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Freshly pressed orange juice from Brazil on the way to North America and Europe
Orange Sky Successful Teamwork

The Orange Sky is one of the rst ships transporting juice directly from the orange in a liquid state. Getting the ship t for this task was not only a technical challenge it was also dependent on an excellently functioning international management of the parties involved in the equipping Brazilian juice producer, Atlanship Ship Management Company, Lloyd Werft, Bremerhaven and Siemens.
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CASE STUDY
Global Player in Food and Beverage Industry
Whether nectar, orange juice drink or pure orange juice most orange juices you will nd in supermarkets are made of concentrate diluted with ltered water. A new term has recently been added to the range of orange juice products: NFC (not from concentrate). Directly pressed and lled printed on the pack, this indicates that the juice comes exclusively from the fruit, e.g. from oranges, and is not made from concentrate and is therefore an NFC drink. The largest quantities of NFC juices come from Florida and Brazil. There it is manufactured and exported all over the world by large companies. One of these companies is the Brazilian outt Cutrale. With more than 30 million trees, Cutrale is the worlds largest producer of citrus fruits. After the harvest, the citrus fruits
are processed in plants similar to reneries as concentrate or NFC. In the production of NFC the juice and the pulp are separated during pressing. The pulpless juice is then usually rst heated and then deep frozen as a preservative and nally loaded in a frozen state in refrigerator holds for shipping all over the world.
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... frozen juice isnt according to consumer opinion. Thats understandable because its quite probable that pulp from Florida is mixed with juice from Brazil during thawing. To meet the demand for even more genuine freshly pressed orange juice, Cutrale has decided to transport liquid orange juice on appropriately converted ships and to store it at suitable tank farms.
Cutrale, Brazil is the worlds biggest producer of citrus fruits
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Process automation on the Orange Sky

Two things are very important for transporting or storing fresh Links is also involved and integrates various motor switches and orange juice in the high-grade steel tanks. For one thing, the juice valves in the overall system. must be kept at an exactly dened low temperature. For another, the tank must be absolutely germ-free and may therefore have no contact at all with air or oxygen. This is guaranteed by TCP/IP blowing in nitrogen (N2). Both the temperature and the N2 pressure must be Redundant measured continuously (every second) and WinCC server regulated. An hourly report is printed automatically. Industrial Ethernet Cooling, pressure and temperature regulation and lling level measurement all take Control system place fully automatically. Every tank is tted with a Siemens Miltronics radar lling level meter, two Siemens pressure Simatic PCS 7 OLM transmitters (for measuring the lling level by the static pressure and measurement of Field instruments Field devices (pressure, temperature, DP/PA link the N2 pressure), a Siemens temperature flow measurement) transmitter and several ow meters, position controllers and switches. Profibus PA A Simatic PCS 7 process control system is OLM AS-I Network used. The communication between the DP/AS-i-link control system, cooling system control AS-i valves AS-I interface modules (Simatic S7-300) and the SCADA system (two redundant Simatic WinCC servers) is Drives taken care of by Industrial Ethernet. The OLM link to the rest of the periphery as well as Micromaster various drive systems (Micromaster) is made via Probus DP (partly in the optical Micromaster version), the link to the process instrumentation via Probus PA. The AS-Interface bus system connected to Probus via DP/AS-IProfibus DP fiber optic
The freighter May Oldendorff set out on its maiden voyage three years ago. In August 2001 the owners, Adriatic Reefer Corp. Inc., La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland (Management: Atlanship S.A., La Tour-dePeilz), bought the ship and converted it into a juice tanker which rst went into service in October 2002, now renamed Orange Sky. Ever since, the Orange Sky has been carrying the valuable juice from Santos, the So Paulo harbor, to the United States (Florida and New York) and in future will also be sailing to Europe (Rotterdam). The ship which still sails under Liberian ag (approx. 172 meters long, 27 meters wide and a draught of 9.7 meters) reaches a maximum speed of almost 15 knots with a performance of 9600 hp. Four of the 15 tanks are lled with liquid orange juice at the moment. The rest of the holds still contain deep frozen juice. To turn the freighter which used to carry grain into a tanker, a complete overhaul of the electrical installations was necessary in addition to the reconstruction. The conversion itself was done by Lloyds at their shipyard in Bremerhaven. Lloyds contracted Siemens Industrial Services Germany to plan, install and commission the electrical installations. To avoid expensive pasteurization processes, the juice must be stored in absolutely germ-free tanks. These must not only
be pre-cooled but must also be kept at a dened atmospheric pressure and temperature. Such a sensitive process requires an appropriately sophisticated process automation. The contract for the process automation on board the Orange Sky was awarded to the Process Solution Division of Siemens Energy & Automation (SE&A) in St. Louis in the United States (whereby the contracting company was not the Bremerhaven shipyard but the Swiss shipping company). SE&A had already provided the process automation for another tank farm for fresh orange juice in Newark. Apart from the American engineers, the experts for process instrumentation in Karlsruhe (see inset for technical details) were also involved. The general management for the process automation project was in the hands of Ingo Magura from SE&A, St. Louis.
tomers from different countries with different relationships to each other are involved, Corporate Account Manager Steve Appleton conrms. The function of a Corporate Account Manager as a stringpuller on the Siemens side has certainly paid off. The CAM knows the customers, opens their doors and can best judge who should or must be involved within the company. He can also give the customer or customers a general idea of the competencies and possibilities on site.
Global player with high efficiency

Siemens signicant involvement in the retrotting of the Orange Sky with these two projects electrical installation and process automation was not only due to their suitable, wide range of products and services, worldwide presence and their experience as a highly efficient global player also played an extremely important role. Certainly all the more so where as in the project described here different cus-
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Orange Sky Successful Teamwork

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As good as freshly pressed ...

Process automation on the Orange Sky

Global player with high efficiency

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motion world 1/2003

The Orange Sky, the worlds rst fresh juice tanker

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