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News Release from: Invensys Process Systems | Subject: BASF acetylene plant
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 06 July 2006
Major automation upgrade at BASF
acetylene plant
Invensys Process Systems is currently working on an upgrade of the Foxboro automation system on the BASF acetylene plant at the company's world-scale petrochemicals complex in Ludwigshafen, Germany
Invensys Process Systems is currently working on an upgrade of the Foxboro automation system on the BASF acetylene plant at their world-scale petrochemicals complex in Ludwigshafen, Germany The acetylene plant is an integral part of this highly integrated BASF Verbund site which overall produces more than 12 million tonnes/year of products such as plastics, chemicals, fertilisers and fibres
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 23 Jun 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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A major challenge with this contract was to implement the upgrade without shutting down the acetylene plant because of the knock-on effects this would have on the rest of production at Ludwigshafen.
BASF also wanted a solution that would extend the useful life of the existing I/A Series system, installed in 1989, for at least another 15 years.
Under this contract, Invensys has already helped BASF extend the eight existing Nodebus-based I/A Series process control networks using high-speed, switched Ethernet technology.
Existing I/A Series application processors and workstations have also been upgraded with more powerful and current I/A Series workstations.
These reside on the new switched Ethernet backbone.
In addition, a large number of existing I/A Series control processors have been upgraded to higher performance, higher capacity I/A Series control processors.
Significantly, the control processors were successfully upgraded without any loss of production.
BASF is also evaluating the potential benefits of further extending the existing I/A Series networks using the advanced, "self-healing" Foxboro Mesh Network technology.
The Mesh Network combines standard fast Ethernet switches with patented diagnostic software to achieve fault tolerant reliability within a single physical network.
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