISA book says automation can prevent nuclear power plant disasters

    ISA publishes a book that declares that another Chernobyl- or Fukushima-like catastrophe is inevitable unless nuclear power plants across the world adopt fully automated safety systems.
    06 December, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Honeywell to Automate Largest Refinery in the Middle East

    Honeywell will provide the Integrated Control and Safety System (ICSS) for the 615,000 barrel-a-day Al Zour refinery complex to be built in southern Kuwait. Honeywell will also provide the front-end engineering design (FEED) for the system.
    04 December, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Adaptive Process Control delivers built-in, bottom line benefits

    By Robert Golightly, AspenTech Adaptive Process Control provides a set of innovative, patented techniques for automatic adjustment of the controllers in real-time and elevates maintenance to a built-in and continuous part of the management process.
    27 November, 2013 | 5 minutes
  • Harnessing Green Energy

    By Softing The San Jacinto Tizate geothermal project in Nicaragua is using Foundation Fieldbus connected to pressure and temperature transmitters and control valves to move the actual control function from the control room to the field devices.
    25 November, 2013 | 5 minutes
  • Foxboro Evo System Features Multiprocessor Controller

    By Bill Lydon, Editor Foxboro has dramatically stepped up the power of their controller with the Foxboro Evo process automation system introduction. This controller is a great example of the new breed of controllers that leverages the latest technology.
    22 November, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Yokogawa to control Chevron Phillips Petrochemicals Project

    Yokogawa will supply control systems, safety systems, remote instrument enclosures, and the analyzer shelters and analytical systems for the USGC Petrochemicals Project.
    21 November, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Honeywell to blend fuel to Reduce Bus Emissions in London

    Honeywell will provide Fusion4 technology to allow biofuels used in London buses to be blended directly at London bus depots, rather than mixing with standard diesel at refineries in Scotland.
    21 November, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Emerson to automate two coal-fired power plants in South Korea

    Emerson will install its Ovation control system at two 1,050-megawatt, ultra-supercritical, coal-fired power generating units under construction at the Taean thermal power plant in South Korea.
    13 November, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Metso to supply control systems to Turbine Services

    Metso DNA Turbine Automation system will be used on all future projects where TSL supplies turbine components and other materials.
    13 November, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Emerson to modernize thermal power plant in Poland

    Emerson will provide an Ovation expert control system, Rosemount wireless measurement and analytical equipment, AMS Suite predictive maintenance software, and CSI Monitor for turbine vibration analysis.
    12 November, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Yokogawa to control Supercritical Thermal Power Plant in India

    The Kudgi plant, which is being constructed in the Bijapur district in Karnataka state, will have a total output of 2,400 MW from three 800 MW units.
    04 November, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Yokogawa Appoints Rene Aldana Head of Canadian Business

    Rene Aldana will become the Managing Director of Yokogawa Canada.
    04 November, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Metso to automate biomass power plant in South Korea

    Metso will supply automation for the Dangjin 4 Biomass Power Plant, currently under construction in Dangjin City, about 70 km southwest of Seoul in South Korea.
    04 November, 2013 | 2 minutes
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