BMA Info 53/2015

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A successful year for BMA America

New projects and new colleagues in Colorado.

Breaking new ground in Central America

Last year, a total of four top sugar producers in Central America decided to upgrade their plants. They opted for BMA products – breaking new ground for sugar factories in the region.

Installation and commissioning of a pan seeding system

In the beet sugar industry, pan seeding systems have been established for a long time. BMA has now successfully applied the process in the cane sugar industry.

Manufacturing and service – BMA Brazil expands its capacities

In 2012, BMA set up its subsidiary BMA Brasil Equipamentos Industriais Ltda. – who has since gone from strength to strength. A new production and service centre opened in Indaiatuba in early September 2014.

Interview

BMA Info talks to Igor Djoukwé

A force, to be reckoned with

BMA MENA Industries are going from strength to strength as a design and service provider in the Middle East and North Africa.

Agrosnabsakhar – How a project turned into a big surprise

On first contact with the Agrosnabsakhar sugar factory, nobody at BMA could have foreseen how this collaboration would grow.

Russian pioneers – VKT for a competitive edge

The Russian sugar industry is driving the extension and upgrade of its production sites and BMA plays a key role in this development. The result: a significant increase in output.

Four companies, three continents, two years, one goal

Together with Etihad Food Industries, the BMA Group has got a large-scale project off the ground – collaboration at its best.

Innovations for better performance – A new drying and cooling plant

A good cooling and drying system is the key to high sugar quality. Reason enough for BMA to continuously enhance this equipment, launching new and innovative products on the market.

A premiere in Pakistan – Successful commissioning of two falling-film evaporators

Reducing consumption of resources to a minimum while enhancing performance – those were the objectives for a factory in Pakistan specified in the order JDW Sugar Mills Ltd. placed with BMA.

Indian Cane Power Ltd.– More revenue thanks to co-generation

Indian Cane Power Ltd. (ICPL) relies on bagasse for power generation. For several years now, BMA has helped the company implement its innovative concepts with numerous supplies of equipment.

Uzbekistan‘s most cutting-edge factory

The Angren Shakar refinery was commissioned in August 2014.

Expanding centrifugal production for China

In 2014, BMA China expanded its assembly range to include not only continuous centrifugals but also batch-type machines (see also BMA Info 52/2014). The model in question belongs to the well-established and reliable B series.

Centrifugals from BMA: Made in Germany

2014 was a truly international year, also for BMA‘s product business: customers on all continents opted for BMA centrifugals.

BMA Automation: a complex factory acceptance test

With the supply of the process control system including all key electrical equipment, BMA Automation was involved in the design of the new refinery in Iraq right from the start. The complex factory acceptance test was a major milestone on the path to the finished plant.

Scientific exchange across the globe – BMA at international conferences

BMA has been presenting the latest developments from current international sugar industry projects at conferences across the globe. The report on the upgrade and capacity extension of the ICPL cane sugar factory is a recent outstanding example.

Engineering projects for the cane and beet sugar industries

In the beet sugar industry, pan seeding systems have been established for a long time. BMA has now successfully applied the process in the cane sugar sector.

Overview of all articles

11.05.2016

From strength to strength

BMA Automation implements process control system for Agrosnabsakhar

Process control system

What had started with a centrifugal delivery a few years previously continued in 2014 with the signing of additional agreements for delivery of extraction and evaporator plants. Collaboration between BMA and the Agrosnabsakhar sugar factory at Yelets in Russia has been going from strength to strength (see BMA Info 53/2015); in 2015, the agreement was extended to include a process control system.


Manufacturing


On-site assembly


Visualisation of direct control system for beet washing

Expanding business relations

In 2014, Agrosnabsakhar ordered an extraction plant, three falling-film evaporators and a sugar drying plant from BMA. Except for the extraction system, all plants were integrated into the factory and commissioned before the start of the 2015 beet campaign. Still to follow was the highly detailed and accurate mapping and control of the complex production processes – which requires use of a state-of-the-art automation system. In BMA Automation, the Agrosnabsakhar sugar factory had the perfect partner at their side for the development and implementation of an up-to-date process control system. BMA Russia also participated in these activities.


Left: Commissioning, right: Beet washing in operation

Successful automation

The long-term aim of the project was to update the complete automation system for the new extraction and evaporation plants and the drier to the state of the art. One additional automation task was the integration of a plant from a third-party supplier – the new beet washing equipment – into the new process control system.

With the project starting late and commissioning due before the start of the 2015 beet campaign, scheduling was a challenge for BMA Automation at times. But thanks to the very effective project management, the switchgear, over 30 m long, was delivered to the customer in time, at the end of June.

As with many similar projects, a factory acceptance test (FAT) was carried out using SIMIT, which permitted a realistic simulation of almost all operating situations. The benefit of the FAT became obvious later, during commissioning at the construction site. In no time at all and without any major adjustments or even modifications being required, all systems were commissioned: the new beet washing equipment with its many individual plants, the seven evaporators, and the new drier from BMA. On 11 September 2015, the first beets were washed, marking a successful start to the campaign.

With the implementation of this state-ofthe-art process control system, Agrosnabsakhar has laid the foundations for integration of additional process stations with the direct control system, permitting the agricultural producer to stay ahead in automation.

Michael König
BMA Automation
sales@bma-automation.com