BHP Nickel West
NKS MicroXL / CS3000 Upgrade Project
- Kalgoorlie, Australia
- Nickel Smelter
- Control System - Yokogawa Centum VP
The project consisted of replacing the obsolete MicroXL units and upgrading the existing CS3000 systems to Centum VP5. Identified safety instrumented functions (SIFs) from the hazard and operability studies (HAZOP) assessments were removed from existing software code and implemented in an independent safety instrumented system (SIS).
Project scope
- HAZOPs assessments
- DCS coding and design
- Development of functional specifications
- DCS/SIS software implementation
- Designing the network and hardware architecture
- Development of factory acceptance testing procedures
- Development of hardware/software migration for dynamic shutdown planning
Project highlights
- Implementation of logic using the latest Centum VP function block libraries
- Conversion of 5 Yokogawa CS 3000 FCS’s to Centum VP
- Conversion of 14 Yokogawa MicroXL units to Centum VP
- Project completed on schedule over several planned outages with no production loss
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