Gas Turbine Efficiency - overcoming your power problems

CONTRACTS & APPLICATIONSCMI’s HRSG orderCMI Energy has beenawarded a new orderto provide a triplepressurewithreheat, natural gasfiredhorizontalHRSG for a combinedcycle power stationin Elektrenai,Lithuania.Plant operator,Lietuvos Elektrine,and Spanish utilityIberdrola, who willbuild the station,anticipatecompletion of theproject by 2012.Pressure is on formore energy sincethe Ignalina nuclearplant closed.GE wins HDECUS$200m contractGE Oil & Gas hasbeen awarded acontract worth over$200 million, byHyundai Engineering& ConstructionCompany (HDEC), tosupply 8 gas turbinesand related servicesfor the Abu DhabiGas Industries(GASCO) integratedgas development(IGD) project atHabshan in AbuDhabi.GABB wins US$18morder from indiaABB has won anorder worth $18 millionfrom Power GridCorporation of India(PGCIL) for 765 kV(kilovolt) powertransformers. PGCILis India's centralgovernment-ownedpower transmissionutility and amongthe largest in theworld. Thetransformers will beinstalled at PowerGrid's Satnasubstation in thecentral Indian stateof Madhya Pradesh.Vasilikos Power Station, phase IV, unit 5contract awarded to NEM BVNEM BV HAS secured a new orderfor Vasilikos Power Station, phaseIV, unit 5. Modular HRSG Systemshas by now already started theengineering for this project.The new order is a continuation ofthe successful partnership betweenIUB and J&P AVAX. Earlier, IUB suppliedtwo HRSGs for unit 4 (photoattached), which have recentlybeen commissioned.The principal, J&P AVAX, is a GreekEPC contractor. The end customer isElectrical Authority of Cyprus, themost important electricity supplierof the south part of Cyprus. NEMwill supply two two pressure levelHRSGs, each behind a GE frame6FA. The gas turbines run on diesel,but in the future it is expected thatgas will be available. Two steamturbines convert the steam producedinto electricity. The HRSGswill work with highly variable loads, in a so-called'start-stop' operation. The order includes two bypasssystems to be supplied by NEM Power-Systems.NEM BVM manufactures equipment for power generationindustry. The company’s products include heatrecovery steam generators, fired boilers, processboilers, industrial and utility boilers,components/stacks and dampers, feed watersystems, DCS systems, and components for powerplants. It also provides boiler manufacturingservices. The company offers its products for variousfossil fuel-based power generation technologiescovering oil and natural gas, coal, waste, and heatand gas coming from industrial processes. NEM bvwas founded in 1929 and is headquartered inLeiden, the Netherlands.Sweco takes on €1.2mAfrican power contractSweco’ engineers are studying thepotential and present proposalsfor the interconnection of thepower grids between Uganda andTanzania in order to reduce thecurrent shortage of power in theregion. The contract is worthapproximately €1.2m.The assignment is being carriedout on behalf of UgandaElectricity Transmission withfinancing from the World Bank.The company is already involvedin similar assignments in countrieslike Botswana, Ethiopia,Mozambique, Angola andTanzania. Sweco has said that, byinterconnecting the power gridsaround Lake Victoria, it is possibleto reduce the shortage and ensurea stable electricity supply in theregion.Eva Nygren, president of SwecoSweden, said: "Over the past 50years Swecohas worked inmany Africancountries toimprove accessto electricityin both urbanand ruralareas."Sweco is aconsultinggroup withexpertise inengineering, environmentaltechnology and architecture.Sweco is also behind the developmentof a new city in China,Caofeidian, located in theTangshan region of Eastern China[see bottom left].Based around 200km south-east ofBeijing the new eco-city willhouse a million inhabitants and isbeing built with the aim ofbecoming one of China’s mostenvironmentally-friendly cities.The city plan of the first section,a 30 sq.km area, has beendeveloped by a team of Sweco’splanners, architects, engineersand technology consultants.Here, Sweco is aiming to createone of the most environmentallyfriendly cities in the world. Thenew eco-city will be carbondioxideneutral and should evengenerate a surplus of energy forthe rest of the grid.38MARCH • WORLDWIDE I NDEPENDENT P OWER