Honeywell Process Solutions Partners with Chemical Engineering

May 16, 2008

To support continuous upgrades of facilities for teaching, training and research, the Gordon A. & Mary Cain Department of Chemical Engineering (ChE) and Honeywell Process Solutions have signed an agreement towards the development of a state-of-the-art Process Control Laboratory. Professor Jose A. Romagnoli, Cain Chair Professor in Chemical Engineering at LSU has negotiated a partnership agreement with Honeywell Process Solutions to provide LSU with an upgrade to the existing Laboratory Control System (upgrade and installation support) valued at over $287,505. Within this agreement, an Experion industrial control system is to be used in the control systems lab at LSU. The Experion is part of the new generation of “open” systems and will include capabilities for connecting up to 40 operator stations. The system will have C200 controllers with modules supporting LSU’s existing system, a Fieldbus Interface Module, and HART input and output modules. Other capabilities include OPC interfacing, Excel Data Exchange, Network API, and e-Server. 

Future support in the amount of $91,062 has been committed, from Honeywell Process Solutions, as an industrial contribution towards the joint research and development project entitled “Component Based Multi-Agent Framework for Intelligent Monitoring.” Honeywell will provide this support in the form of software products and labor hours for set-up and consulting. 

This partnership agreement is the result of committed efforts by Professor Romagnoli and David Toups of Honeywell’s Automation & Control Solutions division to support ChE educational programs. Toups is also a current member of the Chemical Engineering Industrial Advisory Committee.

Article by Melanie McCandless, College of Engineering, 225-578-3242, mmonce@lsu.edu

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