News | March 15, 2001

ABB Wins Major I&C and Electrical Contracts for Malaysia's Power Plant Combined Cycle Conversion Project on Penang Island

Source: ABB Power Plant Automation

ABB announced today that it has been awarded contracts for Malaysia's Tenaga Nasional Berhad Gelugor combined cycle power plant. The contracts are placed by the project's EPC contractor, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. (Tokyo). This project is significant, as Kawasaki has demonstrated its full confidence in ABB by placing not only the order for control and instrumentation, but also for the electrical package as well, totalling over US$4 million.

The project is a result of Tenaga National Berhad's intention to convert the two 110MW open cycle gas turbine plants at the Gelugor Power Station, Pulau Pinang (or Penang Island), into a single combined cycle power plant to meet the increasing electricity demand on the island state. The existing plant consists of two Frame 9171 E gas turbines capable of dual fuel firing. The combined cycle block will consist of two gas turbines, two heat recovery steam generators and one 105MW-steam turbine-generator arranged in a 2-2-1 configuration. The commissioning of this project is scheduled to begin by the fourth quarter of 2001.

Under the terms of the contract, ABB is responsible for the project management, engineering, testing, commissioning, and installation support of the following:

  • Control system
  • Mimic panel for switchgear
  • Generator transformers
  • Unit/station transformers
  • 6.6kV auxiliary transformers
  • 6.6kV switchgear
  • 415V switchgear (Motor Control Center)
  • Isolated Phase Busduct (IPB)
  • Generator Circuit Breakers (GCB)
  • DC/ uninterruptible power supply system protection relay panel
Mr. C.F. Leong, ABB's General Manager for BU Power Generation South East Asia, said, "This project demonstrates ABB's unique position as a business partner providing our customers with a very wide scope of equipment, skills and expertise. It clearly demonstrates our ability to presenting one face to the customer, reducing costs for the customer by having integrated project management and co-ordinated team efforts in seeing the project through. "

ABB Singapore, http://www.abb.com/sq employs over 1,200 people and is part of the ABB Group, a global technology company serving the manufacturing, process and consumer industries, utilities, and the oil and gas markets.

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