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Queensland Nickel

(Townsville Refinery)

Thorburn Australia has a long relationship with Queensland Nickel spanning over 15 years. During this time, we have performed many varied projects including our assistance with the YEP (Yabulu Expansion Project).

For owners including Freeport to Alan Bond to BHP Billiton and finally the famous Clive Palmer, Thorburn Australia had been working on this site.

Projects undertaken exclusively by Thorburn Australia include:

• MHP Tippler Implementation (YEP)
• Ball Mill No. 1 PLC Upgrade
• Burner Management System
• 330 System 6 IO Migration
• 367 System 6 IO Upgrade Project (
• 367 Variable Speed Drive Upgrade (80 VSD’s)
• 370 Calciner Water Supply Projects
• Samson Feeder PLC Upgrade
• RO Water Treatment Plant
• 320 Bag House System
• 330 3.3kV Starters
• 380 Compact Bagging Station
• Site Wide Control System Network Audit

Project Features

Programmable Logic Controllers

Schneider Quantum, Allen Bradley, Siemens S5, Modicon 984, 884 and 484 PLC’s, System 6 DCS.

HMI

Citect, Wonderware, ABB Conductor Human Machine Interfaces.

MV Switchgear

Nilsen, GEC, Raytheon MV Switchear, GE 889, 369, 269, 745 Protection Relays.

Advanced Process Control

Invensys Connoisseur Model Predictive Controller for multi-variable, optimised process control.

Communications

Plant wide, end to end, communications audit including application to physical fibre layer.

Instrumentation

Yokogawa, Endress & Hauser, Vega, Rosemount, Analytical and Gas Monitoring instrumentation.