AUTOMATION SOLUTION TO ENABLE CINERGY TO OPTIMIZE PERFORMANCE OF NEW FLUE GAS DESULPHURIZATION SYSTEM
07 September 2005 - Emerson Process Management

Emerson's Power & Water Solutions industry center will coordinate and supervise the process control system installation at the 3,250-megawatt station, one of the largest fossil-fuel plants in North America. Delivery is scheduled for December 2005.

With this comprehensive automation solution, Cinergy will be able to optimize performance of its new FGD system. Additionally, since the plant's five 650-megawatt units already are controlled by Emerson distributed control systems, installation of the Ovation FGD controls has the additional benefit of enabling Cinergy to easily integrate the new control system with existing plant controls, further boosting overall plant efficiency.

"The installation of this scrubber is part of Cinergy's on-going commitment to the environment, and the control system is an important aspect of this project," said Carl King, senior engineer, Gibson Generating Station. "Having used Emerson controls for a number of years, we are well aware of the operational and cost benefits of these systems."

"We are pleased to be able to continue our relationship with Cinergy and are gratified by their ongoing confidence in Emerson," said Bob Yeager, president, Emerson Power & Water Solutions. "We believe Emerson was selected by Cinergy for this project due to benefits delivered by prior use of our distributed systems, our extensive industry experience, and the proven record of increased reliability and availability delivered by the PlantWeb digital plant approach."

Emerson's commitment to the ongoing integration of expertise and leading-edge technologies has kept Ovation at the forefront of power industry controls solutions. For example, Ovation boasts a number of industry-leading advanced technologies: the incorporation of embedded advanced control algorithms specifically tailored to meet the challenges of electricity generation; a mission-critical, 100 MB Fast Ethernet network for high-speed communications of plant information; the industry's most powerful controller with the fastest duty cycle available to optimize plant performance; and a full line of analog, digital and special-purpose turbine and boiler control modules; among others.

Furthermore, Ovation's integrated digital bus capabilities leverage Foundation fieldbus, HART, DeviceNet and Profibus DP industry standard communications protocols. These technologies power Emerson's PlantWeb digital plant architecture, an open, standards-based approach enables power generation customers to optimize reliability, performance and environmental compliance through the integration of high-speed communications networks, intelligent field devices and bus I/O technologies.

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