Yokogawa nets major India power plant contract
9 May 2011
Tokyo – Yokogawa Electric Corp. has won an order from Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co. Ltd of South Korea to supply the control systems for a supercritical pressure coal-fired power plant that is being built in Raipur, central India, for Indian power company GMR Chhattisgarh Energy Pvt Ltd.
The Raipur supercritical pressure coal-fired power plant will have a total output of 1370 MW – two 685 MW units – and the first unit is scheduled to start operation in July 2013. The boilers in such thermal power plants require less thermal energy to evaporate water by bringing it above the critical pressure point (when gas starts to liquefy).
Yokogawa will provide: its Centum VP integrated production control system for the power plant’s boilers, turbines, and auxiliary facilities; ProSafe-RS safety instrumented system for detecting abnormal conditions and safely initiatin emergency shutdowns; PRM integrated device management software package for monitoring and online diagnosis of plant equipment; Exaquantum plant information management system; and engineering and installation services.
Yokogawa will also supply a plant operation training simulator that is being used in many plants, including the Yonghung power plant in South Korea.
The Japanese group said it won win the order due to the engineering capabilities of Yokogawa Electric Korea coupled with its track record in providing control systems for large-scale power plants in India.
Korean plant construction companies are expanding their business in the electric power market in emerging countries. In 2008 Yokogawa set up an organisation within Yokogawa Electric Korea that has been promoting the marketing of Yokogawa’s products and services to the power plant sector.
