Dynea at Lillestrøm standardizes on DeltaV
The Norwegian company Dynea has realized repeated business advantages by employing technologies of Emerson Process Management. Effective automation and control in three projects has led to recent investment in a fourth DeltaVTM digital automation system at their Lillestrøm plant. The track record of success is enabling Dynea to also move toward advantages of standardizing on the Emerson DeltaV technology.
Dynea, formerly known as Dyno before merging with Neste Chemicals Oy, employs 3300 employees in 26 countries. They are one of the world's largest suppliers of oil-based chemicals, impregnated paper, glue and binding materials to the woodworking industries.
Knut Kjelskau
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Knut Kjelskau, a Dynea Automation Engineer based at Lillestrøm, said, "the first ever DeltaV digital automation system, that was used within Dynea, was in the Polymer Systems plant which produces monodisphere polymer particles for industrial use. The system proved to be extremely effective so we invested in a second system to control a hardening process which consists of 3 reactors with associated storage tanks. Again the results were positive and so a third system was installed in our biological cleaning plant."
The fourth DeltaV system has been installed at the Dynea plant for powder-based adhesives. Øistein Granum, the shift leader, commented, "we want to utilise the Norwegian plant more and are hence transferring production from abroad to Norway so one of our requirements was to double production capacity. This transfer will involve investing in a new control system. We see many possibilities in using DeltaV systems, especially when wanting to communicate with other software applications to produce spreadsheets, reports and databases."
Knut Kjelskau comments on the possibility of using a fifth DeltaV system, "we currently have installed an RS3 system in the KH-plant, where they are producing adhesives for wood and oil based chemicals in several batch reactors. The KH-plant might have to increase the degree of automation on the export to storage tanks and for this reason the control system must be expanded. Here we see the possibility to gradually start using an increasing part of DeltaV systems, as it can be used together with the existing installation of RS3. Thereby we achieve a soft transition to the latest generation control systems, with all the technological possibilities these offer. In the long run we wish to use as few control systems as possible and that is one of the reasons we go for DeltaV digital automation systems."
"Dynea is also considering using DeltaV systems in their upgrade of resin and formaldehyde plants in North America and Canada," explains project engineer John Sollien.
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