Engine & Turbine Technology
At a more advanced stage is the Ansaldo Tomassen Gulf (ATG) high-tech gas turbine repair centre at new Industrial City of Abu Dhabi (ICAD III) in Musaffah. ATG, a local company whose shareholders are Ansaldo Tomassen and Saeed Al Mosawe Group, an Abu Dhabi Company, has brought to the region innovative technologies, state-of-the-art equipment and what it describes as some of the world’s best resources to create a centre of excellence for the production and repair of gas turbine rotating blades and other gas turbine components.
Construction of South Korea have announced a long- term agreement that extends their global cooperation in the development of next-generation nuclear and fossil steam turbines and generators. GE and Doosan have collaborated in nuclear and fossil steam turbine and generator projects since 1976, resulting in more than 19GW of fossil and 14GW of nuclear installed capacity in South Korea. Most recently, the two companies have designed
and are producing what will be the largest output, 145MW, nuclear steam turbine and generator in a 60Hz application. Tey also have collaborated on ultra-supercritical large fossil designs that are more efficient.
“Tis agreement strengthens our relationship to Fig. 2. Siemens’ scope of supply includes engineering services, too.
“Tis facility will be fundamental to meet at the best in terms of quality and timing the local market needs,” said Fausto Nepote, md of Ansaldo Tomassen Gulf. “Our customers will benefit from our premium service without having to bear the cost of shipping their parts to be repaired overseas. Tis shall also allow a sensible reduction in the turnaround time for parts that are essential for the operation of gas turbines,” he added. Although the traditional scope of ATG has been concentrated on the repair of GE technology components, the new workshop, thanks to the addition of new technologies and to its affiliation with Ansaldo Energia group, will expand to cover other types of gas turbines too. Dresser-Rand’s latest move is an agreement with Kazak company KazTurboRemont (KTR) to establish a long-term business relationship focused on servicing industrial gas turbines. KTR is a private company headquartered in Astana and operates a state-of-the-art service and repair facility in Atyrau. It specialises in the maintenance and modernisation of gas turbine and gas pump units. Te company’s clients are primarily located in Kazakhstan, which today is one of the world’s leading producers of oil and gas. “We are thrilled with the agreement with KTR as it is another important step aligned with Dresser-Rand’s service globalisation strategy,” said Luciano Mozzato, Dresser-Rand’s executive vice president, services worldwide. In other news, GE and Doosan Heavy Industries &
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develop advanced designs for the next generation of steam turbines and generators in South Korea and globally,” said Dongsoo Suh, executive vice president and head of Doosan’s power plant business group. Te immediate focus of the GE-Doosan agreement will be the development of a larger output steam turbine-generator for the next-generation nuclear reactors in South Korea. In the US, Alstom has opened a state-of-the-art, US$300m manufacturing facility in Chattanooga which will produce steam turbines, gas turbines, large turbo-generators and related equipment for the North American fossil fuel and nuclear power generation market. It will also retrofit existing steam turbines with leading edge technology (Fig. 1).” Te Chattanooga factory is equipped with a balancing facility that allows it to manufacture the largest turbines in the world, Alstom’s ARABELLE 1700MW class nuclear steam turbine. Te turbo- generator components will also be manufactured in this facility. Its size is particularly relevant to the nuclear industry, both for retrofitting existing equipment to make it more efficient or building the equipment that will be needed for the next generation of power plants. Alstom already operates turbine manufacturing facilities notably in France, Germany, Switzerland and China. Alstom’s expansion of its Chattanooga facility is consistent with the company’s larger clean power strategy in the US and worldwide. As part of that strategy, the company has also announced plans to build a wind power assembly facility in Amarillo, Texas, that will position the group as a major player able to meet the needs of the growing North American wind power market. Finally, Siemens Energy has received an order
from US power company NRG Energy to supply two SCC6-5000F Flex-Plant 10 combined cycle power islands in El Segundo, California. Te two power islands, which feature fast-start technology, low start up emissions and water usage, can generate 300MW within 10 minutes. Once the power islands go online in the spring of 2013, they will be able to power 240 000 households. l
“…innovative technologies, state-of-the- art equipment and what are described as some of the world’s best resources will create a centre of excellence for the production and repair of gas turbine rotating blades and other gas turbine components.”
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