Huntsman Tioxide’s new USD 70-million ICON 2 plant at Greatham near Hartlepool, Teesside, will automate titanium dioxide production using PlantWeb® field-based architecture from Fisher-Rosemount, the process-management business of Emerson. Titanium dioxide is the most commonly used pigment in the world, providing whiteness and opacity for paints, plastics, paper, cosmetics and other materials. The PlantWeb automation solution for the Greatham plant will use FOUNDATION fieldbus technology to communicate process and equipment information throughout a network of microprocessor-based measurement and control devices, as well with an automation system that collects, distributes, and uses the information for process control and instrument management. The project’s approximately USD 4.4 million in instrumentation includes over 800 fieldbus-based devices from Fisher-Rosemount. These PlantWeb components include Rosemount pressure and temperature transmitters, Micro Motion Coriolis mass flow and density meters, Rosemount magnetic and vortex flowmeters, Rosemount Analytical pH and conductivity instruments, Fisher control valves with FIELDVUE® digital valve controllers, and other valves and actuators from Hytork.
