Pulp and Paper Process Solutions
PAPERMAKING PROCESS CONTROL SOLUTIONS & SERVICES

Pulp and paper processes are the subject of years of research and development for AAI. With a strong user base, AAI furnishes guarantees on system optimization. Below is a listing of the suite of solutions that AAI supplies to pulp and paper mills. Additionally, the company offers the full range of Electrical & Instrumentation Services as well as Regulatory DCS and Discrete Control Configuration Services. The following optimization packages provide significant savings for mills with typical payback in under one year.

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Recovery Boilers
Production Rate Control (PRC™)

  • Increased Throughput
  • Increased Thermal Efficiency
  • Improved Green Liquor Reduction
  • Reduced Pollutants
  • Increased Run-Time
  • Reduced Process Variability
  • > 95% Auto-Uptime Guarantee

Multi-Fuel Boilers
Dual Master™

  • Optimal Waste-Fuel Burning
  • Reduced Purchased Fuel Use
  • Increased Thermal Efficiency
  • Reduced Process Variability
  • > 95% Auto-Uptime Guarantee

Evaporator Train/Concentrator
Sweet Spot Control™

  • Improved Stability over Wide Operating Rage
  • Thermal Efficiency Increase
  • Minimized Fouling
  • Better Solids Control
  • Reduced Water Load
  • > 95% Auto-Uptime Guarantee

Lime Kiln
LKOS™

  • Reduced Variation in Residual Carbonate
  • Reduced Fuel Consumption
  • Increased Process Stability from Shift to Shift
  • Increased Production Capacity
  • Increased Efficiency
  • Controlled Emissions
  • Improved Equipment Protection
  • Improved Lime Quality
  • > 95% Auto-Uptime Guarantee

Recovery Boiler
Tube Leak Detection
LeakTrac™

  • Accurate Tube Leak Indication
  • Increased Safety

Powerhouse Energy Management System
AAI EMS
**Modules of EMS

  • Reduced Fuel Costs
  • Reduced Purchased Electric Cost
  • Prevents Exceeding Electrical Demand Limit
  • Optimum Exploitation of Real-Time Pricing Option
  • Reduced Steam Demand
  • Reduced Environmental Impact
  • Powerhouse Process Stability


**Coordinated Header Pressure Control
CHP™

  • Stabilized Supply of Steam to Process
  • Reduced Variability in Steam Header Pressure
  • Optimum Header Reaction to Swings in Steam Demand
  • Minimized PRV Use

**Boiler Load Allocation

  • Increased Steam Production Efficiency
  • Reduced Fuel Cost

**Turbine Load Allocation

  • Increased Power Generation
  • Optimum Electrical Generation
  • Minimized Net Cost of Electricity

**Load Shedding

  • Reduced Net Cost of Electricity
  • Prevent Exceeding Demand Limit
  • Saves the Process from Major Upsets due to Steam Production and/or Electrical Generation

**Utility Tie-Line Control
- Real-Time
- Demand Limit
- Megawatt Purchase

  • Optimum Exploitation of Power Contract: Real-Time, Demand Limit, Megawatt Purchased Power

Stock Preparation

  • Reduced Variation in Pulp Stock Consistency
  • Improved Dilution Control
  • Improved Process Operation from Shift to Shift

Sootblowing

  • Reduced Steam Use
  • Reduced Steam Demand

Re-Causticizing

  • Reduced TTA Variation
  • Increased Caustic Efficiency
  • Reduced Variation in Caustic Efficiency
  • Increased White Liquor Quality
  • Improved KAPPA control in the digesters

Continuous Digester Optimization

·  Stabilize the process

·  Provide consistent operation from shift to shift

·  Minimize pulp quality variation – K/Kappa

·  Enable operations to control kappa shifts

·  Reduce wood, chemicals, and energy consumption

·  Provide for seamless changes in production rate

·  Change pulp or species grade with optimal pulp quality

·  Increased yield by alleviating bottlenecks

Batch Digester Optimization

·  Minimize variations in pulp quality

·  Increased digester yield

·  Reduce Chemical Usage

·  Reduced cook cycle and idle times

·  Reduced steam consumption

·  Level steam flow variations

Process Feasibility Study
Process Audit

 

Training Simulators

  • Reduced Start-Up Time and Process Operation Variation
  • Better process control by operators
  • Advanced Process Management

Solutions developed by AAI's team of process experts are customized to meet the unique needs of each mill. Furthermore, AAI solutions can be implemented without excessive hardware expenditure. These solutions can be implemented within the existing DCS (any platform), within an NT control platform or within a PC utilizing a PLC for I/O.

Whatever your needs, AAI can custom tailor a solution to provide competitive advantage to your mill at the lowest possible capital cost.

 

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