Shell's Amsterdam center was looking for a system for the control of two pilot plants which are used for the research of poly-ether polyols. The two pilot plants were controlled by single loop controllers, a small PLC, and a paper recorder for data collection. Shell's requirements for the new control system were ease of configuration, reliability, ethernet based communication, Universal Analog Inputs and on-line programming capabilities. The HC900 controller met these requirements at a competitive price.

Due to the experience Shell Research has with more than 50 installed Honeywell Series 9000 systems, the HC900 system in combination with PlantScape Vista was selected for the control of the two pilot plants. Two HC900 controllers are connected to a PlantScape Vista PC acting as the MMI. The PlantScape Vista PC is connected to an existing Uniformance PHD system for long-term data storage and research of the collected data.

Only two days of operator training were required to understand the HC900 fundamentals. Shell is satisfied with the flexibility and ease of configuration of the HC900. Due to its loop control and logic control functionality in a common platform the HC900 is an excellent solution for the type of applications found in the R&D environment.

Oil India Ltd. of Duliajan, India, awarded an order of 5 H₂Oil Analyzer Systems and one calibrator to Tata Honeywell. The customer evaluated three vendors and chose the H₂Oil solution based on the overall value of the Honeywell solution.

Oil India is an integrated upstream petroleum company with all the infrastructure facilities for exploration for hydrocarbons, production of crude oil and natural gas, and also transportation of crude oil to refineries.

The system is used in Oil India's oil collection stations to measure water content from the emulsion treater/crude oil dispatch pump outlet.

The H₂Oil Analyzer System, consisting of an in-line flanged sensor module, a remote analyzer that serves as the Human Machine Interface and a calibration unit, is an accurate, cost-effective, reliable water measurement solution for all petroleum recovery operations.

The Honeywell H₂Oil Analyzer is being used extensively at the on-shore and off-shore Oil and Gas Industry, with customers like Caltex in Indonesia and Syncrude in Canada.

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One of the largest Steel Corporations in China, Shanghai Baoshan Steel, has awarded an order for a large number of paperless recorders to Honeywell.

The customer wanted a simplified solution to manage their new combustion control system for producing steel vessels. Instead of approaching the problem with loop controllers, programmer, a PLC and a traditional paper recorder Honeywell demonstrated how the combustion control system could be controlled and monitored with newer-technology, low-maintenance paperless recorders.

Shanghai selected the Honeywell VRX180 recorder based on its versatility: it handles set point programming, multi-loop/logic control, communications, flow totalization, math calculations and more. According to Shanghai Baoshan Steel, "It was the whole Honeywell package: its people, its products and the ease of programming of the VRX180 that influenced our selection."

Chrysler Kokomo is rated as the largest heat treat facility in North America. The plant spends well in excess of $1 million a year on natural gas. The Heat Treat Manager is responsible to ensure that the furnaces are running efficiently and that the bills they are getting from the gas supplier are correct. Chrysler requested Honeywell to help identify a control solution to accomplish his task.

Honeywell's offering included the ST924 DP transmitter, an orifice plate, three-valve manifold and a V5 Multitrend paperless recorder. Honeywell was able to show ease of calibration and installation with the three valve manifold and less overall installed cost. The heat treat manager also learned how he could log in from home and pull up data from the recorder at a moments notice and to have data available to present at his management meetings.

Another advantage of the paperless recorder is the ability to use the data in an exported excel spread sheet and the ability to compare gas flow from multiple furnaces by overlapping the data.

Chrysler selected this solution for overall installed cost savings and the ability to analyze their gas usage and furnace efficiency levels. This solution will be used by the Heat Treat Manager to justify his numbers and demonstrate possible fuel savings.