ABB Upgrades Control Systems At Gas-Fueled GDF SUEZ Plant

ABB (NYSE: ABB) has successfully commissioned a Symphony Plus (S+) control system upgrade at the Tractebel Energía de Monterrey combined cycle gas fueled power station in Villa de García, N.L. This commissioning marks the completion of the first S+ project developed by ABB in Mexico. 

Symphony™ Plus is the new generation of ABB’s total plant automation for the power and water industries. Symphony Plus is designed to maximize plant efficiency and reliability through automation, integration, and optimization of the entire plant.

The 245 MW Tractebel Energía de Monterrey station belongs to the GDF SUEZ Group, which has locations in over 30 countries around the world. With ABB’s low-risk solution, the plant successfully modernized its operating environment in the most cost-effective manner, with inherent advantages of the simple, scalable, seamless and secure Symphony Plus control system. 

During this project the existing Conductor NT stations were replaced with S+ Operations, ABB’s modern human-machine interface (HMI), designed specifically for power and water plants. The S+ Operations HMI solution transforms data into meaningful information and presents new and intuitive user-specific desktop displays. It has integrated perfectly with S+ controllers, and can also be used with other ABB control families as well as third-party devices. 
 

Tractebel Energía de Monterrey also upgraded all of their Composer workstations to the latest version. To help with the transition, ABB provided training for use of the modernized equipment. ABB has evolved the Symphony control system family in accordance with its long-term policy of "Evolution without Obsolescence." Like its predecessors, Symphony Plus can meet the requirements of plant owners in all geographic markets in all types of power generation and water plants.