AVR
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VR is a waste processing
to maintain and less able to respond to
Europe. Mitsubishi Electric has built an
company based in
AVR’s requirements.
enviable reputation for the qual- ity and
the Netherlands.
Originally founded by 23
municipalities in the Rotterdam area,
since its privatisation in the 1990s AVR has
grown to become the largest company
of its kind in the country, with waste and
power plants in Rozenburg and Duiven
and trans-shipment stations in The Hague,
Utrecht and Rotterdam.
Now a part of the Hong Kong-based
Cheung Kong Infrastructure (CKI) group,
AVR supplies industry and approx. 160.000
of households in the surrounding regions
with sustainable energy generated from
waste. AVR processed 1.3 million tonnes of
Dutch solid waste in 2014 and additionally
imported nearly half a million tonnes of
waste from the United Kingdom. Besides
AVR operates an industrial waste water
treatment facility, a thermal paperpulp
facility and a waste wood power plant.
Background
In 2015 AVR decided to upgrade the
control room of its waste incineration
plant at Duiven. The original system, which
featured a video wall with mercury lamplit cubes and a Jupiter control- ler, had
worked well, but was becoming expensive
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All supervisory control and data
acquisition (SCADA) from the plant’s
systems was displayed on the cube wall,
but the feeds from more than 20 CCTV
cameras around the site were shown on
separate LCD monitors installed at the
top of the cube wall. AVR needed a better
solution, one which would allow them to
have SCADA and CCTV sharing the same
screen. The original systems inte- grator, Bil
nger Mauell BV, was asked to implement
the project. Bil nger designs, operates and
maintains plants and buildings for the
energy sector and has long experience of
working with power station and process
control technology, automation systems for power distribution in electricity
transmission grids, and the design and
furnishing of control rooms with state-ofthe art visualisation systems.
Problem & Solution
reliability of its display systems.
Due to the complicated and diverse
nature of AVR’s waste pro- cessing,
the control room upgrade had to
not only be right first time, but easy
for operators to understand and a
signi cant im- provement on what
had been in place before.
Installation & Results
Along with its own cameras, graphics, and
SCADA equipment, Bil nger decided to use
Mitsubishi’s 78 Series WUXGA resolu- tion
62” front-access Digital Light Processing
(DLP) video wall cubes to work with its
own IP-based X-Omnium processor.
Mitsubishi Electric’s 78 Series incorporates
the latest cut- ting-edge technologies to
deliver superior, superior, high resolution
picture quality and reliability. Mitsubishi’s
proprietary automatic colour space control
Bil nger criteria for the display technology
compensates for any colour and brightness
employed were that it should be high-
di erences between individual cubes
performance, easy to maintain, cost e
in anarray, while the digital graduation
ective and capable of being completely
circuitry adjusts brightness level at the
installed and working within a short space
edges of each cube’s screen to ensure
of time. In the end, the choice was clear:
complete brightness uniformity in a multi-
its long- term partner across Europe, the
con guration display.
Middle East and Africa, Mit- subishi Electric