Honeywell wins award for coal-saving technology

Honeywell has won an Asia-Pacific award for an innovative controls project that helps increase electricity generation while curbing coal consumption at a power plant in Shanghai, China.

The company was awarded the 2008 Most Innovative Power Technology of the Year Award from Asian Power magazine, for its project at Sinopec's Shanghai Petrochemical Company Principal Power Plant.

The control solutions have allowed Sinopec to increase the boiler efficiency by 0.5%, increase the operating steam temperature by 2.1°C and improve stability of key combustion process variables.

The air pollutant emissions from the fuel and limestone consumption have been decreased to comply with environmental standards in the region, and Sinopec is expecting to cut the consumption of standard coal by more than 500 tonnes and coke by 1,600 tonnes annually.

“All improvements were achieved by implementing software, rather than executing a major hardware refurbishment at the plant," said Zhao Weijie, Chief Engineer of Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Company, China.

"We have also to date achieved an estimated $1 million of savings on the supply of energy to our refinery.”

Asian Power magazine is a leading publication for energy professionals in Asia-Pacific. The Asian Power Awards, launched in 2005, recognise the leading contributors to Asia’s power industry whose efforts have stood out over the past year.