Emerson Wins Contract to Digitally Automate Major BP Chemical Facility in China

23-Jul-2007

Emerson Process Management has won a contract to digitally automate BP's Purified Terephthalic Acid (PTA) plant expansion in Zhuhai, China. Emerson will engineer and manage the automation project, using the company's PlantWeb digital architecture with Foundation(TM) fieldbus technology for process control and data management.

As the main instrument vendor, Emerson will be responsible for the detailed design, including the engineering design, and implementation of the new digital architecture. From Emerson's Chemical Centre of Excellence in Pudong, Shanghai, Emerson experts will plan and manage the automation portion of the project, including integrating Emerson's PlantWeb digital architecture with its advanced control, safety, and asset optimisation technologies.

Emerson's PlantWeb digital plant architecture delivers operational excellence in plants by networking smart devices throughout, enabling optimum control while continuously gathering diagnostics data that is used for asset optimisation, including predictive maintenance. Personnel use the data to correct equipment and process issues before they can interrupt production.

The company's smart SIS Safety Instrumented Systems will also be installed on an independent network, with diagnostics communication to the process systems.

Within PlantWeb architecture, Emerson's asset optimisation will centre on the company's AMS(TM) Suite predictive maintenance software, including AMS Suite: Intelligent Device Manager, Asset Portal, Machinery Manager, Optimizer, and Performance Monitor

The contract includes the engineering and configuration of approximately 3,000 device signal tags, control and safety systems, and integration of an existing control system. The open and highly integrated architecture will use OPC (OLE for Process Control) technology. On-site services include a variety of operator/user training classes, as well as commissioning and start-up assistance.

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