Air Liquide, USA

Standardizing procedures increases plant output

Cliente:

Skynet

Project objectives

Sector:

Chemicals and Cosmetics

To build a system flexible enough to interface with different DCS systems without having to reconfigure each time.

Challenges

To meet these and similar conditions for when and how the data gets transferred, Worrall worked with the Air Liquide team to write a DataHub script. The DataHub scripting language, Gamma, can access the values of each point in the DataHub in real time and is fully integrated with all DataHub functionality.

Result

The completed script loads all bridge configurations and all related conditional information from a text file when the DataHub first starts up.
Future implementations of the system at other locations can use the same, standard script, with a modified text file to match the local ASU or DCS systems.

Solutions and products used

Cogent DataHub

DataHub

An engineering team at the Air Liquide ASU facility in Ingleside, Texas has recently enhanced productivity by standardizing connections between the company’s air separation units (ASU) and a variety of distributed control systems (DCS), as highlighted in an article in CONTROL magazine.