Mexico power plant switches to Emerson
1 Mar 2011
Valladolid, Mexico – Emerson is replacing gas and steam turbine controls, as well as balance of plant (BOP) controls, at the Felipe Carrillo Puerto power plant in Valladolid. The retrofit is to for completion in April.
The 220-MW, 2x1 combined-cycle plant is owned by Comisíon Federal de Electricidad (CFE). The plant’s existing Siemens controls had been in use since the plant began commercial operation in the early 1990s.
By replacing these controls with Emerson’s PlantWeb digital plant architecture with Ovation control technology, CFE expects to generate electricity more reliably, thereby meeting the region’s growing demand for power.
The Ovation system will manage more than 6,000 I/O points - performing data acquisition and directly control the plant’s two Siemens V.84.2 gas turbines, Kraftwerk Siemens steam turbine, gas and steam turbine hydraulic governors, steam bypass, turbogenerator, two B&W heat recovery steam generators and balance of plant equipment and systems.
Emerson is supplying 11 Ovation controllers, 15 workstations, its AMS Suite predictive maintenance software, 30 Rosemount 3051 transmitters and a UPS system.
