Instumentation • Computing • Control
Integrate and automate for safety
With modern automation systems offering unrivalled levels of safety, reliability and efficiency, the major players are winning substantial contracts around the world. Sean Ottewell reports.
Con los sistemas de automatización modernos que ofrecen niveles sin precedentes de seguridad, fiabilidad y eficacia, las principales empresas están ganando importantes contratos en todo el mundo, informa Sean Ottewell.
Moderne Automatisierungssysteme bieten ein Höchstmaß an Sicherheit, Zuverlässigkeit und Effizienz. Dadurch können die größten Anbieter auf der ganzen Welt wichtige Verträge abschließen. Sean Ottewell berichtet.
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okogawa has been selected to supply the integrated automation and safety system for the new liquefaction trains at
Cheniere’s LNG facility in Sabine Pass, Los Angeles, which is being developed by its subsidiary Sabine Pass Liquefaction (SPL).
SPL is the first company with US
Department of Energy approval to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) to non-free trade agreement countries. Te development of liquefaction services at the Sabine Pass LNG receiving terminal in Cameron Parish, Los Angeles, will transform the terminal into a bi-directional facility capable of liquefying and exporting natural gas and importing and re-gasifying foreign- sourced LNG. “We are proud to be
Fig. 1. Invensys Operations Management has successfully completed the first phase of a main automation contractor project at the new Yaysky oil refinery in Kemerovo, Russia.
part of this groundbreaking liquefaction project in the US,” says Chet Mroz, president and ceo of Yokogawa corporation of America. “Yokogawa has a 25 per cent worldwide market share for LNG plants as well as a long-standing relationship with Cheniere Energy, beginning with the purchase of Yokogawa’s CENTUM CS 3000 control system for the original gasification facility at Sabine Pass in 2006.” Yokogawa’s CENTUM VP integrated production control system was selected for the new liquefaction facility. While CENTUM VP is classified as a distributed control system (DCS), it goes beyond a traditional DCS by offering a more intuitive human
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machine interface and a large-capacity field control station to process data faster while maintaining exceedingly high reliability. Te dual-redundant configuration of processor cards combined with pairing each processor card with two CPUs (pair and spare configuration) ensures uninterrupted operations and high availability.
SPL will also utilise the ProSafe-RS integrated safety instrumented system (SIS) from Yokogawa for the site. ProSafe- RS delivers the world’s first completely integrated SIS for DCS to simplify deployment, operation, and maintenance. Until now, two separate monitoring and operating environments were required for the DCS and SIS. ProSafe-RS eliminates
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