Browse: Home /
power plant
power plant
You are browsing the power plant tag archive.
GE’s New Control System Hits the Mark
Plant-wide control system yields multiple benefits at new power station in South Africa
South Africa, which weathered a severe power shortage last year, continues to face heavy demand on its energy infrastructure. A new power plant owned and operated by South African oil and Gas Company Sasol, will enable the company [...]
Posted in CCGT power plant
| Tagged energy infrastructure, oil and Gas Company Sasol, power plant
|
ABB wins $48 million substation order for Saudi power plant : Gas-insulated substation to facilitate transmission of electricity from new power plant
Zurich, Switzerland, Jan 7, 2010 – ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order worth $48 million from the SEPCO III Electric Power Construction Corporation, a leading Chinese EPC (Engineering, Procurement, [...]
Posted in Nuclear
| Tagged ABB, Gas-insulated substation, power plant, Saudi power plant, substation, transmission of electricity
|
Wärtsilä wins major contract to supply equipment for 170 MW power plant in Texas, USA
Wärtsilä, a leading supplier of flexible power plants for the decentralised power generation market, has been contracted to supply a 170 MW gas-fired power plant to be installed in Antelope Station, located near Abernathy, Texas, USA.
The power plant is to be located [...]
Posted in Diesel Engine power plant
| Tagged 20V34SG generating sets, gas-fired power plant, power plant, Wärtsilä, Wärtsilä flexible power, wartsila wind farms
|
Cogentrix Energy to Save More Than 3 Million Gallons of Water Annually with GE Technology and Expertise
GE (NYSE: GE) is honoring Cogentrix Energy, LLC today with a GE ecomagination Leadership Award for achievements in water reuse. Cogentrix’s 120-megawatt power plant in Battleboro, N.C. has implemented a solution to conserve an estimated 3 million gallons of water [...]
Posted in water technology
| Tagged Cogentrix Energy, freshwater, GE Technology, power plant, water-saving measures
|
Record-breaker: Siemens to supply world’s most powerful 800-kV HVDC transformer to China
Following successful final acceptance tests Siemens Energy will deliver the world’s largest and most powerful 800-kilovolt converter transformer in mid-January 2010. The world-record transformer produced at the Siemens manufacturing plant in Nuremberg is destined for the Xiangjiaba-Shanghai link, a high-voltage direct-current transmission link (HVDC) [...]
Posted in News
| Tagged 800-kV HVDC transformer, converter transformer, power plant, Siemens, Siemens Energy, Siemens manufacturing plant
|
Powering the Cologne/Bonn Airport Airport plant surpasses 200 000 operating hours
The Konrad Adenauer airport in Cologne/Bonn, Germany, is powered by a combined heat and power plant (CHP) with four GE Energy Jenbacher type 616, 2 MW gas engines in operation since 1999.
On the 10th anniversary of the power plant’s installation, it was calculated that the four units [...]
Posted in Gas engines
| Tagged Bonn Airport, CHP, Cologne Airport, combined heat and power plant, engine room, Gas engines, GE Energy, GE Jenbacher Engines, power plant
|
Important new power plant supplied by Wärtsilä was inaugurated in Pakistan
Wärtsilä Corporation, Trade and Technical Press release, 7 November 2009
One 7 November 2009, the inauguration of the 200 MW Nishat Power Ltd power plant, located at Jambar Kalan, near Bhai Pheru in the District of Kasur, takes place with a ceremony at the plant site. The [...]
Posted in Diesel Engine power plant, News
| Tagged Neshat power plant, Nishat Group, power plant, supplier of the power plant, Wärtsilä
|
Alstom has signed two contracts, worth a total value of approximately 450 million euros, known as the Mannheim 9 project, to supply Grosskraftwerk Mannheim AG with new boiler and turbine units at the company’s Mannheim power plant in the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
The new unit* will have an electrical output of over 900 MW and will [...]
Posted in News
| Tagged Alstom, boiler and turbine units, Grosskraftwerk Mannheim AG, Mannheim 9 project, power plant, power plants
|
Operational Flexibility Enhancements of Combined Cycle Power Plants
Dr. Norbert Henkel, Erich Schmid and Edwin Gobrecht
Source: Siemens AG, Energy Sector
1 Abstract
High operational flexibility – the ability of a power plant for fast start-up and to adjust load output fast and predictable to changing market requirements – is an essential prerequisite to ensure economic success in a liberalized market. The [...]
Posted in CCGT power plant
| Tagged CCGT, CCPP, combined-cycle power plants, Enhancements, Operational Flexibility, power plant, power plants
|
Integrated Technologies that Enhance Power Plant Operating Flexibility
Michael McManus, David Boyce, Raymond Baumgartner,
Siemens Power Generation POWER-GEN International 2007 (Source: Siemens Energy)
Abstract
The US electric power industry has changed dramatically since the downturn of the gas-turbine-based market in the early 2000’s. In the years prior to this, nearly all combined-cycle plants were planned, permitted and built with the [...]
Posted in CCGT power plant
| Tagged Enhance Power Plant Operating Flexibility, Integrated Technologies, power plant
|
Electric Power News From CAT