Plant-wide automation for crushers November 2013, Valmet Flow Control South Africa Metso delivers first class crushers and equipment for processing aggregates. A crusher for either stationary or mobile use typically comes with an intelligent controller (IC) system, giving it high availability ...
WIC helps Harmony rework slimes dams November 2013 Harmony Gold Mine recently embarked on a project to rework old slimes dams around its goldfields area after realising that improved refining methods would yield good profits. These dams are located in ...
Saving water saving money October 2013 KIT Wassertechnik of Switzerland develops environmentally friendly water utilisation systems for a wide range of applications. The company places particular importance on the use of rain and spring water ...
Internally fitted industrial fire suppression systems October 2013, Alien Systems & Technologies Until recently, the traditional method of fire detection and suppression for buildings and rooms was confined to smoke detection and flooding by a fire suppression medium. These mediums were mostly in ...
Welkom Industrial Controls October 2013 Welkom Industrial Controls (WIC) was approached by Powertech IST after an investigation had established that there was potential saving to be made by automatically controlling the three Demag air compressors ...
Control Loop: Case history 133 - Life is never dull for a control engineer. October 2013, Michael Brown Control Engineering Following from the last Case History article, number 132, about interesting loops in a chemical plant where I do a lot of optimisation, here are a few more examples of interesting loops. The basics of ...
Road traffic signal control August 2013, Allpronix Application overview
For road and highway systems the safe and efficient flow of traffic through intersections is paramount. Traffic is controlled at the intersection of roads by traffic lights and traffic ...
Emerson integrates fuel moisture sensor August 2013, Emerson Automation Solutions Integrated Ovation control system solution increases the performance of biomass fuelled power plants.
Control loop: Case history 132 - Interesting days in a chemical plant August 2013, Michael Brown Control Engineering One of the things I enjoy most in my working life is optimising base layer control loops in plants in the chemical, petro-chemical and paper industries. There are several reasons for this, but chiefly ...
New I/O modules and extended functions in the SafetyBridge system July 2013, Phoenix Contact The new SafetyBridge I/O modules from Phoenix Contact expand the network independent SafetyBridge system in terms of flexibility, functionality and application areas. The new modules include a safe input ...
EtherCAT in a tidal turbine energy application July 2013, Beckhoff Automation Scotrenewables uses integrated control solution from Beckhoff Automation to prove its revolutionary tidal generation concept.
Hybrid Automation: Reel-to-reel success on Afripack upgrade July 2013, Hybrid Automation Afripack is a progressive packaging company that supplies high-quality packaging products to the southern African and related markets. The product range includes paper sacks, shrink and stretch sleeves, ...
Afrilek Automation: A total solutions partner July 2013, PI SA (PROFIBUS & PROFINET SA) Founded in 2005 by managing director, Grant Douglas, Afrilek is based in Meadowdale, Germiston with satellite offices in Cape Town, Durban and Namibia. Douglas is supported by sales director, Pregs Naidoo, ...
Honeywell to automate systems at Finnish biomass plant June 2013 Honeywell has announced that it will provide a comprehensive automation solution for a new steam production plant in Finland. The contract, awarded by environmental management specialists Ekokem, covers ...
