Emerson extends PlantWeb to smart machinery health management for Turbomachinery
December 10th 2007 Emerson Process Management has announced the European release of its new CSI 6000 Machinery Health Monitor that extends its online PlantWeb smart machinery health monitoring capabilities to include API 670 protection for turbomachinery.
The new CSI 6000 integrates API 670 protection with Emerson’s prediction, performance monitoring, and process control capabilities to manage the health of a plant’s most critical assets
Through the PlantWeb digital plant architecture, the CSI 6000 integrates with Emerson’s AMS Suite of predictive maintenance applications enabling reliability and maintenance personnel to improve plant availability and performance. Further integration with Emerson’s Ovation and DeltaV automation systems provide operations with essential machinery information.
The addition of protection for turbomachinery completes Emerson’s online machinery monitoring offering. The new CSI 6000 Machinery Health Monitor protects critical machinery from catastrophic failures, permitting orderly shutdown of equipment and related processes.
Turbomachines are critical assets in power plants, oil and gas production facilities, refineries, pulp and paper mills, chemical and petrochemical plants. These multi-million Euro assets weigh hundreds of tonnes; their blades spin at near supersonic speeds and they often operate at over 500º C and over 200 bar. They can quickly self-destruct if not protected, potentially causing injury, and environmental incidents along with significant economic impacts.
“Turbomachinery is at the heart of many of the largest process plants and, to operate with confidence, our users need predictive diagnostics, performance monitoring and protection systems integrated with process automation,” said John Berra, president of Emerson Process Management. “By delivering these capabilities through the PlantWeb digital plant architecture, Emerson enables users to improve machinery performance over the life cycle of a plant”
The CSI 6000 offers full turbine supervisory instrumentation including case expansion, differential expansion, thrust position, and both relative and absolute vibration with a local display option. The CSI 6000 rack includes buffered outputs for connectivity with any data collector for raw waveform vibration data. The 19” wide rack contains 14 swappable slots, and at 3U high is half the size of traditional racks. The unit also offers dual, redundant 24 VDC power.
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