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Yokogawa turbo-machinery control system for large-scale power station in Australia becomes fully operational
Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that a turbo-machinery control system installed by its Yokogawa Australia Pty. Ltd. subsidiary at the Eraring thermal power station became fully operational in December 2009.
Located 120 km north of Sydney, New South Wales, Eraring power station is one of Australia's largest. It is owned and operated by Eraring Energy, one of the country's leading electric power generation companies. The installed turbo-machinery control system is for the station's No. 4 turbine. Work will now commence on upgrading the control systems for the station's three remaining turbines.
The installation of the new turbo-machinery control system followed an expansion of the steam turbine's capacity from 660 to 720 MW. The existing mechanical hydraulic control system was replaced with Yokogawa's CENTUM(R) VP integrated production control system. For the turbine protection system, a Yokogawa ProSafe(R)-RS system was introduced that safely initiates an emergency shutdown upon detection of abnormal conditions.
Yokogawa's products are already used to control the boilers and auxiliary facilities at Eraring power station. With this upgrade of the turbo-machinery control system, all of the power station's principal facilities are now controlled by Yokogawa control systems. The integration of operations, maintenance, and parts supply at this station has significantly enhanced the efficiency of its operations.
Since the February 2008 release of the CENTUM VP integrated production control system with advanced functionality for turbo-machinery control applications, Yokogawa's turbo-machinery control business has grown steadily. Encouraged by this success, Yokogawa will focus on proposing plant-wide control solutions for power station turbines, boilers, and auxiliary facilities.
About Yokogawa
Yokogawa's global network of 19 manufacturing facilities and 85 companies spans 40 countries. Since its founding in 1915, the US$4 billion company has been engaged in cutting-edge research and innovation, securing more than 8,000 patents and registrations, including the world's first digital sensors for flow and pressure measurement. Industrial automation and control, test and measurement, information systems and industry support are the core businesses of Yokogawa. For more information about Yokogawa, please visit the company's web site at www.yokogawa.com.
About Yokogawa Europe B.V.
The European headquarters of Yokogawa were founded in Amersfoort in the Netherlands in 1982. Throughout Europe Yokogawa has its own sales, service and engineering operations. This dedicated network has been extended to Central and East Europe and Southern Africa to further enhance the coverage and support associated with serving the process control and automation market place. Yokogawa develops and produces flowmeters at Rota Yokogawa in Germany and liquid analysers and industrial safety systems in the Netherlands. In addition to this dedicated network of Yokogawa subsidiaries, a select organisation of Test & Measurement (T&M) subsidiaries and distributors is established in certain areas to support the specific customer needs of this continuously developing and specific market of T&M instrumentation.
About Yokogawa UK Ltd
Yokogawa UK Ltd., part of the global Yokogawa Corporation, is a supplier of enterprise technology solutions to the process, manufacturing and utility sectors. The company is a technology and market leader in instrumentation and control, and holds many key patents and national and international approvals. Yokogawa UK's offices are in Runcorn, Cheshire and High Wycombe.
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