Engine & Turbine Technology
Gas turbines provide peak performance
Gas turbine technology is at the heart of major investments in new generating plants. Eugene McCarthy reports.
La tecnología de las turbinas de gas constituye la esencia de las principales inversiones en las nuevas centrales de producción. Informa Eugene McCarthy.
Große Investitionen in neue Kraftwerke konzentrieren sich auf Gasturbinen. Eugene McCarthy berichtet.
T
he improved efficiencies that new technologies are bringing to generating plants all rely on gas turbines and their associated technologies. So turbine
manufacturers are winning substantial orders. Take for example Alstom, which has just won
two new turbine contracts. Te first is to provide two 900 MW units for the largest coal-fired power plant in Poland.
Te company has signed contracts worth
approximately €1.25 billion with Polimex, Rafako and Mostostal Warsawa, members of the consortium in charge of the supply of two 900 MW units to major Polish utility PGE. Tis project concerns the units five and six for a
new ultra-supercritical (USC) coal-fired power plant in Opole, south-western Poland. Once operational, it will be the country’s largest coal- fuelled facility, and will supply electricity to the equivalent of two million homes. Unit five is due to enter commercial operation in 2018 and unit six in 2019.
Ultra-supercritical technology Alstom’s scope includes the provision of its proprietary ultra-supercritical technology including the supply of boiler islands, the steam turbine generator islands, including the turbine hall equipment, the air quality control systems as well as some balance of plant systems. Alstom will be responsible for overall project
Fig. 1. Quick turbine start up means the power plant can be used both for peak loading and as a back-up for renewable energy sources.
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