Vortec CaseStudy Honeywell0 pages

HONEYWELL: Exceeding Expectations
Exceeding Expectations: Vortec Creates Custom-Design for Pulp and
Paper Industry Application
Overview
Honeywell Process Solutions has been providing advanced technology applications to industry
for three decades. Honeywell employs over 10,000 people in 95 countries, including its four
global engineering centers in India, Romania, Argentina and China. The Phoenix, Arizona headquartered company, a division of Honeywell ACS, delivers automation and control
solutions designed to improve customers’ business
performance. Honeywell’s technology enables their
clients to improve energy efficiency, increasing the
return on assets by reducing costs and improving
uptime. Honeywell’s customer base represents a
wide range of industries including oil and gas; pulp,
paper and printing; power generation; chemicals and
petrochemicals; minerals and mining.

The Challenge
The Vancouver, British Columbia office of Honeywell
Process Solutions specializes in Pulp and Paper
applications and Continuous Web Solutions (CWS).
“Essentially,” says Mechanical Engineer Stuart Heath,
“CWS is anything made in sheet form—plastics,
metals, flooring material, roofing materials. We
design and manufacture complex multi-measurement
sensors for Pulp and Paper and CWS manufacturing
facilities.” For several years, Honeywell utilized the
Vortec airflow amplifier model 901 in an application
for pulp and paper plants. “We used Vortec’s airflow
amplifier in a different way than what it was initially
designed to be,” notes Heath. “In our application,
the airflow amplifier was employed to aspirate air
from a gap between a source and a receiver in
order to measure the temperature of the air in that
gap. Every papermaker needs these measurements
our application provides. We began using Vortec’s
product because it was unique. I have never seen
a similar product made by anyone else. The Vortec
airflow amplifier became a very important component
in the design of our application.”
Recently, Vortec re-designed the airflow amplifier
Honeywell used as a vacuum generator to help make
the basis weight measurement in its paper and pulp
application.

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