Advanced Process Control for Batch Digesters in the Pulp Industry which main goal is to reduce kappa variability, increase production if possible, stabilize steam header disturbances.

In Batch digesters, repeatability of cooking conditions are essential for a good foundation to even quality pulp and higher production. Due to the nature of the batch cooking process, the automatic control of cooking sequences has essential meaning in controlling cooking.

It facilitates the work of operators, makes it possible to maximize production, and decreases quality changes. Also, it gives a tool for production people to optimize their production.

Advanced Process Control for Bleaching Plants in the Pulp Industry that uses model-based predictive, adaptive control to stabilize and optimize targets such as intermediate Kappa and Final Brightness, in terms of Throughput, Quality, and Cost.

Inline sensors will give Bleaching APC advanced notice of disturbances and allow the system to minimize their effect. It defines all targets through the Bleach Plant and manages the process.

Advanced Process Control for Continuous Digesters in the Pulp Industry with the main purpose of applying advanced process control to a continuous digester, is to produce pulp at the desired quality and quantity with minimum consumption of chips, energy, and chemicals.

Advanced Process Control for Screening Area in the Pulp Industry that includes supervisory and advisory features whose aim is to maximize throughput and minimize fiber losses. Avoiding process constraints is a key operating objective in combination with maximizing system efficiency.

Advanced Process Control for O2 Delig plants to further delignify, i.e, removing lignin, while preserving pulp quality. This stabilizes the Bleach plant, reduces chemical consumption, and improves fiber line yield.

It manages the process and adjusts the targets to keep all KPI's in a reasonable range, where it will not damage the fibers or violate any limits

Complete solution aimed at maximizing WBL solids to the evaporators, while minimizing chemical losses to the Bleach Plant. This is accomplished by calculating the optimized Dilution Factor set point.

Advanced Process Control for Evaporation Plants in the Pulp Industry.

Evaporation has traditionally been an important part of chemical fiber production. With increasing energy costs and environmental demands, there is a greater need for energy-efficient evaporators to process a variety of effluents from both chemical and mechanical pulping.

• Reduce dry solids variation by 20-40%.

• Stable and flexible production control including smooth production rate changes

• Reduce fouling and extended wash intervals Increase production by 2%-5%

Advanced Process Control for Lime Kilns in the Pulp Industry.

The Kiln APC is a control optimization system that improves product quality, reduces fuel consumption, maximizes throughput (production of reburned lime), and reduces environmental impact.

• Pollution prevention and control

• Maximize reuse of raw materials

• Minimize energy usage

• Minimize fuel usage

• Minimize operator response time

• Maximize process stability

• Maximize production uptime

• Minimize production disturbances

• Set production closer to constraints

Advanced Process Control for Recausticizing Plants in the Pulp Industry.

Recaust APC for Recausticizing Plant is a proven control system that improves white liquor quality, eliminates over-liming, reduces dead load, and thereby energy consumption.

• Increase production by 5-10%

• Reduce white liquor quality variation by 20-50%

• Minimize emissions

• Minimize environmental impact

• Maximize Maximum Sustainable Rate (MSR)

• Maximize process availability

• Maximize process stability

Advanced Process Control for soot blower management of the Recovery Boiler in the Pulp Industry.

The Soot Blowing APC manages the soot blowing based on a dynamic sequence control. It accounts for the boiler load and each zone status to manage the conventional and predictive fouling controls using its load-adaptive soot-blowing algorithm.

• Decrease energy consumption by 3-20%

• Lower residual carbonate 1-5%

• Reduce residual carbonate variation by 20-50%

• Increase production 5-10%

Advanced Process Control for Power Boilers.

The Power Boiler APC is a complete solution for supervisory combustion control. It includes advanced control modules that use a combination of monitoring and calculation functions to enable control based on the latest developments in sensor and algorithm technology.

The control application is provided with a user interface that includes interactive, densely packed graphics. The operator is provided with current information including advanced messages and alarms that let the control modules give the operators up-to-date warnings, information, and advice on boiler operation.

Advanced Process Control for Pulp Dryers in the Pulp Industry.

The Pulp Dryer APC is a proven control system that improves product quality, reduces energy consumption, maximizes yield, and increases the effective production rates of pulp dryers.

• Minimize energy usage

• Faster startup or setup/grade changes

• Maximize Maximum Sustainable Rate (MSR)

• Maximize process availability

• Maximize process stability

• Drive consistency in product manufacturing

• Minimize cost with desired quality

• Minimize quality losses

• Minimize start-up losses

• Respond to raw material variations

• Minimize water usage