ADVANCED I/A SERIES TECHNOLOGY TO CONTROL ALL UNITS THROUGHOUT BAUXITE REFINING PROCESS

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ADVANCED I/A SERIES TECHNOLOGY TO CONTROL ALL UNITS THROUGHOUT BAUXITE REFINING PROCESS
10 November 2005 - Invensys plc

Invensys Process Systems has been chosen to implement I/A Series digital automation from Foxboro (www.foxboro.com) to control processes throughout the new Luoyang Xiangjiang Wanji Aluminum Ltd. alumina plant being built at Luoyang Xinan county, in the Henan province of China.

In addition, Invensys Process Systems China will provide hardware integration services for the 400,000 TPY (tons per year) grassroots bauxite refining facility, which will utilize the Bayer Process technology to make alumina, a feedstock for making aluminum metal.

Automation systems at the Luoyang Xiangjiang Wanji Ltd. plant will employ I/A Series redundant control processors at seven control nodes serving processes throughout the plant. The control nodes are for raw materials processing, solvent extraction, settling, separation, product filtration, evaporation, and baking. The control processors are connected with more than 5,200 I/O points, representing a wide variety of sensors, devices and signal interfaces.

The control nodes are interconnected with a redundant network built around a control and dispatching center equipped with 15 sets of operator workstations and seven sets of engineering and operational workstations. The centralized facility provides real time data and full graphics of the plant automation network, supporting the plant's production monitoring and optimization applications.

Luoyang Xiangjiang Wanji Aluminum Ltd. and its engineering and design firm selected Invensys, an established supplier in the Chinese aluminum industry, based on the reliability and reputation of I/A Series systems installed at multiple plant sites.

Luoyang Xiangjiang Wanji Aluminum Ltd. headquartered in the city of Louyang, Henan province, China, was recently formed through the merger of Luoyang Wanji Aluminum and the Shenzhen Xiangjiang Group. Louyang Xiangjiang Wanji Aluminum Ltd. is building the new alumina refining plant to supply feedstock for China's growing aluminum smelting industry, one of the largest in the world. The project is part of a Chinese government initiative to increase the domestically-produced supply of alumina through the consolidation and construction of larger and more efficient processing plants.

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