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air POllutiOn cOntrOl
Plant studies support use of
wireless in capital projects
lorida-based Emerson Process can deliver a better plant.”
Sean Ottewell reports on
two new studies which
have recommended that
F
Management has unveiled JDI worked with a major EPC and end user
quantified results and other to study the project impact of wireless. They
findings of two independent real- compared engineering, construction, start-up,
wireless infrastructure world greenfield projects that recommend and overhead costs for approaches using wired
should be a key
wireless infrastructure be a key component of HART, wired bus technologies, WirelessHART,
component in all new
all new projects. and combinations of each. Wireless was used
process projects.
In one case, JDI Contracts applied Smart for non-safety, low speed control and
Wireless technology to applications in a new monitoring, amounting to about 25 per cent of
Sean Ottewell examine
process plant for a major US chemical the total points.
deux nouvelles études
manufacturer; in the other, Emerson modelled With each paradigm shift – wireless being
qui recommandent une
a hydrotreater capital project. Economics, the latest – plants realised savings and became
infrastructure sans fil
efficiency and other advantages made the case smarter through simpler engineering and
comme composant clé de for wireless with both JDI and Emerson. construction, flexible start-up, faster
tous les nouveaux projets
“Our recommendations regarding ‘best deployment and project completion, and
de transformation.
practices’ are firmly centred around procedures changing automation needs.
and technology required to meet owner For the use of Smart Wireless on 25 per cent
objectives and deliver expected project of points, overall plant engineering,
Sean Ottewell berichtet
über zwei neue Studien,
outcomes to our clients, including scope, construction and start-up savings were about
die empfehlen, dass eine
schedule, budget, and less tangible outcomes 10 per cent of considered costs as compared
Funkinfrastruktur
such as maintainability and ease of use,” with wired HART; for the bus installation,
wesentlicher Bestandteil commented Roger Hoyum, principal engineer, wireless savings were on a par with wired
aller neuen JDI Contracts. “With wireless technology, we busing. Although not quantified, other
Prozessprojekte sein
sollte.
Fig. 1. AMS Suite: Device Manager 10.0 features support for WirelessHART devices and
networks, alert monitoring capabilities, advanced diagnostics through SNAP-On applications,
and increased ease of use.
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