Emerson completes digital automation project at SECCO Petrochemical complex
09 Aug '05
7 min read
Emerson installed PlantWeb digital architecture throughout the SECCO complex, which contains 47,000 control loops, 40,000 instruments, and some 13,000 intelligent devices networked in the world's largest FOUNDATION fieldbus installation. Fieldbus is an all-digital, open communications approach that connects measurement and control equipment such as sensors, actuators and controllers in processing applications.
Rather than using a centralized project organization run by an overall project contractor, SECCO — a joint venture between Innovene (formerly BP), Sinopec, and Shanghai Petrochemical Corporation (SPC) — chose an integrated project management team approach, under which each key plant in the complex had a lead project contractor. As the main automation supplier, Emerson not only engineered and implemented the automation and control systems, but also helped manage multiple international and local suppliers for each of the 10 plants in the facility.
The Emerson-SECCO team wrote the engineering functional design specifications for the facility, which ensured that identical approaches were taken to engineering in each of the 10 plants. As Main Instrument Vendor (MIV), Emerson communicated and enforced conformance and standardization in all the processes in each of the plants, a vital step to maintaining long-term operating efficiency of the integrated complex.
"With so many contractors, SECCO realized that partnering with one main automation supplier early — that is, using the MIV approach — would be critical for the success of the project," commented Danny McHugh, process control manager styrenics, SECCO.
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