All sweetness and light, and heat
15 Jan 2000
A new combined heat and power plant at British Sugar's Bury St Edmunds factory in Suffolk will be under the control of a Honeywell TotalPlant Solution (TPS) system following the award of a recent contract.
Honeywell won the contract because of its earlier success at British Sugar's Wissington factory, where it had integrated a complex software solution with the sugar factory's existing control system. The Bury St Edmunds factory processes sugar beet into refined sugar crystals and animal feeds.
The CHP plant provides process heat and power and also exports power to the electricity grid. Its primary driver is a 47MW gas turbine, with exhaust heat converted by a recovery boiler into steam at up to 75barg. This steam passes to a reducing turbine for the 2-3barg process steam and further power. The TPS system will allow optimisation of the power and steam supplies.
