When completed, the Burrup facility will be largest liquid ammonia plant in the world with a nameplate production capacity of 760,000 tonnes per annum.

The plant will be controlled by Yokogawa’s flagship Centum CS3000 Distributed Control System which, through a process of continuous development and evolution, is arguably the most modern and functional control system available with case studies proving availability levels of 99.99999%.

“Strategically the award of this project is very important to Yokogawa” says Trevor Briggs, Yokogawa Australia’s managing director. “The Burrup Fertilisers project allows Yokogawa to gain a very important foothold on the Burrup Peninsular where significant industrial development is expected to take place in the future. In order to support that market we will open an office in the region this year.”

Yokogawa’s WA manager Neil Wold said the plant would also showcase a number of the company’s other products such as a fully integrated ProSafe-PLC Emergency Shutdown System, new FieldEye Exd rated CCTV cameras with associated WebDVR Ethernet CCTV recording controller, and an extensive array of field instrumentation.

“Additionally, we will be applying our local procurement procedures and expertise to select vendors and supply a wide variety of other instrumentation. This will include sophisticated analyser systems, primary flow elements, instrument valves and even the 250 or so kilometres of instrument cabling required to hang the whole thing together.”