Xinneng Energy Ltd. Implements Proficy Process Systems
Charlottesville, VA - GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms, a unit of GE Enterprise Solutions, recently announced that Xinneng Energy Ltd., a leading supplier of energy-chemical products and services, has implemented its new breakthrough process control system, Proficy Process Systems, released last August. Xinneng Energy is located in Jiangsu Province, Zhangjiagang, China.
Based on GE Fanuc's proven process control technologies, Proficy Process Systems is a fully integrated system that provides customers with improved quality and reliability, increased throughput, performance and efficiency, and reduced total cost of ownership.
Xinneng Energy produces DME (dimethyl ether), a chemical substance that can be produced from Methanol. The product has multiple purposes including use as an aerosol spray propellant, a cryogenic freezing agent when combined with propane, and as a clean burning alternative to liquified natural gas, diesel, and gasoline.
When Xinneng Energy set up their new plant in Zhangjiagang, the company designed the plant to be able to produce one million tons of DME per year on three production lines. Proficy Process Systems will be controlling those lines and will take over two lines that they plan to bring on line in 2008.
The foundation of Proficy Process Systems is a contemporary infrastructure offering the benefits of both traditional DCS and PLC/HMI systems, without many of the historic limitations of those approaches. GE Fanuc's multi-disciplined PACSystems controllers provide users unparalleled flexibility in their process control systems due to powerful memory and execution rates, as well as the ability to implement multiple control disciplines and programming languages in a single controller.
GE Fanuc's Proficy software is architected at the core of Proficy Process Systems, allowing customers to leverage proven technologies such as Proficy HMI/SCADA iFIX or CIMPLICITY, Batch, Historian, and Plant Applications. This industry-leading software empowers users with unprecedented visibility, analytics, and connectivity to deliver robust control, optimization and performance.
Xinneng Energy has installed Proficy Process Systems in a high availability architecture. The system configuration includes Proficy HMI/SCADA – CIMPLICITY technology option for its Operator Consoles, a system server leveraging Proficy Historian technology, and Redundant RX7i processors with reflective memory. By leveraging innovative reflective memory technologies from GE Fanuc Embedded Systems, Proficy Process Systems provides a controller redundancy solution with data synchronization rates of two gigabits per second. Additionally, the architecture includes Ethernet I/O networking with racked-based remote I/O leveraging RX3i high availability remote I/O stations.
"Proficy Process Systems easily met our requirements of an affordable price and a commitment to fully support us during system installation," said General Manager Yuantong Ma, from Xinneng Energy. "And, because this is built on proven technologies, we can count on the stability of the system as well as limited maintenance. These features spelled success for us."
SOURCE: GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms