CONTRACTS IN BRIEF
15 Jan 2000
Brotherhood's business boom Peterborough-based Peter Brotherhood, the compressor and turbine manufacturer, has won its largest ever contract, worth over £8 million for several reciprocating compressors for a Russian refinery. This follows a successful 1997 during which the company clocked up its then biggest order for a £5.6 million steam turbine-based cogeneration system.
Power station success for Syseca
Systems integrator Syseca has installed its Advanced Process Management System (APMS) in three major UK power stations under contracts worth a total of £4.5 million. Developed specifically for National Power, APMS has gone into the Eggborough, Didcot A and Aberthaw stations.
China clay orders from Malaysia
Associated Kaolin Industries (AKI) has awarded a $50 000 contract to Webster Griffin to supply and install packaging machinery at its plant in Tapah, Malaysia. With three separate production plants at the Tapah site, AKI supplies around 90 000tpa of kaolin or 'china clay' for use in the paper, ceramics, paints, plastics and palm-oil industries.
Taking safe control offshore
Destined for the £1.6 billion Elgin/Franklin Development Project in the UK sector of the North Sea, an advanced Integrated Control and Safety System (ICSS) from ABB Industrial Systems will provide integration of process control, emergency shutdown and fire and gas monitoring for two 'not normally manned' platforms and for a central complex platform. Operated from the Elgin platform, the ICSS system will accommodate 23 000 I/O points across the various parts of the field.
Q jumps into coal-fired station
Mitsubishi Electric has won orders from ScottishPower for a number of its Q Series control systems and A Series PLCs to go into Longannet, one of Europe's largest coal-fired power stations. The first of the systems controls mill output dampers, secondary air dampers, burners and monitoring of meagre temperatures and burner diagnostics for unit 1 of the 2400MW power station. The Q Series is designed to bridge the gap between PLCs and DCSs.
