Emerson’s Analytical group has pushed our imaginations even further by embracing Smart Wireless to develop our own innovative wireless solutions. Rosemount Analytical’s wireless solution consists of two key components added to our standard analytical system – the Smart Wireless Gateway that connects WirelessHART™ self-organizing networks with host systems and data applications, and the Smart Wireless THUM Adapter, which is added to the Rosemount Analytical Model 1056 intelligent four-wire transmitter to enable wireless transmission of measurement and diagnostic information.
Singaport Cleanseas is embracing the potential of wireless with their new wireless CEM solution from Rosemount Analytical. Until this project, wireless CEMS didn’t exist. Rosemount Analytical examined the challenges that Singaport Cleanseas faced and developed a unique wireless CEMS configuration that could help not only Singaport Cleanseas, but also other process plants throughout Asia. (It is important to mention that a wireless CEM solution wouldn’t be a good solution in the United States, due to restrictions set by the Environmental Protection Agency.)
In a typical wireless CEM system configuration, Rosemount Analytical engineers a standard CEM system using a sample probe to extract gas from the smoke stack, which is then conditioned to remove contaminants using a sample handling system. The process gas analyzers that make up the CEM system can include the X-STREAM, X-STREAM Enhanced, or MLT process gas analyzer, or a combination of each, as well as Rosemount Analytical oxygen and combustibles analyzers, Rosemount Analytical opacity monitors, and various third-party analyzers that may be required to fit the specific needs of each customer. Then, Rosemount Analytical uses the Model 1056 analyzers to convert the analog signals of the data acquisition system into HART digital signals used in wireless communications. The data is then transmitted to the control room via SmartWireless THUM Adaptors installed on each Model 1056 analyzer. With this wireless configuration, every device in the network can pass information along for its neighboring devices, so if something disrupts communications between two devices, the network automatically provides an alternate path.
With a smart wireless CEM solution, customers meet their country-specific requirements for emissions reporting while containing project costs and operating costs. It also offers an inherently flexible system that offers mobility, in case future growth requires moving the control room or other facilities.
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