Digital automation for coal gasification plant

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Shanghai Coking Chemical Corporation and Emerson Process Management announced that Emerson had been selected to provide its PlantWeb digital plant architecture with Foundation fieldbus technology for the $375 million expansion of the coal gasification plant in Shanghai.

The project has doubled the plant’s output of methanol and carbon monoxide to help meet the rapidly increasing need for methanol in the region. The expanded plant began operation in June 2008. >> more info