05.27.22
Key issues such as sustainability, workforce training and new product launches were highlighted this week at The Honeywell Users Group (HUG) Americas conference. The 45th edition of HUG provided users of Honeywell process control and industrial automation systems with a forum to exchange technical information and give feedback to Honeywell on its equipment and service needs.
“We are on the edge of transition,” said Ujjwal Kumar, president of Honeywell Process Solutions. “Of course, we are also in the midst of transition. When the world was locking down, many companies were seeking transformational change. It feels like the pace of change has been permanently altered.”
Kumar welcomed more than 1,200 customer attendees to HUG2022, which took place May 23-26 in Orlando. While companies’ journeys may be different, the destination looks the same, explained Kumar, citing ongoing progress on efficiency, autonomy and diversity fronts.
“The route up is going to vary, but we’ll see the same view from the summit,” he said.
Nearly every company shares the same long-term view on sustainability. Honeywell's new products help companies acheive their goals. At HUG2022, Honeywell launched an Emissions Control & Reduction Initiative designed to help customers achieve carbon neutrality in a wide range of areas. The initiative will initially focus on helping oil and gas customers with upstream, midstream and downstream operations to monitor and reduce fugitive methane emissions, which are more than 25 times as potent as carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere according to the US Environmental Protection Agency.
By combining its portfolio of fixed, portable and personal gas detection solutions with gas cloud imaging cameras, Honeywell will provide customers with early detection of fugitive methane emissions, including the precise location of any leaks and associated data analytics and trends. Equipped with this data, users can act quickly to address leaks and other identified risks to minimize production losses and maintain compliance with legislation.
The solution, which combines wireless gas detector technology with enterprise-wide data management solutions, works in tandem with existing Leak Detection & Repair (LDAR) testing methods to improve the accuracy of reporting and increase productivity by enabling users to find production losses faster.
“The Emissions Control and Reduction Initiative expands on Honeywell’s wide range of ready-now technologies that are helping our customers meet their sustainability goals,” said Kumar. “With our pedigree in gas detection and breadth of solutions, Honeywell is providing customers with a holistic and proactive approach to emission reduction that they’ve never had before.”
Also during HUG2022, Honeywell expanded its Experion Energy Control System to facilitate the global energy transition. The system offers new virtual power plant (VPP) capability that enables users to combine smaller energy resources to create virtual resources with sufficient capacity to tap into a variety of energy markets.
The new solution allows utilities, commercial and industrial site operations and power producers to pool their diverse energy assets, no matter the size, to aid with improving the usage while maximizing revenue and minimizing costs.
Through the remote management functionality within the Experion Control System, users have autonomous control to help them choose when they buy and deploy energy reserves regardless of the weather conditions. Because Honeywell’s technology enables resources owners to utilize every renewable energy resource at their disposal, they are contributing to the global energy transition, according to the company.
Finally, Honeywell’s new C300PM Controller is said to provide customers with a modern, unified process control platform. C300PM is intended for industrial operations employing Honeywell's Enhanced High-Performance Process Manager which integrates the control environment of the legacy TotalPlant Solution and TDC 2000/3000 systems. C300PM also employs Honeywell’s deterministic CEE to execute control strategies on a constant and predictable schedule.
With C300PM, companies undertaking plant renovations or unit expansions can upgrade their controller installed base without needing to completely replace existing hardware, according to Honeywell. It helps manufacturers reduce asset ownership costs, increase production rates, manage risk and extend life of system performance. By upgrading to the C300PM, EHPM users no longer need to develop custom functionality to obtain the same level of performance as the C300 controller in demanding applications such as blending and batch processing. Instead, C300PM utilizes increased processing speed, peer-to-peer communication between different generations of controllers and Custom Algorithm Block functionality to help optimize system performance.
C300PM incorporates the Experion PKS I/O Highly Integrated Virtual Environment (HIVE), which provides a fault-tolerant, high-speed field network allowing the controller to communicate with distributed Honeywell Universal I/O and Series C I/O.
We'll have more on what we heard and saw at HUG2022 in the July issue of Happi.
“We are on the edge of transition,” said Ujjwal Kumar, president of Honeywell Process Solutions. “Of course, we are also in the midst of transition. When the world was locking down, many companies were seeking transformational change. It feels like the pace of change has been permanently altered.”
Kumar welcomed more than 1,200 customer attendees to HUG2022, which took place May 23-26 in Orlando. While companies’ journeys may be different, the destination looks the same, explained Kumar, citing ongoing progress on efficiency, autonomy and diversity fronts.
“The route up is going to vary, but we’ll see the same view from the summit,” he said.
Emission Control & Reduction
Nearly every company shares the same long-term view on sustainability. Honeywell's new products help companies acheive their goals. At HUG2022, Honeywell launched an Emissions Control & Reduction Initiative designed to help customers achieve carbon neutrality in a wide range of areas. The initiative will initially focus on helping oil and gas customers with upstream, midstream and downstream operations to monitor and reduce fugitive methane emissions, which are more than 25 times as potent as carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere according to the US Environmental Protection Agency.
By combining its portfolio of fixed, portable and personal gas detection solutions with gas cloud imaging cameras, Honeywell will provide customers with early detection of fugitive methane emissions, including the precise location of any leaks and associated data analytics and trends. Equipped with this data, users can act quickly to address leaks and other identified risks to minimize production losses and maintain compliance with legislation.
The solution, which combines wireless gas detector technology with enterprise-wide data management solutions, works in tandem with existing Leak Detection & Repair (LDAR) testing methods to improve the accuracy of reporting and increase productivity by enabling users to find production losses faster.
“The Emissions Control and Reduction Initiative expands on Honeywell’s wide range of ready-now technologies that are helping our customers meet their sustainability goals,” said Kumar. “With our pedigree in gas detection and breadth of solutions, Honeywell is providing customers with a holistic and proactive approach to emission reduction that they’ve never had before.”
Also during HUG2022, Honeywell expanded its Experion Energy Control System to facilitate the global energy transition. The system offers new virtual power plant (VPP) capability that enables users to combine smaller energy resources to create virtual resources with sufficient capacity to tap into a variety of energy markets.
The new solution allows utilities, commercial and industrial site operations and power producers to pool their diverse energy assets, no matter the size, to aid with improving the usage while maximizing revenue and minimizing costs.
Through the remote management functionality within the Experion Control System, users have autonomous control to help them choose when they buy and deploy energy reserves regardless of the weather conditions. Because Honeywell’s technology enables resources owners to utilize every renewable energy resource at their disposal, they are contributing to the global energy transition, according to the company.
Unified Process Control Platform
Finally, Honeywell’s new C300PM Controller is said to provide customers with a modern, unified process control platform. C300PM is intended for industrial operations employing Honeywell's Enhanced High-Performance Process Manager which integrates the control environment of the legacy TotalPlant Solution and TDC 2000/3000 systems. C300PM also employs Honeywell’s deterministic CEE to execute control strategies on a constant and predictable schedule.
With C300PM, companies undertaking plant renovations or unit expansions can upgrade their controller installed base without needing to completely replace existing hardware, according to Honeywell. It helps manufacturers reduce asset ownership costs, increase production rates, manage risk and extend life of system performance. By upgrading to the C300PM, EHPM users no longer need to develop custom functionality to obtain the same level of performance as the C300 controller in demanding applications such as blending and batch processing. Instead, C300PM utilizes increased processing speed, peer-to-peer communication between different generations of controllers and Custom Algorithm Block functionality to help optimize system performance.
C300PM incorporates the Experion PKS I/O Highly Integrated Virtual Environment (HIVE), which provides a fault-tolerant, high-speed field network allowing the controller to communicate with distributed Honeywell Universal I/O and Series C I/O.
We'll have more on what we heard and saw at HUG2022 in the July issue of Happi.