ESD system for urea fertiliser plant in Asia

HIMA Paul Hildebrandt + Co KG has supplied four Emergency Shutdown Systems for ASEAN Bintulu Fertiliser Sdn Bhd in Malaysia, one of the largest production plants for granular urea fertiliser in Asia

HIMA Paul Hildebrandt + Co KG supplied 4 Emergency Shutdown Systems (ESD) for the fertiliser plant of ASEAN Bintulu Fertilizer Sdn Bhd (ABF) in Bintulu (Malaysia), which is one of the largest production plants for granular urea fertiliser in Asia.

The safety-related systems of type H51q HRS are replacing the old relay systems in the plant.

For ABF, a member of the Petronas group of companies, this revamp represented a further step in the modernisation of its production plants.

HIMA carried out the engineering and the project management, while HIMA Malaysia was responsible for installation and commissioning.

The order value for the project amounted to approximately Euro 700k.

Under this Safeguarding System Project, 4 ESD systems were installed and commissioned with 2 systems for Ammonia Plant, 1 system in Urea and 1 system in the Boiler Plant.

Each of the systems processes approximately 500 safety I/O.

The HIMA systems communicate via Modbus with the process control system provided by Yokogawa.

The system requirement stipulated as mandatory a SIL 3-certified system to protect both operators and the environment, which is easily fulfilled by the TUV approved, maximum availability systems from the H51q family.

The system was commissioned successfully.

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