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MONITORING & SAMPLING NEWSLETTER     

January 2010
No. 363

Yokogawa to Supply Control System for CC Power Plant in Trinidad and Tobago

Yokogawa Electric Corp.’s subsidiary, Yokogawa Deutschland GmbH, has received an order from MAN Ferrostaal Industrial Projects GmbH to supply an automation and control system for the La Brea Combined Cycle (CC) Power Plant that is being built by MAN Ferrostaal Industrial Projects GmbH and Eisenbau Essen GmbH for Trinidad Generation Unlimited (TGU). This 720-MW power plant is being built near La Brea, a town on the south side of Trinidad Island. Scheduled to be completed in July 2011, the plant will meet the country’s rising demand for electricity.

This new power plant will have six gas turbines, six exhaust gas heat recovery steam generators, two steam turbines and auxiliary facilities. Yokogawa will provide a range of systems and products including a CENTUM^® series integrated production control system to control all of these facilities, the ProSafe^®-RS Safety Instrumented System for detecting abnormal conditions and safely initiating emergency shutdowns, the Exaquantum™ Plant Information Management System for recording and retrieving historical data, and the PRM™ integrated device management software package, as well as engineering and commissioning services.

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