Haldor Topsoe, whose catalyst technology is used to process more than one-third of the world’s annual production of sulfuric acid, has chosen – for the first time and after rigorous comparison with the technologies of its usual suppliers – an ABB automation system for a desulfurization plant in Kazakhstan.
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“This is a breakthrough order for ABB and recognition of the unique benefits that Industrial IT offers,” says Mogens Aagaard of ABB Denmark.
Haldor Topsoe has long relied on automation systems from two principal suppliers, but when the strengths of ABB’s Industrial IT technology were put to them, they were quick to recognize its benefits and advantages.
Scalability and the uniquely open architecture of the Industrial IT platform were the key reasons for Haldor Topsoe’s choice.
The platform will enable Haldor Topsoe to design a catalytic process plant in which the end customer can monitor, control, optimize, maintain and influence each device and component in the plant.
Reusable
It will also give Haldor Topsoe the degree of reusability they are looking for and the capability to scale upwards from small plants of around 300 I/O points to large plants of several thousand I/O.
Haldor Topsoe’s design for the desulfurization plant is based on its leading WSA (wet gas sulfuric acid) catalyst technology, which is used to process more than one third of the world’s annual production of sulfuric acid.
The end customer, OJSC Kazzinc, is Kazakhstan’s leading mining and metallurgical company.