BASF SE

End customer

BASF SE

Location

Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany

Project name

Plant warning systems

General project description

BASF SE in Ludwigshafen has become the world's largest continuous chemical area. In the main BASF plant with approx. 160 intelligent interconnected production sites, a wide range of products is manufactured in a cost-effective way.

Project scope

  • Task: Planning, delivery and commissioning
  • System: General alarm, public address and communication systems
  • Scope of delivery/details: 4 INTRON-D main systems and 150 INTRON-D sub-systems with over 50,000 W amplifier output
  • Schedule: 2004 planning, from 2005 delivery of main centers and up to the end of 2008 delivery of the 150 public address systems (sub-systems)
  • Parties involved in the project: Implementation directly with the end customer

Special features

Implementation of a complete plant warning system for the largest continuous chemical industrial site in the world. The master INTRON-D system for the fire service controls 3 further main systems in the plant. The 150 INTRON-D systems and 50 external systems are connected to this system. All connected systems in the departments can be accessed via two INTRON-D service PC operating stations. All networking is carried out via fiber optic cable.
Interface to the control stand system with integration of the control stands.

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