The ability to stabilize and optimize the process and to gain an overview of production is an important aspect of automation in zinc, nickel and copper processes. Good process control ensures healthy and safe plant operation for both operators and equipment.
Outotec® Automation System ensures that the equipment performs appropriately, the consumption of additive agents and chemicals is reduced and variables such as impurity levels, process temperatures and element balances are fully controlled. These benefits are gained while also improving safety issues with respect to operation, the equipment, the environment and personnel in an easy and convenient manner.
Balances between departments involved in operations, from the roasting or direct leaching of different raw materials to casting, are difficult to see and control, mainly due to long delays. Outotec® Automation System provides a long- and short-term view of all of these processes. Advanced reports are developed for evaluating such things as process performance and energy efficiency. Proactive maintenance information is generated to protect pumps and gearboxes, for example.
For metallurgical plants in particular, close co-operation between process and automation design is vitally important for ensuring that the process is controlled as intended. In a project, the essential process knowledge of our process designers and specialists is delivered to automation, instrumentation and electrification designers for the benefit of the whole project.
Benefits of Outotec® Automation System:
- Process and equipment know-how are fully implemented in automation
- Automation system is pre-tested with each instrument type and with each drive and equipment before installation at plant, which reduces commissioning and start-up time
- Process is operated as designed
- Rapid production ramp-up
- Continuous and stable process
- Safety of operation, equipment and personnel
- Easy and convenient operation
- Both process control and process operation training from same organization
Outotec Proscon® Hydro automation delivery is a process automation package designed to transfer Outotec's process expertise to our clients. The complete delivery includes a process control system, process instrumentation and process electrification with all of the required services. Thus, engineering of process control goes smoothly and a reduced number of parties ensures that specifications and schedules are met and responsibilities are clear.
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Process control is based on process information gathered by automation systems, chemical analysis and human knowledge. Fast control actions are ensured with Outotec on-line analyzers, which provide real-time information. A process analyzer is chosen for each application based on the process requirements.
Outotec® Automation System offers the chance to provide a remote diagnostics service. Through a web server located in the process control room, the process control application can be viewed remotely at Outotec’s office in the same way as plant operators view it. Remote diagnostics can be done at many different levels; it can, for example, include only process monitoring. In this case, Outotec’s experts provide suggestions for process operation adjustments and maintenance and operators at the site make the changes. Through the Remote diagnostics service, Outotec's metallurgical and automation expertise is available throughout all stages of the production life cycle.
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