- Single biggest order ever for Siemens
- Extra capacity of 16.4 gigawatts from natural gas and wind power plants
- Up to 600 wind turbines and rotor blade manufacturing facility
- Trainings and jobs for up to 1,000 people
- Orders expand on memorandums of understanding announced at EEDC
Siemens has signed contracts worth €8 billion for high-efficiency natural gas-fired power plants and wind power installations that will boost Egypt’s power generation capacity by more than 50 percent compared to the currently installed base. The projects will add an additional 16.4 gigawatts (GW) to Egypt’s national grid to support the country’s rapid economic development and meet its growing population’s demand for power.
The signing ceremony was witnessed today in Berlin, Germany by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel. The orders expand on the memorandums of understanding announced at the Egypt Economic Development Conference (EEDC) held in Sharm El Sheik in March 2015.
“With these unprecedented contracts, Siemens and its partners are supporting Egypt’s economic development by using highly efficient natural gas and renewable technologies to create an affordable, reliable and sustainable energy mix for the country’s future,” said Joe Kaeser, President and CEO of Siemens AG. “The Egyptian people can count on Siemens. This was true more than 150 years ago when Siemens first started working in Egypt, and it remains our commitment today at this historic signing.”
Together with local Egyptian partners Elsewedy Electric and Orascom Construction, Siemens will supply on a turnkey basis three natural gas-fired combined cycle power plants, each with a capacity of 4.8GW, for a total combined capacity of 14.4GW. Each of the three power plants –- Beni Suef, Burullus and New Capital – will be powered by eight Siemens H-Class gas turbines, selected for their high output and record-breaking efficiency.
The plants will add power to the grid in stages. Plans call for an initial 4.4GW to go online before summer 2017 and the full 14.4GW to become available 38 months after the financing has closed and advance payments have been received. Once completed, the three power plants will be the largest in the world.
Siemens will also deliver up to 12 wind farms in the Gulf of Suez and West Nile areas, comprising around 600 wind turbines and an installed capacity of 2GW. The company will build a rotor blade manufacturing facility in Egypt’s Ain Soukhna region, which will provide training and employment for up to 1,000 people. The facility is scheduled to go into operation in the second half of 2017.
Siemens’ Financial Services Division (SFS) has structured a financing package for Siemens’ role in the contracts, including a tailored guarantee concept. The envisaged loan facilities, supported to a large extent by Export Credit Agency coverage in Germany and Denmark, will be provided by international and regional banks.
Siemens has been doing business in Egypt since 1859 and has maintained a continuous presence in the country since opening its first office in Cairo in 1901. The company’s technology has been implemented in the Attaka, Nubaria, Talkha, Damietta, Sidi Krir, Cairo West, Ayoun Mousa, Midelec and El Kureimat power plants. Siemens is also a key technology supplier for major projects in the mobility, healthcare and manufacturing sectors.
Source : Siemens
Emerson Process Management, a global business of Emerson (NYSE: EMR), has won an order from NTPC Limited to provide automation technologies and expertise for two new 800-megawatt supercritical generating units at the Darlipali Super Thermal Power Station in the Sundergarh District, Odisha, India.
The new units will help meet the energy needs of the region’s growing population. Unit 1 commissioning is expected in December 2017, with Unit 2 to follow three months later.
“Supercritical technologies boost the efficiency of coal-based electricity generation while reducing carbon and other emissions, but the high temperatures and pressures involved make them more challenging to control,” explained Dr. Amit Paithankar, managing director, Emerson Process Management, India. “Our automation specialists have proven expertise and our Ovation™ control system is in more than 300 of these complex units worldwide. We welcome this opportunity to apply that experience to these important national assets.”
Emerson project teams will engineer, install and commission Ovation systems to monitor and control each unit’s supercritical boiler and critical balance-of-plant processes and equipment. Emerson will also provide its Rosemount® Analytical online steam water analysis system and continuous emissions monitoring system, Rosemount pressure and level transmitters, and additional instrumentation.
Emerson previously worked with NTPC Limited, which is India’s largest power utility, to automate units at the Sipat, Simhadri, and Tanda power stations and is currently carrying out projects at several other sites.
“We appreciate NTPC’s ongoing confidence in our people and technologies,” said Bob Yeager, president of Emerson Process Management’s Power & Water Solutions. “Our teams will make the most of everything they’ve learned on previous projects to help NTPC meet the region’s growing demand for electricity.”
About Emerson Process Management
Emerson Process Management (www.EmersonProcess.com), an Emerson business, is a leader in helping businesses automate their production, processing and distribution in the chemical, oil and gas, refining, pulp and paper, power, water and wastewater treatment, mining and metals, food and beverage, life sciences and other industries. The company combines superior products and technology with industry-specific engineering, consulting, project management and maintenance services. Its brands include Ovation™, DeltaV™, Fisher®, Bettis™, Micro Motion®, and Rosemount®.
About Emerson
Emerson (NYSE: EMR), based in St. Louis, Missouri (USA), is a global leader in bringing technology and engineering together to provide innovative solutions for customers in industrial, commercial, and consumer markets around the world. The company is comprised of five business segments: Process Management, Industrial Automation, Network Power, Climate Technologies, and Commercial & Residential Solutions. Sales in fiscal 2014 were $24.5 billion. For more information, visit Emerson.com.
Source : http://www.emerson.com/en-in/News/Pages/Emerson-Automates-NTPC-Limited-Power-Plant.aspx
OMRON Corporation announced on May 7 that it is expanding product lineups of slim and compact control devices altogether and starting to provide solutions which contribute to downsizing manufacturing equipment and control panels and to bringing total costs down. To be more precise, OMRON is releasing DIN-rail-mountable uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs) S8BA, which are the smallest in their class, and short-bodied pushbutton switches A22N in addition to the slim industrial relays G2RV and G3RV which are already available for sale. Besides Zuken of the E3 series and EPLAN Software & Service of EPLAN, OMRON is establishing a relationship of cooperation with Wacom Co. in the ECAD dio field for the electrical control CAD, the system design support tool for control panels and the like.
OMRON has one of the world’s largest product lineups of control devices including I/O devices and safety devices. They are used at manufacturing sites worldwide and installed in control panels to control manufacturing equipment and whole production systems. Expanding slim and compact product lineups is an approach to achieve downsizing control panels and their space-saving design, which is one of the top priority issues for manufacturers.
OMRON focuses on the development of slim and compact control devices and supports design simulation of parts arrangement through the use of the electrical control CAD in cooperation with the partners. Therefore it contributes to downsizing devices and bringing total costs down by reducing the size of control panels by more than 20%.
In recent years, manufacturing lines such as of automobiles have been expected to be compact and capable of frequent setup changes due to the increase in multiproduct variable quantity production. In the field of digital equipment, multiproduct production has been increasing and facilities and devices have been downsized while the rapid production launch and effectiveness of investment recovery become increasingly important due to reduction in product cycle time.
As a result, along with downsizing devices and control panels, their manufacturers are required to maximize the space in panels in order to cope flexibly with specification changes. Control panel manufacturers’ urgent challenges are to shorten time required to design and produce control panels and to lower transportation costs through downsizing.
OMRON has engaged in producing slim and compact control devices such as temperature controllers, timers, and safety relay units by using technologies of its unique thermal design simulation in order to fulfill manufacturers’ needs for downsizing control panels and their space-saving design.
Under the development of ICT utilization at manufacturing sites and the increase in demand for UPSs, OMRON has reduced the size and weight of the new UPSs S8BA to be able to install them in control panels. Moreover, it contributes to downsizing an entire control panel by reducing the thickness of devices installed in front of a panel such as pushbutton switches A22N whose bodies are shortened by 30% compared with our previous product.
In addition, OMRON provides 3D CAD information as parts libraries for electrical-control-CAD manufacturers in and outside Japan in order for the information of over 5,000 control devices to be used on the electrical control CAD. OMRON also develops its unique services to make designing more efficient by taking advantage of the wide range of product lineups from general-purpose equipment which is essential to control devices to the most advanced equipment.
OMRON continues to provide products and services which address a variety of challenges such as downsizing control devices encountered in control panel production and to bring manufacturing innovation in concert with other manufacturers based on its wide variety of product lineups.
New Products and their Features
Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPSs) S8BA Series
This highly compact UPS will be released in the most challenging Japan market first. Global available range is planned to be released at the earliest opportunity. The easy DIN-rail mountable, DC-DC type UPS is ideal countermeasure for momentary voltage drops and power failures of industrial computers (IPCs) and controllers. They secure full functional reliability of systems by backing up the supply of 24 VDC power source for a guaranteed period of time. The use of highly efficient lithium-ion batteries enables the UPSs to be outstanding compact and lightweight combined with an industry grade batteries life time. Innovative time saving connection is realized by push-in terminal block used for the I/O interface. The S8BA UPS is equipped with advanced set of communication interfaces (USB, RS-232C) and offers I/O signals to allow easy realization of interlock shutdowns with IPCs and controllers.
Specifications
- Output capacity: 120 W, 240 W, 360 W, or 480 W (4 models)
- I/O voltage: 24 VDC
- Backup time: 6 min. (rated load)
- Dimensions: H 100 mm/D 100 mm/W 94 mm (120 W), 148 mm (240 W), 270 mm (360 W, 480 W)
Pushbutton Switches A22N Series
These pushbutton switches are for control panels, switchboards and operation panels on industrial equipment. The body is shortened by 30% compared with our previous product. The short body with multiple contacts contributes to compact and slim control panels. These switches have the lock mechanism; just slide the lever to mount the operation part and perform two actions to unlock the part with the safety design. The products are suitable for global use with a wide variety to choose from such as being compatible with panel-hole diameters of 22, 25, or 30 mm, shapes and colors of the buttons, LED lighting voltages and safety standards.
Specifications
- Product type: pushbutton switch (lighted/non-lighted models), selector switch (lighted/non-lighted models), key selector switch, and indicator lamp
- Bezel: resin, metal color (2 types)
- Button color: red, green, yellow, white, blue, orange, milky white (only when it is not lit)
- LED voltage: 6, 12, 24 VAC/DC, 100/110/120 and 200/220/230/240 VAC
- Safety standards: cULus listed, TUV, CE, CCC
- Degree of protection: IP66, NEMA 13
Products That Contribute to Downsizing Control Panels Along with These New Products:
Slim I/O Relays G2RV Series / Solid-state Relays G3RV Series
Slim I/O Relays G2RV and G3RV have a slim shape of 6.2 mm width and the thickness is reduced by 70% compared with our previous product, which give flexibility in designing control panels. The maximum switching current of contacts is 6 A for the general purpose relays and 3 A for the solid-state relays. Relays with latching levers that permit easy operation checks, relays for microload switching with gold-plating contacts, and solid-state relays (SSR) with output to achieve highly frequent switching at high speed are available to deal with a wide range of applications at manufacturers. The use of push-in terminals for connection enables the time required for wiring to be reduced by 25 seconds max per terminal compared with conventional screw terminals (or round terminals). The G2RV and G3RV have been sold globally, mainly in Europe, more than four million units since the 2006 fiscal year.
Specifications
- Contact form G2RV: SPDT / G3RV: 1 a (1 element)
- Rated load
G2RV (resistive load): 250 VAC/6 A, 30 VDC/6 A, 36 VAC/50 mA, 30 VDC/50 mA
G3RV: 100 to 240 VAC/2 A, 5 to 24 VDC/3A - Dimensions: W 6.2 mm / D 97.4 mm / H 106.7 mm
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won orders from Hitachi Zosen Inova, the Swiss-based waste-to-energy engineering, procurement and construction contractor, to supply a complete electrical and control solution for the new Severnside Energy Recovery Centre in England and a waste-to-energy plant in Poznan, Poland.
The waste-to-energy industry, where electricity and heat are derived from household and commercial waste, is a growing market. On the one hand, rising populations and urbanization are leading to more waste, while on the other landfill options are diminishing. Between 1990 and 2010, worldwide municipal solid waste volume increased from 700 million tons to 1.3 billion tons and is set to reach 2.2 billion tons by 2025. Using the waste-to-energy process, one ton of municipal solid waste could supply up to 800 kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity.
“We are pleased to support these waste-to-energy projects that help lower environmental impact and support our vision for a ‘better world,’ ” said Claudio Facchin, president of ABB’s Power Systems business. “Our technology offering and domain expertise enables us to support these projects across the value chain from engineering and project execution to life cycle support.”
“We are pleased to have chosen ABB for these projects as they share our value to deliver sustainable solutions for a better environment,” said Franz-Josef Mengede, chief executive officer of Hitachi Zosen Inova.
ABB’s advanced and fully integrated control system, based on its Symphony® Plus platform, allows for rapid adjustment of combustion conditions for the safest and most efficient operation. This process reduces the volume of waste significantly and lowers pollution and dangers from the flue gases. ABB will deliver the solutions in pre-assembled, factory-tested modules to facilitate rapid delivery and easy installation and all critical equipment will meet the highest levels of reliability and availability.
The West London Waste Authority is building the Severnside facility as it seeks to shift waste from being put into landfills. Poznan’s project is part of a broader effort by cities in the country to comply with new national and European environmental standards on waste disposal.
The Severnside facility will treat up to 400,000 metric tons of municipal solid waste a year, with an installed electrical capacity of 37 megawatts (MW), enough to power 50,000 UK homes. The Poznan plant has a capacity of 18 MW derived from 210,000 metric tons of waste that would otherwise be buried in landfills. Both plants are expected to start operation in 2016.
ABB has supplied electrical and automation solutions for hundreds of waste-to-energy plants worldwide. These solutions enable some of the world’s largest cities including Berlin, London, Vienna and Singapore as well as small and mid-sized municipalities, to efficiently, cost-effectively and safely generate renewable energy from waste.
About ABB
ABB (www.abb.com) is a leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility, industry, and transport and infrastructure customers to improve their performance while lowering environmental impact. The ABB Group of companies operates in roughly 100 countries and employs about 140,000 people.
Source :http://www.abb.com/cawp/seitp202/4ED7C98952830E6CC1257E57002F254C.aspx
In today’s industrial environments, progress is driving more change than ever. New challenges are arising, as well as new opportunities.
We know today that the industrial plants of tomorrow will be smarter — better connected, more efficient, and highly collaborative. But they must also be safer and better protected against potential threats.
When I talk to our customers in various industries, I pay special attention to their concerns. Natural disasters, cyber attacks, equipment failures, human errors ― these all pose real threats to the profitability, and in some cases the survival, of industrial businesses. No wonder that our customers take the risks so seriously.
So do we. At Schneider Electric we are continuously working to help customers stay ahead of their concerns.
Here’s one example. Last year we completed the acquisition and integration of Invensys, a renowned engineering and technology company whose portfolio included the Triconex safety and control system, the #1 offer in the process and safety market. As a result, we offer best-in-class safety controllers, software applications, and full life-cycle services that protect operational integrity in thousands of industrial sites.
To illustrate the direct impact of proven process safety on industry, I often talk about plant managers. These people play a crucial ― and often stressful ― role in modern manufacturing. The consequences of their individual decisions can be felt throughout even the biggest manufacturer.
Triconex empowers industrial plant staff, making their work easier and less stressful. It combines technology, advanced applications, and life-cycle management to help plant managers anticipate a safety incident as opposed to simply responding when an incident occurs.
I believe that the future belongs to those industrial companies that excel in mitigating risk. When these companies use proven safety technology, they achieve ambitious performance goals and protect their operations. In the long term, these companies will help to drive sustainable progress and capture even more amazing opportunities.
Source : http://blog.schneider-electric.com/industrial-software/2015/06/04/my-vision-of-a-safer-industrial-future/
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