2010 Jun: Issue 3 
After more than 50 years in process control, Ian Matthewson is still excited about new developments in the design and control of sugar mills and mineral processing plants.
Ian is an invaluable asset to MIPAC and our customers, providing practical Engineering for Process Control, particularly in the areas of mineral processing and sugar milling.
He first began his training at Courtaulds Aust. at Tomago N.S.W. in 1954. This organisation manufactured Rayon through a complicated chemical process utilising a high level of Regulatory Process Automation. After completing an Apprenticeship in 1959, Ian went to Courtaulds Central Chemical Research Unit in England. Whilst in England, he commenced Electrical Engineering studies.
Upon his return to Australia in 1961, he began a 27 year association with Foxboro. In 1965 he took over the Foxboro office in Mackay and for the next 23 years he managed the Queensland business for Foxboro. Not many people can rival Ian’s knowledge of process control in the Queensland sugar industry, and parts of Queenslands mineral industry.
In 1988, Ian formed his own company and provided contract Engineering services to Mount Isa Mines Instrument Services, (MIMIS). This involved Engineering and Commissioning Services in Australia, India, U.K. and New Guinea and Fiji.
Today, Ian’s knowledge of process control in Queensland’s sugar mills would be second to none.
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Ian's recent work in Mackay will help Mackay Sugar’s Racecourse Mill turn waste product into saleable energy in a Co-Generation project:
Mackay Sugar is building a $120 million cogeneration power plant that will have the capacity to generate one third of the Mackay region’s electricity requirements from bagasse (sugar cane fibre waste).The project involves the replacement of traditional boilers, designed to incinerate bagasse, with a more efficient high pressure boiler and a new steam turbine generator, capable of generating 36 MW. While providing power and steam for the Racecourse Mill and Refinery, it will also allow for the export of 27 MW electricity into the national grid. Ian is leading MIPAC’s involvement and is responsible for the Design and Control Logic. Source article: ecogeneration
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