Project 4
Project type: Prepolymerization (PP) plant, Germany
ICSS emulation: Emulated – Foxboro IA®
Model fidelity: High fidelity – Honeywell OTISS®
This project was a greenfield PP plant in Germany. The main reason for using the OTS was to train the operator and do some process engineering studies. The contractor could not wait until the ICSS was completed to be used in the OTS, so the ICSS emulation was the way to go. All control and safety logic was built into the simulator using Honeywell's emulation tools from interlock, control, and safety documentation.
The delivery needed to be on a mobile system (on laptops) as well as on desktops in an office in Finland. The mobile system was to be flown to Germany and other places around the world to train operators.
In this case, an ICSS emulation worked nicely but needed full cooperation between the contractor and the supplier to achieve a good result. The final delivery was very successful...