Honeywell has been honored with the 2008 Most Innovative Power Technology of the Year Award from Asian Power magazine. Honeywell earned the category’s Silver Award for a first-of-its-kind advanced controls project that helped China Petroleum and Chemical Corp. (Sinopec) increase electricity generation while curbing coal consumption at its Shanghai Petrochemical Company Principal Power Plant in Shanghai.
By implementing Honeywell’s Advanced Energy Solutions, a suite of advanced control software applications, Sinopec has increased the boiler efficiency by 0.5 percent, increased the operating steam temperature by 2.1 degrees Celsius and improved stability of key combustion process variables. The air pollutant emissions from the fuel and limestone consumption have been decreased to comply with environmental standards in the region. Additionally, Sinopec is expecting to cut the consumption of standard coal by more than 500 tons and coke by 1,600 tons annually.
“As the first company in the world to apply advanced control application technology to CFB units, Sinopec significantly enhanced the effectiveness and control performance of the distributed control system at the CFB boiler level and for the entire plant,” said Zhao Weijie, Chief Engineer of Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Company, China. “Even more impressive, all improvements were achieved by implementing software rather than executing a major hardware refurbishment at the plant. We have also to date achieved an estimated $1 million of savings on the supply of energy to our refinery.”
