Metso has also signed an agreement with Hitachi Zosen Inova AG to supply automation for two lines at a greenfield waste-to-energy plant being built by SITA South Tyne and Wear Ltd. in Tees Valley, Billingham, U.K.
The waste-to-energy lines under construction at the North East Energy Recovery Centre will each have the capacity to incinerate 152,000 tons of waste per year. They will feature grate-fired boilers with a thermal performance of 2 x 45.85 MW and rated turbine capacity of 24.2 MW with a live steam temperature of 410 C. The plant will start commercial operation in the autumn of 2013.
Metso's delivery scope consists of a Metso DNA distributed control system, a Metso DNA information management system, on-site commissioning, trial run support, training and spare parts. To boost system availability, there will be a remote service connection between the plant and Metso. Metso's delivery will take place in September 2012.
With advanced solutions, the operators will be able to manage operations and information efficiently at the plant. The system includes, DNA Report, an umbrella application for all Metso DNA reporting and analyzing tools, and solutions that use historical data stored in the DNA Historian database. It includes tools for report development, calculations, trending, alarms & events analysis, manual data entry and an operator log book. One example of the tools is Tracer, a process history analyzing tool combining traditional trends with alarms and events in the same graphic with a common timeline.
Metso was chosen as the supplier for the plant based on its good track record from five earlier projects with Hitachi Zosen Inova at A.S.A. Zistersdorf in Austria, BIR Bergen in Norway; Riverside and Newhaven in the U.K. and Vaasa in Finland.
"Compared with other systems in use in our previous projects, we immediately understood that Metso DNA is a flexible, state-of-the-art and easy-to-operate system. It fulfills our customers' requirements," says Jean Bilger, Head of Electrical and Control, Hitachi Zosen Inova. "Our engineers especially like the easy expandability and flexibility of Metso DNA."
Bilger appreciates Metso's way of working. From the first offer to the final startup, Metso's people have proven to be professional and proactive partners. "We have a high level of trust in all the departments of Metso we have dealt with, from the sales team to the project engineers and startup team."
SITA U.K. is a recycling and resource management company with specialist knowledge and experience in all areas of recycling, waste and resource management.
Zurich-based Hitachi Zosen Inova is an international specialist in energy-from-waste installations. Created from the former Von Roll Inova, the company offers customers all over the world reliable, customized thermal waste processing solutions. With more than 75 years of experience and over 470 reference installations, Hitachi Zosen Inova provides the entire range of services from developing, designing, planning and constructing installations right through to maintenance and modernization. Since 2010, Hitachi Zosen Inova has been part of the global industrial group Hitachi Zosen Corporation.
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