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News Release from: Yokogawa Europe - Industrial Automation | Subject: Bihar plant
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Team on 08 October 2007
Controls for supercritical coal-fired
power plant
Yokogawa has received a contract for the supply of a control system for the supercritical coal-fired power plant to be built in Bihar, India by the National Thermal Power Corporation
The National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) is India's largest power utility, and Yokogawa is to supply the automation and control system for a new supercritical coal-fired power plant project in Bihar state, in an $11.8M contract When completed, the Barth supercritical coal-fired power plant will generate a total of 1980 MW (three units of 660 MW each), making it the largest thermal power plant in Bihar
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 25 Jul 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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A supercritical coal-fired power plant employs a technology that causes fluids to evaporate before they reach the boiling point, thereby reducing the consumption of thermal energy.
When water is pressurised beyond the critical pressure point, steam is produced to drive a turbine.
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Because this technology has good thermal efficiency, many people believe that supercritical technology will eventually be the dominant type of coal-fired power plant.
India's power industry has been straining to keep up with the country's recent economic growth, and the expansion of power generation capacity has become a top priority.
Consequently, NTPC plans to add 11GW in capacity through the construction of new coal-fired power plants by 2012.
The Barth power plant is one of these planned facilities.
In this project, Yokogawa India is providing instrumentation systems for the boilers and other utilities of three power generators.
These include the Centum CS 3000 R3 distributed control system, PRM plant resource manager, DPharp EJA pressure/differential pressure transmitters, and IR8A infrared gas analysers.
As part of its full turnkey project solution, Yokogawa India is also providing engineering, installation, and commissioning services.
NTPC selected Yokogawa for this project because of the extensive track record that Yokogawa India has acquired over the past 20 years in the installation of control systems for various coal-fired and captive power plants in the Indian power market.
The Yokogawa India power plant automation experience, expertise, and engineering capability are very highly regarded by NTPC.
Yokogawa has set its sights on becoming the front-runner in the global IA market and is making a strategic effort to strengthen its activities worldwide.
Taking advantage of the momentum generated by the Barth power project success, Yokogawa will actively pursue further orders both for the growing market in India and for power plant automation systems.
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