Emerson Process Management s PlantWeb digital plant architecture incorporating WirelessHART, Wi-Fi and FOUNDATION fieldbus technology is being used to automate a pilot ethanol processing plant built by Chematur Engineering AB. The plant, located at Karlskoga (250km from Stockholm) in Sweden, is used to demonstrate the company s unique Biostil production process, and enable its customers to trial the latest process automation technologies for their specific raw materials.
The Biostil process enables ethanol to be produced from almost any raw material including wheat, sugar-beets, rice etc. The pilot plant, consisting of a raw material mill, liquefaction department, fermentation section and distillation column, is a smaller version of the real ethanol processing plants designed and installed by Chematur Engineering worldwide. Because the layout and function of the pilot plant will be modified over time, as improvements in the Biostil process take place, it was essential that the network architecture be very flexible.
We aimed to show that Chematur Engineering is at the forefront of process plant design by implementing the most advanced process automation technology available, explained Johan Selinder, Manager, Electrical & Control Design, Chematur Engineering AB. At the same time we needed a very flexible network architecture that is easy to modify, develop and expand.
The pilot plant, which covers an area of roughly 50 square meters, features the very latest automation technology from Emerson including its DeltaV digital automation system, open standard WirelessHART products as part of Smart Wireless solutions for field instrumentation, Smart Wireless solutions for plant-wide operations based on Wi-Fi networking, and a broad range of FOUNDATION fieldbus intelligent devices. The DeltaV system enables the entire plant to be controlled from a single operator station using advanced networking functions to place process data in the hands of the operator.
The Biostil process enables ethanol to be produced from almost any raw material including wheat, sugar-beets, rice etc. The pilot plant, consisting of a raw material mill, liquefaction department, fermentation section and distillation column, is a smaller version of the real ethanol processing plants designed and installed by Chematur Engineering worldwide. Because the layout and function of the pilot plant will be modified over time, as improvements in the Biostil process take place, it was essential that the network architecture be very flexible.
We aimed to show that Chematur Engineering is at the forefront of process plant design by implementing the most advanced process automation technology available, explained Johan Selinder, Manager, Electrical & Control Design, Chematur Engineering AB. At the same time we needed a very flexible network architecture that is easy to modify, develop and expand.
The pilot plant, which covers an area of roughly 50 square meters, features the very latest automation technology from Emerson including its DeltaV digital automation system, open standard WirelessHART products as part of Smart Wireless solutions for field instrumentation, Smart Wireless solutions for plant-wide operations based on Wi-Fi networking, and a broad range of FOUNDATION fieldbus intelligent devices. The DeltaV system enables the entire plant to be controlled from a single operator station using advanced networking functions to place process data in the hands of the operator.
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