Chemtech Provides Solutions for Water Industry
For over a year Chemtech has been providing solutions for the water industry. In 2005 and 2006 PDAI (Automation and Information Master Plan) projects and the NEW SCOA (Supply Operational Control System) were developed for Sabesp (Basic Sanitation Company of the State of São Paulo), the latter of which is scheduled to start-up on November 29.
Chemtech holds a highly specialized and qualified team capable of providing different solutions and improvements for the water industry. Here are some of these solutions:
– MES layer: enables integration between control systems and corporate systems (geographic, energy consumption, user assistance, among others);
– PDA application: integration between field teams and control center team through PDA technology;
– decision-making support system: integration of control system (historical data), demand forecast and simulation in stationary system for the generation of an operational plan to be followed by the operational team;
– optimization of water supply process: integration of the decision-making support system to an optimization system to maximize water supply and minimize electric energy consumption;
– operational intelligence: real-time data visualization system of all relevant rates for the water company business.
Sabesp has been able to check the efficiency of Chemtech work and continues to count on our services. NEW SCOA is an updating of the Supply Operational Control System. Its main purpose is to provide gains to Sabesp as a decision-making support system integrated to all control tools; operational intelligence system (XHQ) making the performance rates per remote station, per area, per unit, as well as the corporate performance, available; and enabling the comparison of data among the various Sabesp corporate systems, such as water consumption by the population vs. production of treated water.
Sabesp has been using SCOA since 1977; this system enables the company to manage treated water transmission from the Water Treatment Plants to the reservoirs throughout the Integrated Water Supply System of the São Paulo Metropolitan Region. The updated system, the NEW SCOA, will enable the control and simulation of all potable water arriving in the São Paulo reservoirs and which is then, through the control of another system, taken to the homes.
The project involves SCADA and PIMS configuration, definition of performance rates, operational intelligence (XHQ), interfaces with internal Sabesp systems, and modeling and simulation of the regional potable water transmission and storage system. The implementation of this project, to be concluded by February 2007, will take place with no interference whatsoever in the water supply.
Data from more than 180 remote plants spread over an area of approximately 1,500 km2 will be collected. This updating has strategic significance for Sabesp since it will enable the upgrading of operational security, the optimization of costs, and the supply of operational and managerial information to the various Company Units through the integrated adoption of new technologies.
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About Chemtech
Chemtech (www.chemtech-siemens.com) was founded by three chemical engineers, in Rio de Janeiro, in 1989. It is specialized in services and IT solutions for process industries (oil & gas, petrochemical and chemical, metals and mining, paper & pulp) and food & beverages. In March 2001, the company became a member of the Siemens group and it is now part of the IP (Industrial Plants) division of the I&S (Industrial Solutions and Services) group. Since then, Chemtech has started to interact with other Siemens divisions and to offer more complete and sophisticated solutions to its clients.
Chemtech has its head office in Rio de Janeiro and support offices in São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Salvador, Porto Alegre, Manaus, and Houston.
Among Chemtech clients are Exxon Mobil, Saudi Aramco, and Petrobras. It also works with the 10 largest companies in the petrochemical and chemical industry in Brazil, with the 5 largest paper companies, the 4 largest mining companies, 3 of the 5 largest steel companies, and 4 of the 6 largest consumer product companies, according to the ranking of Exame magazine.
In 2006, Chemtech was chosen the 3rd best company to work at in Brazil, ranked among the 30 best companies for women, and among the three best in companionship by the Great Place to Work Institute and by Revista Epoca. It was also ranked, for the third consecutive year, among the 150 best companies according to Guia Exame РVoc̻ S/A, which also chose Chemtech as the 3rd best company in technology.
