Alarm management and monitoring critical for energy-efficient boiler powered by bio fuel

Lowering lifecycle costs with one IED technology, library, control system, and common IEC 61850 engineering toolset

First in the world process and power control in the same system using IEC 61850

650 drives and other electrical components connected to the control centers across the Atlantic, detecting errors before they become problems

An ABB Symphony® Plus distributed control system is providing a total plant automation solution for an ultra-supercritical thermal power plant in Guangxi, China.

Procontrol P13 with a current HMI solution averts total control system replacement.

Electric and natural gas provider mitigates risk with diagnostic audits, detecting potential system vulnerabilities long before they happen, rather than having to repair because of a crisis.

ABB has upgraded the complete human machine interface (HMI) system at the Swanbank E power station.

Duvha power station is a six unit, coal-fired power plant operated by the South African electrical utility, Eskom, with a total installed capacity of 3,600 megawatts (MW).

The Severnside facility will treat up to 400,000 metric tons of municipal solid waste a year, with an installed electrical capacity of 37 megawatts (MW), enough to power 50,000 UK homes.

Harbin Electric International has selected ABB as its plant automation partner for a major new supercritical power plant project in Turkey.

Production data acquisition and conditioning, long-term archival, alarm list, ratio computations, lifetime monitoring and comprehensive accounting running on ABB's Process Information Management System (PIMS)

Fast-track delivery of power plant automation system and substation expansion will help boost generating capacity and ensure grid stability in populous northern region of Algeria

ABB’s solution to automate the Enewill, Osaka Gas and SMFL MIRAI Partners greenfield Wakayama Gobo biomass power plant

Repeat order from Doosan Heavy Industries to automate a 600 megawatt (MW) supercritical coal-fired power plant in Vietnam, an extension of the Vinh Tan 4 supercritical thermal power plant located about 230 km east of Ho Chi Minh City.

The plant is fueled by natural gas and has the capacity to produce 230 megawatts of heat and around 300 MW of electricity for some 100,000 homes in Lichterfelde, a suburb of Berlin.

The Symphony Plus system controls and monitors the entire power plant, including the turbine, heat recovery steam generator and its auxiliaries, and balance-of-plant. The system is equipped with the latest generation of SD Series flexible control and I/O modules, a field-proven technology featuring scalable and flexible design.

The order is worth over $20 million and was awarded by the Hydro Plants Generation Company to provide extensive plant automation and control solutions for the Aswan hydropower complex in Egypt as part of a major plant rehabilitation program.

$25 million to supply electrical and control systems for a new 75 megawatt photovoltaic power plant in the Northern Cape province of South Africa.

Plant electrification, automation and substation solutions for solar power plants being built as part of India’s strong push for solar energy and renewables. Spread across the southern Indian states of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, these projects will connect more than 850 megawatts (MW) of solar energy to the grid.

ABB will automate latest generating units of ‘coal-by-wire’ project in China

Coordination of multiple refinery utilities to implement optimal power plan

Model predictive control for a more stable and reliable steam supply and reduced operating costs

Complete virtualization of all HMI servers to better manage operating system and application updates

HMI upgrade for central information management, data acquisition and reporting

A single window into process automation, field device engineering and maintenance

Extending control system's life for one of the world's most effective and sustainable hydropower stations

Optimizing enterprise asset management with ABB Asset Suite and eSOMS software

Integration capabilities of System 800xA offered ideal solution for energy savings and operator effectiveness thanks to user-specific interface

Smooth integration of Vacha II station into the hydro power cascade while maximizing yield, and minimizing the need for human attention with remote operation

ABB supplied a complete integrated instrumentation, control and electrical solution for a combined cycle power plant in Bangladesh to cope with power deficiency in the country.

ABB was awarded a contract from GDF Suez to retrofit the control system of the Hazelwood Power station.

Saigon Ban Mai Commercial Company selected ABB for total control system retrofit of Vinh Son hydropower plant.

Supplying a Symphony® Plus automation solution for a 320-megawatt fuel-fired power plant

Advanced automation, protection and control system for Edgard de Souza substation

ABB Ability™ digital control technology helped Enel to connect its hydropower fleet across Chile, improving coordination and information-sharing.

Cutting-edge control automation will allow Europe’s biggest utility to extend the lifecycle of its assets at La Casella combined cycle power plant.

A unified approach to energy conservation and optimization across facilities

Two companies that recently upgraded their aging Infi 90 Symphony Plus systems are Huaneng Group and Shandong Zhonghua Power.

An ABB electrical balance-of-plant (EBoP) solution will help a thermal power plant in India reduce power shortages and meet spiraling demand for reliable electricity.

ABB has upgraded with state-of-the-art features the 22-year-old turbine control systems at the Harper Lake solar thermal power plant in the Mojave Desert, California.

Using the new, integrated heat accumulator of the power-to-heat unit, the district heating and electricity production can be temporally decoupled from the heat supply

Putting coal injection control into operation, production process interrupted only for 36 hours

Autonomously engineered supervision and control enables power plant dimension and capacity increase

Helping an OEM to develop the next generation boiler control and monitoring

Controlling complex systems engineering of biogas plants to ensure maximum gas output at a constant quality

Lowering operation cost with unmanned control; saving 1.8 million m3 of natural gas annually

Future-proof maintenance for public facilities and residential heating thanks to ABB DCS life cycle management program

ABB to supply Symphony Plus total plant automation system solutions for a new duel fuel combined cycle power plant in Bangladesh.

The 670 megawatt Banten Serang supercritical coal-fired power plant will provide much-needed power, the Symphony® Plus solution will control the entire power plant including the boiler, turbine, auxiliary electric equipment, fuel gas desulfurization, balance of plant.

Upgrade from Contronic P to the Freelance DCS to support unmanned operation

Big data visualization made easy using MOM Process and Production Intelligence Software.

The Ranganadi Hydroelectric Project is a 405 megawatt (MW) generating plant on the Ranganadi River in Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India

Backward compatibility and investment protection with step by step system evolution

An ABB control system migration at a waste-to-energy plant in the Netherlands will ensure state-of-the-art plant control for at least another 10–15 years.

DONG Energy selected ABB to supply Symphony Plus for the automation system for their Avedøre Power Plant Unit 1.

Weston Unit 3 is a 360 MW Combustion Engineering tangential-fired drum boiler supplying steam to a GE turbine-generator. The balanced-draft unit is equipped with two electrically driven boiler feed pumps and a fabric filter baghouse.

It is a province of deep forests and river valleys, rolling prairie hills and highlands. Manitoba, is also home to a number of North American indigenous groups, who have lived among this spectacular setting for thousands of years.

Real-time data is collected from a Siemens Teleperm XP via an OPC server, a Siemens Win CC and a GE Mark V system. The data is stored in the long term real-time database from ABB, which is then used as a common data source for all the optimization tools and other applications.

Real-time data is collected from a Siemens Teleperm XP via an OPC server, a Siemens Win CC and a GE Mark V system. The data is stored in the long term real-time database from ABB, which is then used as a common data source for all the optimization tools and other applications.

Supplying a 100 megawatt turnkey photovoltaic solar project in Ontario, Canada’s most populous province.

ABB has delivered integrated instrumentation, control and electrical solutions for six power plant projects in Iraqi Kurdistan. The plants have added 3,000 MW of much-needed electricity to the autonomous region’s power supply.

ABB is supplying an integrated electrical and control solution for a new power plant that will help meet peak demand and ease power shortages in the Philippines.

ABB successfully delivered Symphony Plus HMI solution for a 600 MW fast-track gas-fired power plant project owned by Cairo Electricity Production Company (CEPC).

Largest power generation company in Singapore, chose Symphony Plus S+ Operation human machine interface.

More time-efficient maintenance, improved operational reliability and enhanced security

ABB’s digital solutions and control systems optimize productivity while reducing emissions and costs

Integrated process control system pilot to connect the workforce, activities and equipment in real time

1590 Energy Corporation selected ABB to upgrade the control system of their Bauang diesel power plant via a step-wise approach.

Commissioning the first 2,000 MW of this landmark project comprising two generating units.

ABB has been awarded a contract by China Chengda Engineering Co. Ltd. to supply Symphony® Plus for a new combined cycle power plant located at Bhola district

The existing plant consists of 2 units of 125 MW capacity, commissioned in 2006. ABB has completed the upgradation of these units in the first quarter of 2015 to the Symphony Plus platform through seamless stepwise migration approach.

Hawaiian Electric selects Symphony Plus for modernization of the boiler control systems for Unit 8 and 9 of their power plant located at Honolulu.

Server virtualization saves running costs and increase reliability

Multisystem integration over a wide geographical area

Incinerating up to 675,000 metric tons of pre-sorted waste a year at 90% fuel efficiency

AC 800M controller and Profibus fieldbus communication for highest precision in unique project, making use of an extremely large proportion of wood’s theoretical energy content

Economy of scale for largest and most ambitious district cooling project ever undertaken

Remote-enabled monitoring via ABB ServicePort helps achieve 100% availability

First in the world process and power control in the same system using IEC 61850

Ensuring Europe’s busiest transportation hub receives optimal, cost-effective heat and power

ABB PGIM provides complete and flexible data reporting and diagnostic capabilities for power generation.

A raft of operational and cost benefits for the site’s desalination plant

Kusile Power Station will comprise six units of 800 megawatt (MW) each, will be the world’s fourth-largest coal-fired power station.

New way of connecting PLC objects and its signals to System 800xA reduces engineering time by 50%, results in a much tighter integration than with traditional solutions and allows to retain plant investment in existing hardware

Germany’s first combined heat and power station that uses only straw to produce electricity and heat