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CNEEC and Azerenerji sign a $3.7 million contract

15 December 2008 14:37 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Nijat Mustafayev, Rashad Suleymanov â€“ APA-Economics. GE Energy has signed a US$3.7 million contract with China National Electric Equipment Corporation (CNEEC) to supply control and protection systems for the largest heavy-oil-fired super-critical power plant in Azerbaijan, owned by Azerenerji Joint Stock Company. The new plant control system will automatically control all processes in the power plant, using a network to interconnect sensors, controllers, operator terminals and actuators.
The existing Azerenerji super-critical plant will be retrofitted and upgraded by Chinese power engineering firms in an effort to help the growing economy. The project scope includes increasing the power output of eight LMZ K-300 steam turbines from 300 megawatts to 330 megawatts each.
Under the scope of the contract, GE Energy will supply its proven OC 4000â„¢ plant automation systems to control the entire power station, including digital hydraulic controls and emergency trip systems for the steam turbines, as well as a distributed control system for control, monitoring and protection of all of the plantâ€™s sub-systems. The GE OC 4000 systems will process more than 32,000 field data signals across the installation and will be delivered and commissioned beginning in the third quarter of 2008 through mid-2010.