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    Yokogawa to Supply Control for Supercritical Thermal Power Plant

    May 19, 2014
    Yokogawa Electric will provide control systems and more to the Jeddah South project, Saudi Arabia’s first supercritical oil-fired thermal power plant.
    The Jeddah South Thermal Power Plant in Saudi Arabia
    The Jeddah South Thermal Power Plant in Saudi Arabia

    Saudi Arabia is constructing its first supercritical thermal power plant—which are highly efficient and produce fewer greenhouse gases than conventional power plants. EPC contractor Hyundai Heavy Industries has selected Yokogawa Electric to supply control systems, safety instrumented systems, analysis systems and other products for the first stage of the Jeddah South supercritical oil-fired thermal power plant project.

    Stage 1 of this project, being built by the state-owned Saudi Electricity Co., involves construction of four 723 MW units producing a total of 2,892 MW. Unit 1 is scheduled to start operation in 2017.

    For each of the four units, Yokogawa will supply a Centum VP R5 integrated production control system for the control of the boiler and its auxiliary facilities; PK200 current-to-pneumatic converters; a liquid analysis system consisting of conductivity, pH and residual chlorine analyzers; and a duct gas analysis system consisting of oxygen, infrared gas, and TDLS200 tunable diode laser analyzers.

    Yokogawa Saudi Arabia, a subsidiary of Yokogawa Middle East & Africa, will be responsible for the engineering and commissioning of the distributed control systems (DCSs), safety instrumented systems (SISs) and plant information management systems (PIMSs), key components of the integrated production control systems. Yokogawa Electric and Yokogawa Electric Korea will be responsible for the engineering and delivery of the current-to-pneumatic converters and the analysis systems. 

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    Aaron Hand | Editor-in-Chief, ProFood World

    Aaron Hand has three decades of experience in B-to-B publishing with a particular focus on technology. He has been with PMMI Media Group since 2013, much of that time as Executive Editor for Automation World, where he focused on continuous process industries. Prior to joining ProFood World full time in late 2020, Aaron worked as Editor at Large for PMMI Media Group, reporting for all publications on a wide variety of industry developments, including advancements in packaging for consumer products and pharmaceuticals, food and beverage processing, and industrial automation. He took over as Editor-in-Chief of ProFood World in 2021. Aaron holds a B.A. in Journalism from Indiana University and an M.S. in Journalism from the University of Illinois.
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