Emerson Wins $5.8 Million Contract to Automate China's First Integrated Water/Wastewater Project.AUSTIN Austin. 1 City (1990 pop. 21,907), seat of Mower co., SE Minn., on the Cedar River, near the Iowa line; inc. 1868. The commercial and industrial center of a rich farm region, it is noted as home to the Hormel meatpacking company, whose Spam Town museum , Texas -- Emerson Process Management --PlantWeb(R) Digital Plant Architecture With Ovation(R) Control System Will Automate To turn a set of manual steps into an operation that goes by itself. See automation. New Water Treatment Plant and Reservoir Complex Serving 3 Million People Emerson Process Management, a business of Emerson (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :EMR (ElectroMagnetic Radiation) The emanation of energy from everything in the universe. Although the EMR from electrical and electronic devices is typically measured for practical, every-day situations, every object, including humans, emanates energy. ), announced today it has received a $5.8 million contract to install its PlantWeb(R) digital plant architecture in China's first integrated water/wastewater project. The project, awarded by Harbin Harbin (här`bĭn), Rus. Kharbin, city (1994 est. pop. 2,505,200), capital of Heilongjiang prov., China, on the Songhua River. It is the major trade and communications center of central Manchuria, the junction of the two most important Water Supply and Drain Group Co., will include automation of a new water treatment plant and reservoir complex serving Harbin City. China's seventh-largest city and capital of Heilongjiang Heilongjiang or Heilungkiang (both: hā`l  ng`jyäng`) [Chin.,=black dragon river (the Amur)], province (1994 est. pop. 35,570,000), c. Province, Harbin has 3 million residents and produces 940,000 tons of wastewater per day. As part of a plan to meet this ever-growing demand, the Municipal Authority of Harbin is building the new 119-million-gallons-per-day (450,000-cubic-meters-per-day) water treatment plant, a new 94-billion-gallon (356-million-cubic-meter) reservoir complex, and expanding and rehabilitating its existing water distribution network by installing 110 miles (175 km) of pipeline. At Harbin, PlantWeb with the Ovation(R) expert control system and FOUNDATION(TM) fieldbus intelligent field devices will provide continuous monitoring and control of the new plant and reservoir complex, as well as monitoring and control of 14 existing remote wastewater plants and pump stations that are part of the wastewater collection system. Besides providing superior control of processes, installation of the Ovation system will also enhance operational efficiency and flexibility by enabling operators to monitor both water and wastewater processes from a single location -- a new central control center to be located at the municipal authority's headquarters. "Emerson offered us a comprehensive and scaleable control solution that will allow us to fully and efficiently integrate and optimize optimize - optimisation our new assets, like the plant and reservoir, as well as existing plants and pump stations," said LiLi Meng, information technology supervisor, Harbin Water Supply and Drain Group Company. "In addition to delivering control and valuable operational insight throughout our expanding water system, we know the Ovation system will be able to grow with us to meet our future needs." "The enormous growth and development in China today has placed greater demands on the water and wastewater services for population centers like Harbin," said John Berra, president of Emerson Process Management. "We're pleased to be able to apply the advanced technologies of PlantWeb and Ovation to a ground-breaking project that will serve this growing community's needs now and for years into the future." About Emerson Process Management Emerson Process Management (www.emersonprocess.com), an Emerson business, is a leader in helping businesses automate their production, processing and distribution in the power, water and wastewater treatment, chemical, oil and gas, refining refining, any of various processes for separating impurities from crude or semifinished materials. It includes the finer processes of metallurgy, the fractional distillation of petroleum into its commercial products, and the purifying of cane, beet, and maple sugar , pulp and paper, food and beverage F&B is a common abbreviation in the United States and Commonwealth countries, including Hong Kong. F&B is typically the widely accepted abbreviation for "Food and Beverage," which is the sector/industry that specializes in the conceptualization, the making of, and delivery of foods. , pharmaceutical, and other industries. Emerson's Power & Water Solutions division (www.emersonprocess-powerwater.com) is a global supplier of advanced distributed process control and information systems. The Pittsburgh-based company is a recognized leader in developing plant-wide process control solutions for the power generation, water treatment and wastewater treatment industries. Power & Water Solutions plays a key role in the Emerson mission of combining superior products and technology with industry-specific engineering, consulting, project management and maintenance services. Emerson brands include PlantWeb(R), Ovation(R), SmartProcess(R), Fisher(R), Micro Motion(R), Rosemount(R), Daniel(R), DeltaV(TM) and AMS AMS - Andrew Message System (TM) Suite. About Emerson Emerson (NYSE:EMR), based in St. Louis, is a global leader in bringing technology and engineering together to provide innovative solutions to customers through its network power, process management, industrial automation, climate technologies, and appliance A stand-alone hardware device or software environment dedicated to a specific task. See hardware appliance and software appliance. and tools businesses. Sales in fiscal 2004 were $15.6 billion. For more information, visit www.GoToEmerson.com. Ovation, SureService, SmartProcess, PlantWeb, Fisher, Micro Motion, Rosemount, Daniel, DeltaV and AMS(TM) Suite are marks of Emerson Process Management. Other marks are the property of their respective owners. |
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