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May 2010 System Integration & Control Systems Design

Honeywell and BTG Instruments optimise fibre line control in pulp mills.

Honeywell is collaborating with BTG Instruments, a leading supplier of high-quality instruments for the pulp and paper industry, to help optimise fibre line control in pulp mills. By integrating Honeywell’s Profit Controller suite of advanced process control applications with BTG’s line of high-performance sensors and analysers, pulp mills can improve operations by incorporating environmental and quality aspects into their control systems. This additional information helps ensure the right amount of chemicals, energy and fibre are used throughout batch and continuous cooking, thermo mechanical pulping and bleaching processes.

Profit Controller is Honeywell’s multivariable control and optimisation software for complex and highly interactive industrial processes, such as pulping operations. The user friendly technology provides all necessary tools to design, implement and maintain multiple applications that improve process control for maximum economic benefit.

“We have already seen significant interest from both existing and new customers as a result of this collaboration because mills have struggled for many years to incorporate the right information into their control systems,” said Rick Van Fleet, global pulping APC solutions manager, Honeywell Process Solutions. “Combining Profit Controller’s optimisation qualities with the visibility provided by BTG’s products will make efficient pulp mill fibre line control a reality.”

BTG provides a wide range of instruments for pulp and paper processes such as consistency control, chemical, mechanical and recycled pulping, stock preparation and wet end process control. Through the integration with Profit Controller, BTG sensors and analysers also can fully integrate with Honeywell’s Experion Process Knowledge System and other distributed control systems to help mills save fibre, energy and chemical costs while improving production efficiency and paper quality.

As part of the collaboration, mills can streamline maintenance and sustain system operation through Honeywell’s remote monitoring service offering, as well as through BTG’s global service network.

“Our customers often ask us to provide advanced control strategies that complement our products,” said Tom Biazzo, product manager, BTG Instruments. “Mills will now be able to take full advantage of the online measurements we provide combined with Honeywell pulping APC solutions. It really is a collaborative effort that will pay off for our customers immediately.”

For more information contact Debbie Rae, Honeywell Southern Africa, +27 (0)11 695 8000, [email protected], www.honeywell.co.za

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