Automation of new Lubrizol additives facility in Zhuhai

Emerson Process Management and The Lubrizol Corporation have completed on-schedule, on-budget factory acceptance of Emerson’s integrated automation solution for Lubrizol’s greenfield additives manufacturing facility in Zhuhai, China. Emerson is the Main Automation Contractor for the plant, which will offer select additive component manufacturing as well as additive package blending. The Zhuhai plant is the cornerstone of Lubrizol’s 10-year investment plan to upgrade operations and increase global capacity in additives. Lubrizol will phase in select capacity additions at the facility to meet market demand. At Zhuhai, Emerson’s Main Automation Contractor role includes collaborating with the Lubrizol team to engineer, project-manage, install and commission a complete automation solution for the new additives plant. The Emerson solution is based on a front-end engineering and design (FEED) study done previously at Lubrizol’s facility in Deer Park, Texas. Emerson’s DeltaV system will manage more than 2900 inputs and outputs, including Rosemount? measurement and analytical instruments, Micro Motion? Coriolis meters,Fisher? control valves and regulators, and on-off valves with FieldQ? actuators – a total of almost 1900 Emerson measurement and control devices. www.emerson.com