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© West Indies Alumina CompanyJoint Venture members: Glencore Alumina Jamaica Limited, Jamaica Bauxite Mining Limited.
PI Informant
Technological Awakening
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Windalco
• Joint Venture – Glencore Alumina Jamaica Ltd (93%)– Jamaica Bauxite Mining Limited (7%)
• Assets– Alumina Refineries – Kirkvine & Ewarton Works– Port - Port Esquivel
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5 0 10 20 3010Miles
Montego BayPort Rhoades
Kingston
Ewarton
M
SML 162
Alpart
JBM
Alcoa
Bauxite Mining Leases in Jamaica
Major Bauxite Bearing Areas
Parish Boundary
M = Mandeville
Kaiser
Port Kaiser
Windalco
JBM
Railway
WindalcoSML 161
WindalcoSEPL 524
(130.8 sq.km)(67.98 sq.km)
(139.67 sq.km)
816 0 16 32 48
Kilometers
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Refinery Locations
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Bayer Process
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Objective and Infrastructure
• DCS/Advanced Controls Department– Plant Optimisation– Technology
• Honeywell TPS (DCS)• ABB (DCS)• Expert Systems
– RMPCT (Kirkvine)– Inhouse CL Programs– ABB Expert Optimiser (Kirkvine & Ewarton)
• PI 3• Processbook 2.3
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Why?
• PI Processbook has become the standard tool of management, team leaders, engineers and operators, that is, people directly connected the process.
• Some of the Processbook files are huge, consuming computer resources and they take some time to load up.
• There was a need for a ‘lightweight’ program which could access the same PI information and display it.
• Increase the utilisation of PI across the organisation.
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What is it?
• Program written completely in Visual Basic 6.• Ticker type functionality (information runs across the
screen). Process values are displayed under various headings which can be customized by the user.
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Features
• Add and Delete tags and Categories from this dialog box.
• Right clicking on any tag brings up a menu.
• Selecting Manage Tags brings up the dialog box
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Feature cont’d
• Pressing on Trend brings up a basic trend of the tag. Still some bugs to be worked out.
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Features cont’d
• Can stay on top all the other programs. Menu item is toggles this feature on and off.
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Features cont’d
• Can change program settings via the Preferences option.– The scroll speed and
program colours can be changed.
– Remembers the last settings upon start-up of the program.
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Demo
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Future
• Improve program with advances in PI technology and User input.
• Increase company wide utilisation.
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