Find below application notes specified to the range Process Automation.

Fieldbus in Basic Research.

Fibre optic FIP field bus in gravitational wave antenna
One of the most demanding tasks in basic research is the detection of gravitational waves predicted by Albert Einstein. The detection of those waves is extremely difficult, because their interaction with masses is very weak. Unfortunately those gravitational wave antennas must be extended over several kilometres. A major project in Europe is named VIRGO. It is financed jointly by the French CNRS and the Italian INFN. A plurality of research institutes contribute components to the detector situated in Cascina near Pisa in Italy, inaugurated Mai 2007. The University ofs Automation Paris' Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire worked on the ultra high vacuum system, where the large gate valves etc. are operated via FIP I/O networks using fibre optic communication made by Hirschmann.

Drinking Water Production in Toulouse.

Fiberoptic FIP fieldbus in purification plant.
Toulouse is running two water treatment plants, capable of purifying 250 000 m³ per day and transporting it via a 1320 km long network to the local industry and the town's citizens. An average inhabitant of Toulouse consumes 280 liters per day, increasing 8% annually. Maintaining the water quality is a crucial task that must be controlled and monitored by state of the art automation systems. The extended area of the plant makes fiber optic transmission paramount, resulting in Hirschmann providing fiber optic repeaters to the installed FIP I/O control networks in the plants of Clairfont and Pech-David.

Fiber Optic Fieldbus systems in oil production.

Recently developed oil fields in the United Arab Emirates networked with highly available fiber optic field buses.
Production has recently started at two new oilfields 50km southwest of Abu Dhabi City, Rumaitha in the countries interior and Al Dabb’iya on the coast. The daily production capacity of the fields is about 100,000 barrels. The facilities for producing, storing and metering the crude oil have been in operation since late 2005. Operating safety is paramount here, so the process control system has been designed with full redundancy, and data is transmitted between the controllers and the remote I/O stations via fail-safe, redundant optical fibers. The danger of explosion that is inherent in such facilities presents a particular challenge. This challenge must be met with ATEX approved devices that are also capable of withstanding high ambient temperatures.

ETHERNET for the wood pulp world leader.

The newest ETHERNET automation technology was implemented in the new pulp mill of the Arauco group in Nueva Aldea.
Arauco is a group of industrial forestry and commercial companies owned by the Chilean corporation Celulosa Arauco y Constitución S.A. It is one of Latin America’s largest forestry enterprises in terms of plantation area and yields, the production of market Kraft wood pulp, sawn timber and wood panels. The company owns six wood pulp mills, five in Chile (two initiated production in 2004 and 2006) and one in Argentina. Its overall production capacity will be 3.15 million metric tons per year in 2007 (once Nueva Aldea reaches full production capacity), thus becoming the wood pulp world leader producer.

ETHERNET in the food industry: Bonduelle.

The Bonduelle site at Renescure is made up of 1100 people at peak times, producing 130,000 t of cans of food per year with an additional 38,000 t of frozen goods and 30,000 t of jars and cartons.
In order to optimize the process from both a productivity and an energy consumption point of view, Bonduelle has introduced an ETHERNET production network whose aim it is to gather as much operational data as possible. As an additional bonus, this gives the Renescure factory very precise traceability of all of its products.

Field bus network on deep sea oil exploration platform.

Oil production not only takes place on land and in shallow coastal waters but also on the high seas.

The drilling platforms must keep their position accurate to a few metres with engine power so that the boring rods don't break. The highest demands are placed on the operational reliability of the dynamic position control because should the platform drift off there is the danger of great environmental damage and downtime. Converteam has designed a control system for the Transocean Sedco Forex platforms that meet the highest safety demands. As well as other safety precautions the control components are therefore designed with multiple redundancy and networked with fail safe fiber optic cables.

ETHERNET network update in a cement plant.

Buzzi Unicem SpA uses the new MICE technology.
With more than 40 million tons/year of cement production capacity, 43 cement plants in Europe and America and about 11,800 employees worldwide, the Italian company Buzzi Unicem SpA is one of the industry leaders in the manufacturing of cement, concretes and aggregates across the world. In order to upgrade an existing automation network based on Hirschmann's ASGE family at the Vernasca (Piacenza, Italy) plant, working perfectly for 14 years, Buzzi Unicem chose the new MICE technology as a seamless and cost effective solution.

World's largest coking plant produces with Profibus and Ethernet.

Schwelgern near Düsseldorf is the home of the most modern coking plant in the world.
Here, the Schwelgern GmbH coking company belonging to the ThyssenKrupp Steel AG produces an annual 2.5 million tons of coke from coal for the neighboring large blast furnaces. The transformation takes place in a total of 140 of the world's largest coke furnaces with a capacity of almost 80 tons of coal each. In addition to coke, gas, tar and other carbon materials are also produced from the coal. ABB is responsible for the automation and uses Hirschmann field bus and Ethernet components for the automation.

Water supply in Abu Dhabi modernized with optical Profibus.

The transport of freshwater from the sea water desalination system is supported by modern Profibus technology.
The United Arab Emirates have a demand for freshwater which is growing by 10% every year. An enormous challenge in the desert of the Arabian peninsula which can only be met with the building of sea water desalination systems on the Persian Gulf. The world's largest system is located in Shuweihat. In order to transport the 400 million liters of water produced per day to Abu Dhabi, 250 km away, a new pipeline was built by an international consortium under contract to the Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority.

Angers Water Treatment System: The largest ultra filtration system in Europe

Ultra filtration is the way of the future. This procedure, complex from the industrial point of view, requires working in real time.
No chemical reaction substance is used for maintenance. This method makes it possible to produce very pure water without an unpleasant taste or bad odor. Hirschmann is positioned for large-scale implementation of this type and in this context provides Ethernet components for the city of Ile de Bourg, the water treatment system for the city, and for greater Angers, which means for 260,000 inhabitants. DEGREMONT was commissioned with the realization of this system with its CRISTAL method, and JURET has established the power network, the data network, as well as the security technology for buildings.

Automation Technology in the waste Incineration Plant in Hamm

Redundant automation technology in the waste incineration plant in Hamm
Faults and failures would have serious consequences in many plants in the process industry. Fail safety can only be guaranteed when important components such as the control system are redundant. The back-up controller is kept on standby and is supplied with the latest process data via a tracking cable. It can then take over the present system’s tasks without delay when it fails. At the waste incineration plant in Hamm, the redundant control technology from Mitsubishi is supported by Ethernet Switches. The design was executed by KH-Automation Projects.

Pump Stations for Pipeline networked with Profibus

There is constant pressure in the pipelines of Kazakhstan, thanks to the profibus rings in the pump stations.
The central Asian country of Kazakhstan is the ninth-largest country in the world. It possesses enormous crude oil and natural gas supplies. Nearly 160 oil and gas deposits have been discovered so far. Thus Kazakhstan is one of the most important countries for the future world energy market. Foreign investment today are creating a booming crude oil industry that is the driving force for the economic growth of the country. Without a sea port, export is only possible using pipelines. The national oil transport company KazTransOil modernized its 6000 km long pipeline network with the most modern control technology. The communication technology does not only increase the flow rate and the reliability, but it also detects and localizes leaks from extensive networks due to the integrated monitoring technology. Environmental damage can be avoided in this way, or at least quickly contained.

Natural Gas Distribution Network in Brasil

The Northwest Region of São Paulo State, in the South of Brasil, is recognized as a leader in agricultural and related industries. In addition to orange juice production, this region has been also a worldwide leader in the production of sugar and alcohol. The additional energy demand is met through Thermoelectric Power Plants which stimulate demand for natural gas. A 575 km pipeline links this region with the main Bolivia-Brasil Gas Pipeline. Gas network management is realized by a High Speed Industrial Backbone.

Modern automatics solutions in mining

The "Belchatów" Brown Coal Mine (KWB) runs an open cast mining of brown coal field located in the central region of Poland. The KWB has an annual production capacity of 38,5 million tons of brown coal. The mine was built by applying many original and innovative technical solutions and now is reckoned as one of the most modern and biggest open cast mines in Europe and worldwide. In 2002 a new deposit "Pole Szczerców" mining has begun. The fiber optic technology and RS2 switches by Hirschmann are used there to connect automatic and security systems.

ETHERNET in the food industry - Company ETO Nahrungsmittel GmbH

Modernization of process control
ETO Nahrungsmittel GmbH based in Ettlingen, Germany, is a leading high-quality, high-volume food manufacturer. In the hostile industrial environment, demands in terms of network availability and security are very high. State-ofthe- art switch technology with redundant fiber-optic links meets all process control requirements in food production.

ETHERNET an PROFIBUS in the potassium mine

Kali + Salz extracts a natural product: mineral salt
It was more than 200 million years ago that the potassium deposits in Germany were formed. Today these deposits, lying deep under the surface, provide us with an important natural product: mineral salt. From this product, for example, mineral fertilizers for agriculture or raw materials for the chemical industry are produced. Kali and Salz GmbH extracts the raw mineral salt that reaches us daily in refined form in Hesse, Thuringia, Saxony-Anhalt and Lower Saxony.

ETHERNET at BP Chemicals Baglan Bay site

The Baglan Bay site (South Wales) has undergone major redevelopment of several chemicals manufacturing units. The existing boiler plant owned and operated by BP Chemicals has been replaced by one of the world's most advanced power generation facilities, to provide power for the new Baglan Bay Energy park where several new factory units have been under construction.

ETHERNET in the food industry Meggle Group

The Meggle brand stands for the pleasure of eating, convenience and a modern eating culture. To safeguard the manufacturing processes in the raw milk plant, butter plant and power plant areas, a redundant network is used, consisting of four MACH 3000 backbone switches as well as Hirschmann’s Rail Family. Even with so much technology, the butter nevertheless remains a purely natural product.

Fast-ETHERNET in the Wind Power Plant

Data and voice transmission via the same network ETHERNET, long established in the IT sector, can also prove advantageous in industrial usage, for example, in the networking of wind power generators. The demands placed on the ETHERNET in this case are similar to those in many branches of automation and manufacturing. Hierarchical levels make new, object-oriented structures possible. The data throughput rises, installation and maintenance are easier to perform..

HCB Holderbank Cement and Concrete

HCB "Holderbank" Cement und Beton (cement and concrete) is a company in the building materials industry. Among its core competencies are the cement manufacturing, gravel quarrying, and concrete manufacturing. HCB is a subsidiary of the worldwide operating building materials group "Holderbank" with a workforce of approx. 1,600 employees in Switzerland as well as in neighboring countries. 700,000 tons of cement are produced annually in the cement plant in Siggenthal (Switzerland).

Ethernet in waste water - treatment plants

Ethernet in two waste water purification plants (ARA). Open, non-proprietary, and universal systems are becoming increasingly important in industrial automation engineering. The universal feature refers to the networking, the process control engineering with PLC programming and the service provider responsible for the construction of the plant. This makes it easier to construct and operate the plant at a higher level. The first construction phase involved networking ARA Bielefeld with Profibus FMS and, in the current phase, with Ethernet. Standard industrial components are being used.

Ethernet in the Brewery Industry

Israel Beer Breweries Ltd (Carlsberg Israel): one of the largest beer producer in Israel.
At the beginning of 1992 Carlsberg entered the Israeli market. Carlsberg Israel is now one of the largest beer producer in the country, and currently produces Carlsberg, Tuborg, and Malty. It also imports Guinness, Weihenstephan, Baltika and Kilkenney. Using the best European know-how and expertise, a team of Israeli engineers and experts from Carlsberg International designed and built a modern brewery with state-of-the-art technology and equipment. The installation includes computerized automatic production lines and control systems.

Constant flow thanks to redundant Ethernet rings

KazTransOil’s (KTO) uses Ethernet technology in modernization projects for the pipeline system in Kasachstan.
Its crude oil and natural gas reserves make Kasachstan an important country for the global energy markets. A quick look at a map and it becomes clear that lack of access to the sea makes pipeline systems essential for the transportation of crude oil and natural gases. KTO, the state oil transportation association in Kasachstan, equips its pipeline network (approx. 6000 km) with modern automation equipment and technology.