GE Advanced Control System to Play Key Role in Renovation of Egyptian Power Plant.Business Editors ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 23, 2001 First International Retrofit of SPEEDTRONIC(TM) Mark VI non-GE Turbine Controls A 600-megawatt steam turbine Steam turbine A machine for generating mechanical power in rotary motion from the energy of steam at temperature and pressure above that of an available sink. By far the most widely used and most powerful turbines are those driven by steam. power plant near Alexandria, Egypt will be the site of the first international retrofit project featuring the SPEEDTRONIC(TM) Mark VI turbine control system, GE Energy Services, a GE Power Systems business, announced today. Under a contract of more than US$2.7 million, received from Honeywell Industrial Automation & Control, GE will supply new control systems for four 150-megawatt Alstom steam turbines at the Egyptian Electricity Authority's (EEA EEA European Economic Area EEA European Environment Agency EEA Employment Equity Act (Canada) EEA Een En Ander (Dutch) EEA Erick van Egeraat Associated Architects EEA Energy and Environmental Analysis ) Abu Qir Abu Qir or Abukir (both: ă'b  kēr`, əb Power Station. The contract also includes converting the units from mechanical-hydraulic control to electrical-hydraulic control. The new control systems will be part of a total plant automation renovation being conducted for EEA by Honeywell, the main contractor. The first two steam turbines will be retrofitted during a scheduled outage out·age n. 1. A quantity or portion of something lacking after delivery or storage. 2. A temporary suspension of operation, especially of electric power. beginning in late 2001 and the work for the other two units will be done during a scheduled outage early in 2002. The Abu Qir installation is one of the larger international control system projects secured by GE since its acquisition of the turbine retrofit services group of Woodward Governor Company The Woodward Governor Company is the world's oldest and largest independent designer, manufacturer, and service provider of energy control solutions for aircraft engines, industrial engines and turbines, power generation and mobile industrial equipment. last year. "Projects such as this one clearly demonstrate the benefits of integrating Woodward Global Services into GE's turbine controls business, greatly enhancing our ability to provide customers worldwide with comprehensive control solutions," said Steve Huval, general manager of GE Global Controls Services. GE's turbine controls business is part of GE Energy Services, the services arm of GE Power Systems. The SPEEDTRONIC Mark VI turbine control system features GE's most advanced turbine control technology. It offers triple modular redundancy In computing, triple modular redundancy (TMR) is a fault tolerant form of N-modular redundancy, in which three systems perform a process and that result is processed by a voting system to produce a single output. (TMR TMR total mixed ration. TMR 1 Trainable mentally retarded 2 Transmyocardial revascularization, see there ); three separate, but identical, processors monitoring redundant sensors to execute control actions based on two-out-to-three voting. Similarly, the independent protection systems are a TMR architecture which monitors critical turbine parameters through multiple sensors to provide alarm and trip actions based on voted logic. The Mark VI system also offers comprehensive diagnostics, reducing system repair time through rapid trouble-shooting; and a high resolution input/output system for improved speed control and smoother synchronization (1) See synchronous and synchronous transmission. (2) Ensuring that two sets of data are always the same. See data synchronization. (3) Keeping time-of-day clocks in two devices set to the same time. See NTP. . About GE Power Systems GE Power Systems (www.gepower.com) is one of the world's leading suppliers of power generation technology, energy services and management systems with 2000 revenue of $15 billion. The business has the largest installed base of power generation equipment in the global energy industry. GE Power Systems provides equipment, service, and management solutions across the power generation, oil and gas, distributed power, and energy rental industries. |
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