ABB India Limited to Execute India's Largest Process Automation and Safety System Projects in the Agro-Chemical Sector
July 23, 2020 at 12:30 am EDT
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ABB will deliver the largest automation projects in the Indian agro-chemical industry for Deccan Fine Chemicals, a leading chemical manufacturer in India. This mission critical automation and safety system controls over 100 reactors at the largest multi-product plant, at their SEZ facility in Tuni, Andhra Pradesh. Deccan Fine Chemicals currently has three manufacturing sites, each consisting of highly automated production plants, labs, warehousing facilities and advanced effluent treatment facilities. ABB's offered solution is designed for both high availability and high fault tolerance by positioning the primary and back-up critical controllers and servers at two separate locations. This unique design allows the system to flawlessly operate in case of immediately irreparable failure at any one geographical location. The Powerful AC800M controllers installed by ABB are capable of higher I/O handling capacity, which
enables the plant to deliver a lower carbon footprint, use lesser hardware, and yet ensure higher reliability throughout the manufacturing process. As part of the largest automation and safety installation for a chemical company, ABB platform is controlling and monitoring more than 50,000 components connected to the ABB AbilityTM 800xA distributed control system (DCS). The solution also offers ABB AbilityTM 800xA mobility solution, which empowers the operators to monitor and operate the plant right in the process area by use of industrial tablets, connected through WIFI. Also, the flexible recipe management solution (800xA batch) facilitates changing of product manufacturing process seamlessly to cater to the changing market demands.
ABB India Limited specializes in the design, manufacturing and marketing of industrial equipment. Net sales break down by family of products and services as follows:
- automation systems (62.4%): power protection system and fluids measurement instruments and control, control system of the production process (especially for oil and gas, chemical and pharmaceutical, marine, mining and paper industries) and robotics equipment;
- products and transmission systems and power distribution (37.6%): transformers, power distribution products of medium voltage (circuit breakers, switches, fuses, sensors, etc.) and high voltage (capacitors, cables, switches, etc.). Besides, the group proposes turnkey installation services of transmission systems.
At the end of 2022, the group has 25 plants located in India.