Piston power | mtu gensets for Egypt and Alberta
Rolls-Royce has commissioned ten mtu 20V 4000 L64 FNER gas-fuelled gensets in the Beheira province in northern Egypt to supply the Egyptian Wood Technology Company’s (WOTECH) production plant with electricity. Since there is no access to the public grid, WOTECH relies entirely on the ten 20-cylinder mtu gas gensets, which together have a total output of 25 MW.
The factory produces medium-density fibreboard (MDF) from rice straw, which is used for furniture and buildings. The plant avoids the usual practice of burning rice straw, which is a byproduct of rice cultivation, and ensures its sustainable use by repurposing it into MDF. The factory is the second of its kind in the world and the first in Africa.
The ten mtu gensets have an operational lifetime of up to 84 000 hours before needing major overhaul. Rolls-Royce is also supplying ten mtu 20V 4000 L64 FNER gas gensets to its distributor partner Collicutt Energy Services for end user installations on five sites in Alberta, Canada. Each site will provide power to the grid at times of peak demand. The electricity market in Alberta is a for-profit deregulated “energy-only” system. The wholesale price of electricity is set each hour, and each producer is paid based on the rate at the time of supply, regardless of how that power is produced. With the mtu Series 4000 natural gas fuelled gensets at each site, the power supplied to the grid is both more environmentally friendly and cost-effective than power produced from sources such as coal or diesel. The units are also “future ready”, offering the ability to run on both natural gas and hydrogen blending.
Left and below: mtu gas fuelled gensets at the WOTECH plant, Egypt, and at a site in Alberta, Canada (Photos: Rolls- Royce)
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