Jul 19 2007
Emerson Process Management, a business of Emerson 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™ 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 Center 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 Optimization technologies.
"We are pleased at this new opportunity to combine our technology with the solutions skill of our Chemical Center of Excellence and the engineering supervision and project management leadership in our Singapore office,” said John Berra, president, Emerson Process Management. “We are encouraged by BP’s confidence in our ability to provide system design, configuration, staging, acceptance testing, commissioning, and start-up support. We are committed to delivering a world class digital automation system at Zhuhai.”
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 Optimization, including predictive maintenance. Personnel use the data to correct equipment and process issues before they can interrupt production.
On-site services include a variety of operator/user training classes, as well as commissioning and start-up assistance.