Amersfoort, The Nertherlands -
September 14, 2007
Yokogawa Italia wins major control systems contract for HERA Group’s waste incineration plants
Yokogawa Italia has won an order worth more than five million euros to supply CENTUM CS3000 distributed control systems to HERA (Holding Energia Risorse Ambiente) S.p.A of Bologna. The systems, which will be installed during 2007 as the plants come on stream, will be used for the control of five waste incinerator plants in the northern Italian region of Emilia Romagna.
The new waste incinerators have been designed by HERA’s Ingegneria Grandi Impianti division, and use the latest technologies to achieve clean, efficient and environmentally friendly waste disposal with the optimum utilisation of electrical and thermal energy.
The Yokogawa equipment is being supplied on a ‘turn-key’ basis, and the contract includes, in addition to the main control system, the fieldbus based communications and networking, field services, audio IP and CCTV systems and maintenance services over a 6-year period.
In addition, because of the synergy with the control system, Yokogawa Italia will also supply to the main package suppliers and BOP contractor companies, under the co-ordination activities of the Hera Ingegneria Grandi Impianti division, all the field instrumentation for the plants. This is FOUNDATION Fieldbus based, and includes around 1000 transmitters, 50 flowmeters, and 30 analysers over the five plants.
The control systems are based on the reliable CENTUM CS3000 DCS, of which roughly 18,000 systems have been installed worldwide, to carry out the management, automation, supervision the control of the plant, including all equipment and subsystems for the ovens, boilers, steam turbines and smoke purification systems.
The field communication system chosen by HERA is based on modern fieldbus technologies including FOUNDATION Fieldbus and Profibus DP. Each system in the main plant will acquire data from 7700 physical points (including the field bus) and about 5500 other serial inputs from various subsystems. In the other plants, the corresponding values are 4500 physical points and 4000 serial inputs.
‘We are delighted to have won such a major order which offers great benefits to the environment’, said Yokogawa Italia: ‘especially as Yokogawa was selected for this contract after an highly competitive international tendering process in which several other leading automation companies were involved.’
For further information please contact:
Maaike Goinga
Yokogawa Europe BV
Databankweg 20
3821 AL Amersfoort
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 33 464 1645
Fax: +31 33 464 1659
E-mail: maaike.goinga@nl.yokogawa.com
www.yokogawa.com/eu
About Yokogawa Europe B.V.
The European headquarters of Yokogawa were founded in Amersfoort in the Netherlands in 1982. Throughout Europe Yokogawa has its own sales, service and engineering operations. This dedicated network has been extended to Central and East Europe and Southern Africa to further enhance the coverage and support associated with serving the process control and automation market place. Yokogawa develops and produces flowmeters at Rota Yokogawa in Germany and liquid analysers and industrial safety systems in the Netherlands. In addition to this dedicated network of Yokogawa subsidiaries, a select organisation of Test & Measurement (T&M) subsidiaries and distributors is established in certain areas to support the specific customer needs of this continuously developing and specific market of T&M instrumentation.
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