Rotork IQ and IQT intelligent electric actuators with Pakscan 2-wire digital control have been installed on a specialised area of the plant that manufactures the Airbus. The Rotork actuators are installed at Toulouse, France, where a huge new production plant has been built for the Airbus A380. The actuators control the sequence by which jet fuel, stored in six tanks, is pumped into the A380’s 310,000 litre fuel tanks to clean them and then pumped back through filters for storage and re-use. A total of 64 ATEX certified IQ and IQT actuators operate Malbranque gate valves, Cameron ball valves and Metso butterfly valves on the plant, controlled by a 120 channel Pakscan llE masterstation with hot standby. Rotork’s French sales company was awarded the Airbus order by a consortium consisting of SPIE Batignolles, Exxon and EECTA.
