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Yokogawa FGD project for Romanian power plant

A Yokogawa Europe - Industrial Automation product story
Edited by the Processingtalk editorial team Jul 25, 2008

A Yokogawa consortium will supply electrical equipment and instrumentation for the flue gas desulphurisation systems at the Turceni thermal power plant, Romania's largest power station

Yokogawa in Austria has received an order from Austrian Energy and Environment, a major plant manufacturer, to supply electrical equipment and instrumentation for the flue gas desulphurisation systems at the Turceni thermal power plant in Romania.

This contract is estimated to be worth 26 million euros.

In this consortium, the Yokogawa Austrian subsidiary will be in charge of control and instrumentation and overall project management, and its Austrian partners Siemens Elin and Elin EBG Motoren will respectively provide electrical equipment and motors for various types of blowers.

The Turceni power plant, located in Gorj county in southwest Romania, is the country's largest coal-fired power plant.

With a total capacity of 2,310 MW (330 MW x 7 units), it generates 10% of the total electricity used in Romania.

After joining the EU in 2007, Romania is required to bring its power plant sulphur dioxide (SO2) emissions into compliance with the EU environmental standards by 2011.

Power plants thus have a very tight deadline for achieving this reduction, and will not be allowed to continue operation if they fail to comply.

Given this situation, the Turceni Thermal Power Plant Pollution Abatement Project has elected to make use of a yen-denominated ODA loan from the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) to finance the installation of flue gas desulphurisation systems at the four facilities that it operates.

For this project, Yokogawa will provide its Centum VP integrated production control system; field devices such as DPharp EJX pressure/differential pressure transmitters, pH analysers, and temperature transmitters; the Plant Resource Manager (PRM) integrated device management tool; and the Exaquantum plant information management system.

These products and systems will be delivered between 2009 and 2012, and will enter operation between the second half of 2010 and 2013, depending on power generation equipment requirements.

Yokogawa won this contract because they are established as the largest provider of control systems and technology for industrial flue gas desulphurisation in the Japanese market, where flue gas desulphurisation technologies are state-of-the-art.

Also, Yokogawa had recently won a similar contract, providing electrical and instrumentation equipment for the flue gas desulphurisation facilities at a plant in a neighbouring country (Bulgaria), and this project is going well.

Yokogawa has a commitment to continue all efforts possible to protect the environment, through contributing to projects such as this one in Romania.

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