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, UK.
The waste-to-energy lines under construction at the North East Energy Recovery Centre will each have the capacity to incinerate 152,000tns of waste per year. They will feature grate-fired boilers with a thermal performance of 2 x 45.85MW and rated turbine capacity of 24.2MW 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.
