Renewable energy helps protect the environment and brings both society and industry closer to the goal of achieving sustainability. We provide solutions for renewable energy applications worldwide, thus contributing to the sustainable development goals. In 2024, Yokogawa strengthened its commitment to innovation in the energy transition by acquiring BaxEnergy, a global leader in renewable energy software solutions. BaxEnergy serves as the digital engine driving Yokogawa's renewable energy vision, specializing in asset performance management, energy control, and data analytics.
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Hydrogen: Accelerating Net Zero and Energy Security
Yokogawa is transforming Europe to a new, data-driven and digitally-native energy system, powered by renewables; forging a more efficient path to net zero and energy security.
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Geothermal Power
Generating electricity despite the weather.
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Biomass Power
Biomass is a renewable energy source that can help thermal power plants reduce their carbon dioxide emissions.
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Waste to Energy
Cleaning up the world we live in.
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Solar Power
The sun is an inexhaustible source of clean energy, and humans have used this in a variety of ways down through the ages.
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Wind Power
Hitting clean energy goals with wind farms and wind turbines.
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Hydro Power
Reliable monitoring and control of hydropower plants around the world.
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Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion
Harvesting around the clock energy from tropical waters.
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Renewables SCRUM team
The climate is changing and the world is facing the challenge of shifting towards renewable energy. By co-innovating with new and existing partners we commit to using Yokogawa's strengths and technology to achieve net-zero emissions.
Challenges
Customer Challenge
Providing a comprehensive solution for monitoring, analyzing, and controlling wind, solar, hydro, and other renewable energy sources, helping utilities, IPPs, investment funds and asset managers to improve efficiency, reduce downtime, and maximize energy production.
Solution
BaxEnergy's APM platform collects data from an extensive range of renewable energy sources and technologies, and aggregates them into a single platform, providing you with actionable insights, easy-to-use dashboards and powerful analytics tools to support you in improving your assets’ performance.
Enabling Technologies
Energy Studio Pro® is an Asset Performance Management (APM) system for the monitoring and remote control of cross-technology and cross-manufacturer renewable energy power plants.
Please refer to BaxEnergy resources page.
Customer Challenge
Power plant operators face challenges in optimizing plant performance, reducing operational costs, and ensuring reliable power generation.
Solution
Power Plant Controller (PPC) provided by BaxEnergy guarantees that your power output meets grid requirements and maintains system stability. With advanced algorithms and real-time monitoring, it ensures optimal control over energy production, maximizing asset performance.
Enabling Technologies
The PPC automates and optimizes power plant operations, maximizing efficiency, reliability, and environmental performance through advanced control and monitoring.
Details
All BaxEnergy products and IPs have been developed using a single flexible core: the proprietary Universal Data Engine™. This solution initially designed to connect multiple OEM vendors in the same system, has later on been used to interconnect diverse technologies (wind, solar, hydropower, geothermal etc.) and eventually realize entirely different applications (asset performance management, actionable insights, etc.), all with limited R&D investments.
o Open: Unify data coming from different assets in one platform for full life-cycle management of cross-technology power plants.
o Flexible: Monitor and control your assets anywhere, anytime, with a highly customizable platform designed to meet your specific operational needs.
o Intelligent: Automatically drive smart corrective actions to maximize energy production and reduce time-consuming activities.
o Resilient: By identifying potential vulnerabilities and proactively preventing malicious attacks, we maintain the integrity and continuity of your operations, ensuring uninterrupted service and peace of mind.
BaxEnergy’s technology is utilized in over 2000 power plants worldwide, interconnecting 130 GW of renewable energy in over 40 countries.
Resources
- Yokogawa provided control solutions for expansion project in sugar and bio-energy plant.
- Consolidated central control room was designed for safe, comfortable, and efficient work environment.
CENTUM VP was selected for the BOP in a concentrated solar power plant of the Xina Solar One Project.
Yokogawa provided a complete control system solution that integrates the subsystems in the plant as a system of systems.
- Yokogawa participated in Japan's largest wind power plant construction project.
- The comprehensive solution including SCADA system provides safe and secure remote operation.
PT PLN selected Yokogawa to automate plant and turbine startup/shutdown processes in 2008.
In 2021, a plant expansion project was successfully completed through continuous collaboration between the customer and Yokogawa.
TSE proposed to customer a floating solar PV system that floats in water storage pond, cooling ponds, and wastewater ponds in the plant.
Yokogawa's CI Server and FA-M3 PLC contribute to the production of clean power for the plant.
Territory Generation supplies electricity to the NT's grid with their 8 geographically isolated power stations.
Territory Generation selected FAST/TOOLS to integrate new & renewable energy to the power grid.
- Thai SPP uses CENTUM CS 3000 to improve efficiency of Biomass Power Plant
- The burning of the ground rice husks in the boiler's furnace chamber is a complex process that must be carefully controlled
- The community energy management system (CEMS) at F-Grid Miyagi efficiently supplies electricity and heat to the industrial park.
- During the two-year demonstration experiment, costs were reduced by 20% compared with the past.
Okinawa Prefecture is promoting clean energy with the aim of becoming a low-carbon society in the 21st century. Ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) technology is particularly well suited for this purpose, and is expected to both reduce the environmental impact that power generation has in the prefecture and lessen the prefecture's dependence on imported fossil fuels.
- The STARDOM network-based control system and FA-M3 range-free controllers play an important role in smoothing out the supply of this power to the grid
- STARDOM and FA-M3 ensure smooth supply of power to grid by wind farm equipped with large-capacity NAS batteries
- Yokogawa's CENTUM CS 3000 DCS Monitors and Controls Operations at Poultry Litter-to-energy Plant
- The boiler and turbine startup procedures reduces operator workload and helps to ensure a smooth and safe startup
- Italian waste to energy plant turns to CENTUM, PRM and FOUNDATION fieldbus solution
- Nearly 1500 FOUNDATION fieldbus devices are monitored and managed using the PRM
- Modern waste to energy facility in UK uses CENTUM CS 3000 and ProSafe-RS
- Lakeside exports at least 34MW per hour to the country's national grid
- Australian National University's "Big Dish" controlled by Yokogawa PLC and FAST/TOOLS SCADA
- FAST/TOOLS benefits us in many ways and allows us to clearly see the entire process, giving us the information we need to take immediate action
- Yokogawa's HXS10 solar controller optimizes conversion efficiency at Australian solar cooling plant
- Accurate sun tracking and visualization of all process data
Aboitiz Power Corporation is a holding company that was set up by the Aboitiz Group to oversee its investments in power generation, distribution, retail, and services. The company owns and operates several hydroelectric and geothermal power plants as well as a number of non-renewable power facilities throughout the Philippines. It also owns distribution utilities that are centered in high-growth areas in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.
- The NEP Solar team developed the control strategy and the Yokogawa engineers programmed the controller accordingly.
- The FAST/TOOLS software could be installed on the notebook PCs used by the development team, eliminating the need for costly dedicated servers.
- A robust and reliable integrated control and safety system (ICSS) made up of the CENTUM CS3000 PCS and the ProSafe-RS SIS ensures safe operations while fully automating key processes.
- A variety of analytical instruments accurately measure the concentrations of key components, and this data can be monitored and controlled by the Yokogawa PCS.
- Complex starting up and shutting down operations of a biomass power plant were automated with CENTUM VP.
- Operator errors and interventions were eliminated in all critical processes.
- CENTUM CS 3000 replaces legacy system at Paris's largest waste to energy plant
- Exaquantum is used to calculate plant performance and generate the reports needed to optimize operations and demonstrate regulatory compliance
Power monitoring package SMARTDAC+ GM and UPM100 system measures and quantifies the electrical energy consumption for each assembly line.
Industrial hydrogen fuel cells can be used to produce hydrogen and oxygen from distilled water as well as run in reverse to generate electricity. Fuel cells can also be used in conjunction with intermittent energy sources like solar or wind to provide regulated continuous energy output.
Geothermal power plants create electricity from geothermal energy. These power plants are similar to other steam turbine station; however their heat source is that of the earth's core. The created steam is used to turn the turbine for the production of electricity. Technologies include Dry steam, Flash steam and Binary cycle power stations with Binary cycle being the most common geothermal plant in current production. In the process of geothermal power generation the facility needs to monitor various processes, as in this case steam line pressure sits in remote from control room's location.
A belt conveyor fire detection solution employing the DTSX distributed optical fiber temperature sensor can greatly reduce crises that can threaten a company's survival.
Monitoring of Soundness of Power Supply Bus Bar (In-vehicle Lithium-ion Battery Applications)
With industrial and economic development comes increasingly large and advanced power plants and factories. Nevertheless, we find many cases where the original cables, cable tunnels, and other components of the power infrastructure have languished under continuous operation.
What if you could detect signs of abnormalities in bus ducts (bus bars) quickly during maintenance and inspection work and respond to them at just the right time? Yokogawa DTSX monitoring solution constantly monitors connections that tend to deteriorate over time and contributes by pinpointing abnormality locations and reducing workload of maintenance personnel, helping to ensure stability in plant operations.
Yokogawa’s industrial automation (IA) product and service offerings, industry domain knowledge, and VigilantPlant approach – which emphasizes safe, secure, and uninterrupted operations -- provide a solid foundation for an Industrial Internet of Things that specifically addresses the requirements of process automation, particularly for the OT side of the equation. To be able to provide an equally solid foundation for the IT side, Yokogawa is partnering with Cisco Systems and other industry leaders.
This white paper provides an overview of how Yokogawa believes its customers can best prepare for and position themselves to benefit from IIoT-enabled technology and solutions and digitalization in general to emerge as the successful connected industrial enterprises of the future.
The worlds of process automation and production management have been converging for some time. What once used to be islands of automation and production management functionality connected through highly proprietary integration schemes that were costly to maintain have developed into integrated platforms that provide seamless data exchange between the world of automation and the plant floor, the functions of production and operations management, and integration with business level systems.
The automation suppliers that will be successful in the long term will be those that effectively address application or industry specific problems for end users with a value proposition that cannot be ignored. These problems exist throughout the process industries today, and they won't be solved by simply offering a product, but through a combination of hardware, software, services, application expertise, and knowledge.
In ARC's view, customers need a compelling business value proposition to justify investment in any kind of automation. Vigilance and VigilantPlant were created with this in mind. Yokogawa's vision with VigilantPlant is to create an environment where plant personnel and operators are well informed, alert, and ready to take action.
Yokogawa has come a long way in making its message clear to the world of process automation. Last year, the company embarked on a full-scale global marketing campaign to make customers aware of the company's focus on system reliability, security, dependability, and robustness. Dubbed "Vigilance", the campaign created a unified message for the company and greatly helped expand awareness of the Yokogawa brand and corporate philosophy.
Process automation end users are under more pressure than ever to do more with less. The current economic climate means that many automation capital projects are on hold. With capital budgets tighter than ever, users instead focus on operational budgets (where cost cutting is also a key concern), or on automation investments with a very rapid return on investment.
In today's dynamic industrial marketplace, the only constant is change. Raw material costs, energy costs, market demands, environmental and safety regulations, technology, and even the nature of the labor force itself are constantly changing, and not always in predictable directions.
Environmental friendliness (E) must be assessed in today's product design in addition to the conventional design considerations of quality (Q), cost (C), and lead time (D). Hence, the product design system must be urgently restructured in order to minimize the environmental impact of a product throughout its life-cycle from purchase of the materials and parts, through manufacturing and distribution, to use and disposal.
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The YSS1000 setting software (hereinafter referred to as the YSS1000) is package software to configure the functions of the YS1000 series (hereinafter referred to as the YS1000) devices. Writing and reading of parameters and user programs of the YS1000, and PID tuning and monitoring of user programs can be performed through the use of communication.
As a gateway to further expand Yokogawa's messaging as a One-stop Solution Business, Yokogawa has partnered up with INCIT, to introduce the S.I.R.I. framework.
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Press Release Oct 28, 2024 Yokogawa Enters into Sales Partnership with Sensyn Robotics for Drone-Related Services
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Press Release Oct 28, 2024 Yokogawa to Provide Integrated Automation and Monitoring System for Pioneering Green Hydrogen Platform at Offshore Wind Farm in Europe
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Press Release Jun 5, 2024 Yokogawa Acquires BaxEnergy, a Provider of Renewable Energy Management Solutions
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Press Release Feb 15, 2024 Yokogawa Provides Remote Operation/Monitoring System and Video Monitoring Solution for Japan's Largest Wind Farm
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News Brief Feb 2, 2024 Discover what is involved in producing green hydrogen
Are you considering using hydrogen for your plant? Then visit the impressive hydrogen test site that Yokogawa, together with its partners, will use to generate green hydrogen on a large scale.
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