HONEYWELL HAS ACQUIRED INTERCORR INTERNATIONAL
InterCorr's
Proprietary SmartCET Online Technology Can Reduce Corrosion Costs
to Process Control Customers by up to 20 Percent
InterCorr
International, Inc., is a worldwide leader in solving corrosion
and materials problems. InterCorr's proprietary SmartCET technology
will be integrated with Honeywell's Experion™ Process Knowledge
System (PKS) to provide online, real-time data that will help customers
reduce maintenance costs and increase unit productivity through
minimizing failures, avoiding unplanned downtime and increased run
time.
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Honeywell Process Solutions.
Based in Houston,
InterCorr is world-renowned for its technical expertise in the petroleum,
energy and transportation sectors. The company has served more than
850 clients in 32 countries over its 21 year history. The company specializes
in corrosion monitoring instrumentation, testing and consulting services
and predictive software and corrosion research. "Global process control
industries spend an average of $50 billion a year on corrosion problems,
which can hinder their abilities to operate at optimal levels," said
Jack Bolick, president of Honeywell Process Solutions. "By integrating
InterCorr technology with Experion PKS, we anticipate helping our customers
save on corrosion detection and prevention. It has been estimated that
the cost of corrosion can be reduced by up to 20 percent through the
paradigm shift gained by going from offline monitoring to InterCorr's
online, real-time technology."
InterCorr's services
include materials consulting, laboratory testing, measurement and test
equipment servicing, analytical services and corrosion diagnostic and
control services. Its software offerings include programs for corrosion
prediction, risk assessment, materials selection and asset management.
InterCorr also provides systems for process control and the detection
of general, pitting and microbiologically influenced corrosion.
"Corrosion has traditionally
been a niche industry, partly because it has only provided offline,
historical data for general corrosion," said Lars Jorgensen, InterCorr
CEO. "With the combination of InterCorr's deep corrosion knowledge,
SmartCet technology, and Honeywell's vast process knowledge, we will
take proactive corrosion control to a new level."
"SmartCET is designed
to reduce the financial burden that corrosion-related problems bring
to the process industries," said Dr. Russel Kane, chief technologist
and founder of InterCorr. "It provides online, real-time data that measures
the corrosion rate in mils per year (mpy) and detects general and localized
(pitting) corrosion conditions. Localized corrosion is responsible for
approximately 70 percent to 90 percent of corrosion-related equipment
failures."
SmartCET gives plant
operators access to current, actionable process variable information,
such as the corrosion rate and pitting (localized corrosion) detection.
Other parameters are available through the use of SmartCET that can
be used for online corrosion diagnostics and for improved accuracy of
corrosion rate data that was previously unavailable through process
control systems. Integrated with Experion, SmartCET allows operators
to transform raw corrosion-monitoring data into high-value process knowledge.
Operators can use this information to make critical business decisions
quickly and take proactive actions to optimize plant performance. As
a result, plants experience several benefits, including:
- Increase in plant
uptime due to improved reliability of assets
- Reduction in
maintenance costs by moving from scheduled to reliability-centered
maintenance
- Maximized production
throughput
- Improved safety
and minimizing the deleterious effects of process upsets and excursions
Experion is Honeywell's
proven automation and control system that unifies people with process,
business and asset management information to help process manufacturers
increase profitability and productivity.
