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PITTSBURGH (October 26, 2004) — Emerson
Process Management, a business of Emerson (NYSE: EMR), announced
today that it has won a contract to automate the new 780- megawatt
Wangting Combined Cycle Power Plant.
Emerson will install its innovative
PlantWeb ® digital plant architecture
at the Wangting plant, which is owned by China Huadian Corporation and located
in Suzhou City in China’s Jiangsu Province. The two‑unit plant
will provide additional power to China’s eastern provinces, which are
developing faster than the existing power supply.
Emerson is introducing PlantWeb
to the China power generation controls market, which is estimated to total
$120 million annually, with projected growth of around 15 percent per year.
Current planning calls for construction of 500 new power units by 2010.
New to the China power market, PlantWeb has proven to deliver
significant savings in construction and engineering of new projects,
as well as operations efficiency across industries throughout
the world.
Emerson's digital automation of the Wangting plant
will include deployment of FOUNDATION fieldbus technology that
saves design, wiring, termination, and space cost by replacing
bundles of individual wires with single wire busses. The
single wire busses carry significantly more information about
the process and equipment than traditional systems, enabling
efficiencies in operation and maintenance.
Emerson's Power & Water Solutions industry center will coordinate
and supervise the project, which represents the company’s
first Asia-Pacific application of FOUNDATION fieldbus with its
Ovation® Expert Control System.
For Emerson customers, PlantWeb
is the blueprint for implementing a comprehensive, digital solution
that delivers installed cost savings and operations savings.
This automated solution delivers asset management, process control
and management execution through intelligent field devices and
critical plant assets, standards and scalable platforms, and
integrated modular software. Throughout the plant, control and
monitoring of the process is performed by intelligent field devices
that deliver predictive diagnostic information to AMS™ Suite:
Intelligent Device Manager software within the Ovation system.
At
Wangting, Emerson will install a redundant Fast Ethernet network,
eight redundant controllers (four per unit), 10 Ovation workstations
(five per unit), HART intelligent field devices, Rosemount® Foundation
fieldbus temperature devices, and AMS Suite: Intelligent Device
Manager. In all, the Ovation system will manage over 2,400 I/O
points and will provide data acquisition and control, including
sequence of events, electrical control, main plant control and
balance of plant control. The units are expected to be operational
in June 2005.
"We selected Emerson because its proven PlantWeb digital
automation approach differentiates the organization from its
competitors,” said Feng Guo Rong,
China Huadian Group. “We were looking for a control system that would enable
the plant to provide clean, efficient energy and comply with future environmental
regulations. We found that in Emerson.”
"We’ve experienced firsthand in other industries
how the early adoption of PlantWeb can dramatically impact construction
costs and follow-on operations efficiency,” said John Berra,
president of Emerson Process Management. “Emerson
is committed to helping the power generation industry adopt this approach. This
project is significant because it indicates China’s growing confidence
in bus-enabled technologies like Ovation and PlantWeb.”
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 power, water and wastewater treatment, chemical,
oil and gas, refining, pulp and paper, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and
other industries.
Emerson's Power & Water Solutions division (www.emersonprocess-powerwater.com)
is a global supplier of advanced distributed process control
and information systems. The Pittsburgh-based company is a recognized
leader in developing plant-wide process control solutions for
the power generation, water treatment and wastewater treatment
industries. Power & Water Solutions plays a key role in the
Emerson mission of combining superior products and technology
with industry-specific engineering, consulting, project management
and maintenance services. Emerson brands include: PlantWeb®;
Ovation®; SmartProcess®; Fisher®; MicroMotion®;
Rosemount®; Daniel®; DeltaV™ ; and AMS™ Suite.
About Emerson
St. Louis-based Emerson (www.gotoemerson.com)
is a global leader in bringing technology and engineering together
to provide innovative solutions to customers in process control;
electronics and telecommunications; industrial automation; heating,
ventilating and air conditioning; and appliance and tools. Sales
in fiscal 2003 were $14 billion.
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Ovation, SureService, SmartProcess, PlantWeb, Fisher, Micro
Motion, Rosemount, Daniel, AMS™ Suite and DeltaV™ are
marks of Emerson Process Management. Other marks are the property
of their respective owners.
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