The company said that the resulting renewable energy will help meet 2020 European Union (EU) commitments for heat and transport sector requirements. The project involves the migration of Valorly's existing process control system to Honeywell's Experion Process Knowledge System and will be undertaken at Valorly's Rillieux-la-Pape production plant.

Honeywell added that its Experion will be used to control Valorly's incineration system, which transforms waste into both thermal and electrical energy. Incinerating 150,000 tons per year generates 36,000MWh of electrical power, enough to supply 16,500 homes; and 94,000MWh of thermal power, enough for the equivalent of 30,000 inhabitants.

According to the company, Experion will streamline production through the unification of processes, production and business management. The system ties together critical subsystems, including process units and safety systems and delivers relevant information directly to operators for improved decision making in the control room.

Gerard Pouget, plant director at Valorly, said: "The Honeywell proposition was the ideal solution to the slow performance and instability of our previous process control system but without the need for total re-engineering. Experion should make our operations much more efficient overall and is flexible enough to allow periodic technology migrations, which we could not do before."

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