A key initiative at Abitibi Bowater – Fort Frances division is to reduce lime production variability and remove the production bottleneck around the kiln area. In pursuit of this goal, Fort Frances bought Matrikon’s Model-based Predictive Control (MPC) system to provide an overall balanced and optimized control of their Kraft mill lime kiln, one of their most energy-intensive process areas.
Read this case study and find out how Abitibi Bowater used the MPC system to realize significant benefits to improved process stability and production throughput.