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The VIPA Journal Company Newspaper of VIPA GmbH No. 4 I July 2012 NOT ONLY THE NEW LOGO IS GREENER… Content 2 Automation for the environment 11 New products 14 Profichip 2 8 18 VIPA Italia 20 VIPA Sporting Sewage plant Detmold – Profichip – 23 Touristy tips for Franconia Higher energy efficiency Good skiing and toboggan with PROFIBUS Seite 2 | Juli 2012 Das VIPA Journal SPEED Automation for the environment VIPA offers the suitable PLC technology FORWARD The responsible use of resources does not end with automation technology. Envi- ronmental awareness plays a decisive role in more and more areas, regardless as At VIPA things are happening, recognizable to whether it is a question of energy, saving resources or increased protection of by the new appearance of this VIPA journal. the environment. Not only are industrial producers required to establish an energy We have given all the documents, the home balance, but also every private consumer is compelled by various product reviews page and our other publications worldwide a and recommendations to pay attention to the energy balance of electrical appliances, new uniform design and, with this, we want for example, when purchasing. Because of the, now, very strict guidelines, such as to express our position as an innovative PLC with energy consumption for lighting and heating, Germany is one of the pioneers of provider in the field of Automation even more an environmentally friendly energy policy. VIPA already took this development into so than in the past. After reading this journal account in the past. Three areas come to the fore: we recommend a visit to our new website at www.vipa.com. As the cover picture already indicates: this edition is dedicated to the environment. The core industries of the automation world, to which without doubt, the environmental industry belongs, have moved even more into focus. Renewable energy systems, environ- mentally friendly building automation and control systems in the water-wastewater sec- tor are no longer feasible without modern automation technology. Several articles devote themselves to this subject in detail. We researched the annals of VIPA and here What potential for hardware manufacturers we made a find about the beginnings of the can be deduced from this? According to VIPA chip-daughter profichip and the first VDMA forecast for 2011, the sales volume of European VIPA foreign representation in Italy; the industry water / wastewater in Germany interesting facts about this in this issue. is estimated at approximately € 1.45 billion, the export proportion accounts for € 850 For the sports section this time we have million, or approximately 59%. 70% of this drawn, among other things, on the experien- sales volume is distributed over 5 major ces of a VIPA business partner. With his consumer groups: support we have been able to put together a stunning article including great pictures Water/wastewater • Public and private supply and Disposal about a Himalayan crossing by bicycle For many years, VIPA has worked together with approximately 30% exclusively for this Journal. with Planning agencies, with manufacturers of • Chemical, petrochemical and Pharmaceu- control systems and with plant construction tical industry with about 14% As the summer travel season is soon firms, who concentrate as specialists in the • F & B, including the beverage industry with imminent, we have this time included areas of water supply and wastewater about 12% suggestions and tips for holiday and leisure management. On the one hand It is a • Pulp and paper with about 7% activities in the region of Franconia. question here of the new construction of • Metal Products and Equipment with about corresponding plants, but also measures to 6% We hope you enjoy reading the journal and modernize existing facilities. The legislature wish you lots of fun during your recreational has again and again, reinforced the rules If we proceed from an average of about 4% activities in our region regarding the Wastewater Quality (Water share of pure hardware costs (PLC plus Resources Act, WHG) for such facilities, so accessories) to the entire Plant costs, results that for VIPA and their partners a wide field of on the basis of the expected sales volume a activity opens up here, because the imple- sales potential of about €58 million for ICA mentation of these regulations can be more tasks. Your Wolfgang Seel easily realized by the integration of modern automation systems. Many already successfully implemented projects show that VIPA can offer some of the best solutions for this market. Figure 1 shows that in many regions nationwide VIPA SPEED Das VIPA Journal Juli 2012 | Seite 3 systems are already in use. Through Renewable Energy Building Automation increased contacts with the planning Here lies the focus of the VIPA activities in Also building automation is meanwhile agencies the gaps in the coverage are to be the area combined heat and power plants subject to strict regulations regarding energy closed for the long term. Also the inclusion of (CHP) in conjunction with biogas plants. This saving and environmental protection. Here other partners from the fields of plant and form of alternative and distributed generation the legislature has in recent years passed process control systems in the overall of electrical energy is becoming increasingly more and more regulations regarding concept strongly supports this objective. important in Germany. According to the Building insulation and energy consumption. Already completed modernization in Sewage Professional Association of biogas about The very complex requirements can only be treatment plants and new technologies in the 1,200 biogas plants were produced in 2011. realized with elaborate automation technolo- municipal water treatment show that the use But there is no accurate forecast of the gy. Modern control systems not only include of modern control technology in the first amount of new plants to be produced or air conditioning, heating and ventilation, but place serves to reduce contamination of details of plant capacity and output. Given an also lighting and light adaptation, access water through improved Quality of the ever-increasing share of exports a forecast of control and other areas , in some cases, wastewater. In addition the plant moderniza- 1,000 new plants per year appears to us to connected with security. Many years ago tion brings with it cost savings due to the be realistic. The control requirement per plant VIPA sought here the collaboration with energy saved in the operation of the facilities lies between € 1500 and € 4000 depending renowned building automators e.g. Frimat, and lower fees due to lower contamination. on the configuration with / without HMI. The Klingenberg, Hermus, and M + W Zander, technologies required cannot manage who are among the major suppliers in without sophisticated automation technology, Germany. Many new VIPA control modules, so a wide field opens up for VIPA here too. such as M-Bus-CP, CP EnOcean, have Our main focus is on cooperation with arisen under this collaboration. Further partners in the field of Biogas plants. There control modules are currently under develop- are some promising approaches from our ment in order to meet all necessary precon- Gesamt Umwelt Wasser customer for VIPA control technology in ditions for future-proof solutions also in the such plants. Even in the generation of area of building automation. VIPA itself has Kiel Rostock electricity from Hydropower VIPA con- also fully implemented the knowledge 17111 Lübeck Sarow trol systems can be found. Currently, gleaned from practice in the company‘s own Bremerhaven Schwerin within the framework of water buildings. Several articles and publications, 17237 Hamburg Blankensee 17291 19273 Prenzlau Amt Neuhaus supply, a VIPA partner is involved as also in Issue 2 of the VIPA journal 16928 16909 17268 19348 Pritzwalk Wittstock Templin Oldenburg Perleberg 16775 Löwenberger Land in a project, in which the goal is, „SPEED“, report about the numerous 39615 Bremen29664 Seehausen Walsrode 16845 39606 Neustadt 16259 Osterburg Bad Freienwalde with the help of turbines, to use projects, which, together with our customers, 14715 14641 Schollene Nauen 15345 Altlandsberg 15518 the spring water inflow for the we have successfully completed. Wolfsburg BerlinBriesen Hannover 39291 Potsdam Osnabrück Möckern 15848 Braunschweig Beeskow supply of fresh water also for 39264 15910 Lindau 14913 Schönwalde Bielefeld Magdeburg Jüterbog Münster electricity. Technical Reports Paderborn 03130Cottbus Hamm Spremberg In order to give you a comprehensive picture Göttingen Dortmund Halle Essen of our Activities in automation technology for Kassel Leipzig Düsseldorf Bavarian State Ministry of the environment, we have included reports Erfurt Dresden Köln Siegen Gera Aachen Chemnitz the and articles of already successfully comple- Bonn Zwickau Environment and Public Health: ted Projects for building automation, waste Koblenz Koblenz http://www.stmug.bayern.de/ processing and water softening in the Frankfurt Mainz subsequent pages. Darmstadt Würzburg Erlangen Renewable energies: Mannheim Heidelberg Nürnberg http://www.erneuerbare-energien.de/ Saarbrücken Authors: Norbert Schlimm, Gerhard Preißinger Heilbronn Karlsruhe Regensburg erneuerbare_energien/aktuell/4590.php Pforzheim Stuttgart IngolstadtIngolstadt Reutlingen Ulm Augsburg Federal Ministry for Environment: München http://www.bmu.de/allgemein/aktuell/160.php Freiburg Figure 1: Locations