Turbo machinery is a vital, but highly complex and expensive part of fertilizer plants. In ammonia and urea plants, steam turbine-driven compressors are used to compress process air fed to the secondary reformer, synthesis gas fed to the ammonia converter and CO2 fed to the urea synthesis loop. Incorrect operation and poor diagnosis of health and performance can result in significant productivity loss, in terms of both energy and throughput, and/or additional maintenance costs. Turbo-machinery needs to be operated efficiently and maintained effectively to provide optimum return on investment (ROI).
Honeywell’s Turbo Suite is a unified package of monitoring, optimization and decision support applications designed to improve the availability and performance of almost any type of turbo-machinery, regardless of the manufacturer. It uses rigorous models of steam turbines, compressors and pumps to compare actual performance to expected performance, and to pinpoint the source(s) of performance degradation.
Turbo Suite is fully integrated with Honeywell's Asset Manager, a comprehensive package for monitoring assets—from field devices and control systems, to rotating equipment and process units. A key component of the Experion™ Process Knowledge System (PKS) unified architecture, this integrated solution delivers increased process uptime, asset availability and user productivity. Operational field data and diagnostic data are integrated with a decision support system that quickly identifies and resolves problems by alerting appropriate expert personnel.
Visual at-a-glance displays in multiple user-defined views, such as compressor performance maps, link to Original Engineering Manufacturer (OEM) documents loading displays; symptom fault and asset status reports can be accessed on demand. In addition, web-based thin client technology allows information to be viewed from virtually anywhere.
In summary, Honeywell’s turbo-machinery and asset management solution takes full advantage of benefits provided by Turbo Suite and smart field devices to markedly improves user performance in the following manner: