Emerson Supplies DCS to Chemical Training Facility

Emerson Process Management announces that PlantWeb digital plant architecture has been installed at the CATCH (Centre for the Assessment of Technical Competence) training center for the chemical industry in Stallingborough, near Grimsby, North Lincolnshire. Emerson supplied products, software and services and was involved with the engineering, design and installation of the plant architecture. This includes the DeltaV digital automation system and AMS Suite Intelligent Device Manager, together with Fisher control valves and FIELDVUE digital valve controllers, Rosemount level, flow, pressure, and temperature transmitters and Micro Motion Coriolis mass flowmeters.

Originally designed as a conventional plant utilizing HART communications technology, the challenging timescale and the projected savings in cabling costs led to the adoption of FOUNDATION fieldbus technology. As the project evolved, extra instruments were added and these changes, together with any future expansion plans, could be readily accommodated using the existing cabling. Had the plant retained the original architecture it would have been necessary to excavate a roadway to lay additional cabling, extending the original project timescale. With customer training sessions already arranged, any delay would have created serious problems for CATCH. By adopting FOUNDATION fieldbus communications the plant was ready for its first scheduled training sessions.

“CATCH provides professional facilities although it is not itself a training organization,” said Clive Rounce, General Manager at CATCH. “Our brief is to provide and maintain a realistic and safe training facility for our partner companies. When the project was at the design stage, we approached our partners for input on the type of automation system to be used. They wanted a system that would provide the best training platform based on what they actually have installed on site, and their first choice was Emerson’s DeltaV system as the state of the art front end system and as a key component in an overall PlantWeb architecture.”

“We are delighted to be involved with the CATCH project which sets a new standard for training facilities in our industry,” said Travis Hesketh, Director of PlantWeb for Europe, Emerson Process Management. “By basing its training facility on our PlantWeb digital architecture and DeltaV system, CATCH offers its partners a state of the art facility that uses the architecture of choice for the process industry.”