SCADA PROVIDES PLANT VISUALISATION AND CONTROL FOR EUROPE'S LARGEST BIO-DIGESTER

摘要

The entrepreneurial spirit is strong with Henry du Val de Beaulieu who is building a giant 10,000 cubic metre fourth bio digester tank at his farm estate in Hampshire. Providing site visibility and remote control over most aspects of this already large anaerobic digestion enterprise site, including key parameters such as equipment status, temperature, pressure and gas/electricity generation is the robust and easy to use Movicon SCADA solution provided by UK SCADA expert, Products4Automation (P4A) Fuelled by local crops, the site produces a small amount of electricity, some of which is used to power the three AD plants. Two CHP units provide heat for the process in addition to keeping the farmhouse and outbuildings warm in the winter months. The main output however is biogas, which is cleaned and mixed with propane to match target calorific values and then fed directly into the national gas main system.