MOSCOW (MRC) -- Neste Engineering Solutions has been awarded the renewal of Borealis Porvoo Aromatics Plant platform covering Advanced Process Control System (APC) with NAPCON Controller, as per Hydrocarbonprocessing.
The delivery contains over 20 NAPCON Controller applications, which control and optimize cumene, benzene and, phenol processes of the aromatics plant.
Delivery will be made with the recently released version of the NAPCON software (version 8.4.) New solutions will be implemented on virtualized hardware with a Distributed Control System (DCS) integrated web-based user interface and with a redundancy secured OPC UA connection to DCS.
"We have previously received great results with NAPCON software. NAPCON Team continuously thrives for improving the products and genuinely listen customer feedback and implement the requests based on our actual needs ", says Petteri Timonen, Automation Engineer from Borealis.
"We are happy that our good collaboration with Borealis continues and we are able to deliver continuous added value to our customer. NAPCON solutions offer, in addition to production optimization, also great savings through improved energy efficiency", says Perttu Tuomaala, Head of NAPCON, Neste Engineering Solutions.
As MRC wrote before, in March 2018, Borealis and United Chemical Company LLP (UCC) signed a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) for the development of a world-scale polyethylene project, integrated with an ethane cracker, in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Borealis is a leading provider of innovative solutions in the fields of polyolefins, base chemicals and fertilizers. With its head office in Vienna, Austria, the company currently has around 6,600 employees and operates in over 120 countries. Borealis generated EUR 7.5 billion in sales revenue and a net profit of EUR 1,095 million in 2017.
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