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April 16, 2008

A Highly Efficient Thermal power plant to be built in Germany by a consortium led by Siemens

By Nathesh


Siemens (News - Alert) is constructing a thermal power plant in Mainz, Germany, according to an Industrial Info News Alert. The cost of this plant would be $1.5 Billion and the capacity of it will be 800 MW.

Austrian Energy & Environment and Japan's IHI are also collaborating to build the plant.

The coal combustion plant can generate both heat and power for usage. In addition to the 800 MW it will also create 200 MW of heat for the households in the district and 30 MW for the region’s industries. It will be one of Europe’s modern plants and has a thermal efficiency as high as 46 percent and a fuel efficiency of 60 percent. This high efficiency actually will help or prompt the other plants in the region opt for reduced emissions and effective technology, according to Olaf Thurn, the project manager at the KMW power plant in Mainz.

Thurn says the plant can produce cost effective and reliable power for the Mainz-Wiesbaden region.

The construction of the plant will begin in the late 2008 or early 2009 and Siemens’ part in it will be in the supply of essential components like steam turbine and generator, electrical and IC systems. It will also be in charge of planning, implementing and commissioning of the plant. The other members of the consortium Austrian Energy and Environment and Japan’s IHI will provide the tower boiler, the flue-gas desulphurization plant, and other supply and disposal systems. Other things like coal handling and ash removal systems, and principal civil structures will be afforded from customer integration process. 

Michael Süss, CEO of the Siemens Energy Division Fossil Power Generation, said that despite the very tight situation relating to planning and erection resources, and delivery bottlenecks worldwide for key components such as turbines, pumps, piping, tanks and vessels; the consortium has succeeded together with the customer in achieving an optimized division of the scopes of supply and services. Cost effectiveness and meeting dead lines in supply is possible even with the distributed risk factor among the customer and the consortium.

It is the second such coal fired plant the consortium is building in Germany. The first one is located at Lünen. The plants have in their use advanced and ultra clean technology.

Nathesh is a TMCnet Contributing Editor.

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