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Control contract signed for Indian power utility
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Yokogawa Europe - Industrial Automation product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Oct 5, 2007
Yokogawa India is providing instrumentation systems for the boilers and other utilities of three power generators in Bihar, India.
Yokogawa India has received a contract from National Thermal Power (NTPC), India's largest power utility, to supply an automation and control system for a new supercritical coal-fired power plant project in Bihar state.
This contract is estimated to be worth US $11.8 million.
When completed, the Barth supercritical coal-fired power plant will generate a total of 1980MW (three units of 660MW each), making it the largest thermal power plant in Bihar.
Unit 1 is planned to start operation in October 2009.
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.
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 infra-red gas analysers.
As part of its full turnkey project solution, Yokogawa India is also providing engineering, installation, and commissioning services.
NTPC selected Yokogawa because of its track record in the installation of control systems for coal-fired and captive power plants in the Indian power market.
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