Alstom builds cogen plant for Dubai aluminium producer

Alstom has won an order worth 125 million with Dubai
Aluminium Company Limited (DUBAL) for the full turnkey
construction of a 150 MW cogeneration* plant in Dubai, United
Arab Emirates.

Alstom will supply engineering, procurement and construction
services, along with an Alstom GT13E2 gas turbine with air
cooled turbogenerator, a heat recovery steam generator, a
distributed control system, the electrical balance of plant and
all the interconnection steam pipework for the project.

The cogeneration plant will supply electricity for aluminium
production, steam to boost electricity output at three other
existing Alstom-built power plants located at the same site,
namely Kestrel, Condor 1 and Condor 2 power plants. It will
also supply steam to boost water production at DUBALs
existing seawater desalination plant.

The project is a tailor-made industrial application, which
highlights Alstoms ability to provide integrated plant
engineering services.

The new contract reinforces Alstoms partnership with
DUBAL, following Alstoms successful construction
of  the CCPP 22 430 MW gas-fired
combined-cycle power plant also based on GT13E2 gas turbines,
in 2006, and previous contracts for the construction of
Kestrel  and Condor 1 & 2 power plants.

Philippe Joubert, Executive Vice-President and President,
Power Systems Sector, said:
DUBAL has renewed its confidence in Alstom after the
successful completion of a first 430 MW power plant. This
environmentally-friendly and fuel saving cogeneration project
is an additional significant contribution to Dubals
power supply for aluminium production. 

* Editors notes:
Cogeneration is an efficient, clean, and reliable approach to
generating power and thermal energy from a single fuel source.
It uses heat that is otherwise discarded from a conventional
power generation to produce thermal energy. This energy is used
to provide cooling or heating for industrial facilities, in
this case for desalination. By recycling this waste heat,
cogeneration systems achieve effective electrical efficiencies.
Cogenerations higher efficiencies therefore reduce air
emissions of nitrous oxides, sulphur dioxide, mercury,
particulate matter, and carbon dioxide, the leading greenhouse
gas associated with climate change.

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