ABB to supply control system for power plant in Rayong

PROJECT | ABB to supply control system for power plant in Rayong

ABB has secured a multi-million dollar deal with Hyundai Engineering Co. to supply distributed control system to the 114MW power plant set to rise in Thailand. Under the contract, ABB will supply System 800xA control system for full automation of the power plant that will be located in Map Ta Put in Rayong province. The control system will integrate with the Power Generation Information Manager and will enable remote access by serving as the information system's historian and web server.

Frenk Withoos, Regional Head of Business Unit Power Generation, South Asia, ABB Power Systems division, said, “We are glad that Hyundai embraces ABB’s state of the art automation technology to create significant improvement and cost savings in the power plant through maximised performance, integrated automation solution, plant asset optimisation and meeting the most stringent safety standard of the power plant. The power plant will have the new feature of ABB’s well proven IEC61850 technology which is an integral part of the System 800xA control system. We are honoured to work with Hyundai in this project and look forward to a successful delivery of the project.”

Hyundai is the main contractor commissioned by plant owner PTT Chemical Public Company Limited for the design, engineering, procurement, supply, construction, erection, commissioning and testing of the new power plant. Under the contract between ABB and Hyundai, ABB will be responsible for project management, system engineering, tests and site supervision services for installation and commissioning start-up. The project’s target completion is the third quarter of 2009.