Problem

High operational costs

Reduced productivity

Objective

Bring down operational costs of the new bio-diesel plant.

Improve productivity of control system.

Solution

Installation of Forbes Marshall Microcon+ SX series Distributed Control System, specially developed to monitor all production and process management data of continuous chemical applications.

Specialist field instruments were installed throughout the plant for data collection.

Benefits

- Lowest operating costs with highest efficiencies

- Optimised resources of the control system

- Facilitates the implementation of time-critical tasks

- Reduction in the number of unplanned stops, including emergency shutdown

- Increased critical equipment availability

- Enhanced production effectiveness

- Increased capacity Utilisation

- Reduces production cost