DES PLAINES, Ill., Sept. 18, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Honeywell
(NYSE: HON) UOP today announced Alfa Laval Packinox has joined its
Honeywell Connected Plant initiative to help refiners make their
operations safer, more efficient and more reliable.
Through the Honeywell Connected Plant initiative, Alfa Laval can
help refiners and petrochemical producers improve the ease of
operation and operating reliability of their Alfa Laval Packinox
special welded heat exchangers. These heat exchangers are a
critical component of Honeywell UOP's CCR Platforming™ technology,
which produces high-octane motor fuels and aromatics.
"Honeywell Connected Plant services are unlike any other
cloud-based offering because they combine deep process knowledge
and analytical capabilities to help refineries and petrochemical
plants operate far more reliably and profitably," said Zak Alzein, Vice President and Chief Product
Officer, Honeywell Connected Plant. "By working as a Honeywell
Connected Plant partner, Alfa Laval can use data from these
services to further improve the operating recommendations provided
to the customer and even to develop new heat exchanger
designs."
The Honeywell Connected Plant initiative supports an ecosystem
among equipment suppliers and technology partners involved in
providing Honeywell technologies. Partners such as Packinox can
develop new innovations and generations of products and services
from customer-generated data.
Honeywell serves the industry with advanced process technology
that converts oil and gas into valuable clean fuels, petrochemicals
and other products. It also provides automation and control systems
that ensure the safe and efficient operation of refineries,
chemical plants and other manufacturing facilities, and software
solutions for process optimization and predictive maintenance. The
Honeywell Connected Plant combines Honeywell's unmatched industrial
expertise in process technology and control systems with software
and cloud technologies to make customers' operations more reliable,
profitable and secure than previously possible.
"Through Honeywell UOP's vast experience with refineries and
petrochemical plants all over the globe, Honeywell Connected Plant
partners such as Alfa Laval can use big data to drive the next
generation of technologies and equipment," Alzein added. "This
enables our partners to leverage a common technology ecosystem to
develop and provide better products to our common customers."
Alfa Laval (NASDAQ: OMX) is a
leading global provider of specialized products and engineering
solutions based on heat transfer, separation and fluid handling
technologies. The company's products are used in power plants,
aboard ships, in oil and gas exploration, mechanical engineering,
the mining industry, and for wastewater treatment, and comfort
climate and refrigeration applications.
Honeywell UOP (www.uop.com) is a leading international supplier
and licensor of process technology, catalysts, adsorbents,
equipment, and consulting services to the petroleum refining,
petrochemical, and gas processing industries. Honeywell UOP is part
of Honeywell's Performance Materials and Technologies strategic
business group, which also includes Honeywell Process Solutions
(www.honeywellprocess.com), a pioneer in automation control,
instrumentation and services for the oil and gas, refining,
petrochemical, chemical and other industries.
Honeywell (www.honeywell.com) is a Fortune 100
software-industrial company that delivers industry specific
solutions that include aerospace and automotive products and
services; control technologies for buildings, homes, and industry;
and performance materials globally. Our technologies help
everything from aircraft, cars, homes and buildings, manufacturing
plants, supply chains, and workers become more connected to make
our world smarter, safer, and more sustainable. For more news
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www.honeywell.com/newsroom.
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