Invensys for coal-fired power plants in Chile

London - Maire Tecnimont Group  has signed up Invensys Process Systems (IPS) to supply and install its InFusion enterprise control system technology at the Colbun Coronel and Endesa Bocamina II coal power plants in Coronel, Chile. Each of the new plant's power islands will be made up of one steam generator and one steam turbine generator block. The plants will have an output of about 370 megawatts each.

IPS Italia will supply the project manager, project director, hardware specialist and technical leader, while IPS Chile will supply the technical leader and application engineers. Initial application work will be carried out by the team in Chile, who will then move to the Tecnimont office in Torino, Italy, to develop final applications alongside Tecnimont's own project staff

"We expect a significant improvement of the efficiency of the design and implementation of the control system through the cooperation of a strong Chilean component alongside the Italian one within the IPS team and the integration of their team with our own during the critical phase of software development," said a representative of Tecnimont's automation engineering department.