HTI Hydrocarbon Technology & Innovation, LLC
Pilot Plant Facility – Lawrenceville, NJ
Construction Costs: $400K
HTI’s mission is to offer world class catalytic solutions, technical consultation, engineering design and services for the traditional petroleum refining, coal conversion and renewables markets. HTI conducts research and development at its own Pilot Plant facility in Lawrenceville, New Jersey to support this mission and offers access to its technical resources to 3rd Party Clients on a service basis.
HTI is investing in new pilot plant capacities to expand its testing portfolio and has recently completed construction on a one of a kind 2-Stage hydroprocessing pilot unit with interstage stripping. This unit can operate in recycle and once-through modes using a variety of feedstocks. HTI’s target with this unit is to pilot traditional 2-Stage hydrocracking applications, as well as renewables and advanced recycling technologies.
Requirement
An intrinsically safe control system for monitoring temperature, flow, pressure and level in their process. NSI was contracted to design, build, integrate, install, and wire this system. The enclosure consisted of a purging system, IS isolators and 100 power controllers for electric heaters. The controllers communicate back to the Eurotherm T2750 control system in the control room. The use of an Eaton MTL 838 IS remote I/O system reduced the thermocouple installation by over 50%.
Services Provided
Products
Features
Our customer had a SCADA system in place that monitored the boilers and the gas detection system. However, an excessive amount of time was spent collecting data from remote chart recorders and indicators.
The Iconics SCADA system was expanded four-fold in order to bring in many remote parts of the plant. Twenty-five new stainless steel enclosures were installed— each being connected back to the control
room with a mix of serial comms, ethernet radios,fiber cable and copper ethernet. This meant that five-hundred new I/O was added to the control room screens along with alarms for dozens of key plant parameters.
With the new SCADA system in place, the time spent driving to remote parts of the plant has been significantly reduced as was the speed with which problems could be identified.
A landfill customer was in need of a new control system for their flare operation— a secondary disposal path for methane. Their current system was 20 years old, outdated, and remained dormant for 4 years.
Their old panel had an obsolete circular chart recorder. Since their system was down for 4 years, NSI worked with them through the process of identifying potential roadblocks and old units that needed to be replaced.
Neal Systems redesigned and retrofitted their old system with custom screens and newer technology, creating a cleaner, EPA compliant, operator interface.
NSI retrofitted and rewired their current panel with Foxboro Scadapack 474 RTU and Eurotherm Nanodac for recording and PID loop control. The Scadapack 474 is ruggedized and able to operate in harsh environments, which makes it the perfect solution for outdoor operations.
Custom panel creation
Field Installation/Modification
Custom Engineering drawings
Integration with existing field devices
Trained staff and provided back-end support
Cleaner/more intuitive and capable operator interface
Easier data recording and storage
Custom screens for flare operation and maintenance Worked with customer to revive dormant system
