Patent ID: 6865448

Claim:
Outfit for the construction of several industrial installations for the processing of industrial fluids, to be delivered to users, comprising: several assemblies of several functional modules the functional modules being adapted each to perform an elementary physical operation on at least one said industrial fluid, wherein, each functional module comprises at least one fluid inlet and at least one fluid outlet for the passage of said industrial fluid, as well as a local management unit controlling the operation of the functional module to perform the associated elementary operation, the local management unit comprising a communication interface, all the functional modules of a same assembly are adapted to perform the same elementary operation on said industrial fluid, and are of standard construction, such that the specifications for the inlets, the outlets and the communication interfaces of all the functional modules of a same assembly are analogous, and the functional modules are adapted to be associated functionally with each other by their inlets and outlets in industrial installations, so as to ensure successive elementary operations on said industrial fluid, said outfit moreover comprises, for each industrial installation, a single central guidance unit, adapted to guide the associated industrial installation, by addressing guidance orders to the local management units of the standard functional modules of the industrial installation, via communication interfaces connected to the central guidance unit by a communication network.