Power Industry references

Power Industry references

Power Industry references

Customers around the world have chosen Wärtsilä to meet their power generation needs. Below are a few of their stories - what their needs were, why they chose Wärtsilä, and how Wärtsilä provided these customers with the most profitable solution possible for them.

Installed Wärtsilä power plants worldwide:
Total: 36,600 MW, 4280 Projects, 8890 Units
  (2007)

AGIP Villano, Ecuador

AGIP Ecuador is the operator of the 40,000 bpd Villano oil field in the Oriente jungle in Ecuador. Since the drilling site is located in a national park, the environment at the drilling site is conserved by transporting the oil by flowlines to the Central Processing Facility site some 44 km away.

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Baden-Baden, Germany

Wärtsilä has delivered a biomass-fuelled combined heat and power plant to BioTherm Baden GmbH & Co KG, Germany. It is the first BioPower plant delivered by Wärtsilä to Germany.

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Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline (BTC)

The pumping stations are at elevations of 1600 m to 2140 m. The Wärtsilä 34SG engines, fuelled by natural gas, are used as pump drivers via a step-up gearbox.

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Gyõrhõ, Hungary

The Gyõrhõ combined heat and power (CHP) plant, which supplies power to the city of Gyõr in Hungary and heat to the city's district heating system, is an example of fast-track supply in two phases. The total plant features three Wärtsilä 18V34SG gas engines, which produce an aggregate output of 17 MWth and 18 MWe.

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IBS Ltd. (Grainger sawmill), Ireland

The plant consists of a BioPower 2 Hot Water CHP plant with a Bio Grate bio fuel combustion chamber, steam boiler and steam turbine, connections to the customer's processes as well as an extensive 400m long fuel conveyance system from the sawmills.

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Italgreen, Italy

Wärtsilä was contracted to extend a liquid biofuel-fired plant in Monopoli, on the southeast coast of Italy. The contract comprises a third Wärtsilä 18V32 diesel generating set burning vegetable oil. After the extension the plant is the largest liquid biofuel-fired plant ever built.

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Kipevu II, Kenya

Kipevu II consists of seven Wärtsilä 38 generating sets. Wärtsilä began construction immediately after financial closing in August 2000, and commercial operation was started on 4th September 2001, exactly on schedule. One of the keys to the successful Kipevu II project was fast equipment delivery from Finland and the Netherlands.

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Lextorp CHP, Sweden

Wärtsilä Biopower Oy has supplied a biomass-fired CHP power plant to Swedish municipal energy company Trollhättan Energi AB. The thermal output corresponds to 30% of Trollhättan's district heating needs.

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Manisa, Turkey

Wärtsilä Corporation was awarded a major power plant contract for an 84.8 MWe replacement and extension of an existing diesel power plant at Manisa in western Turkey. It involved the first Wärtsilä 50DF generating sets for a power plant installation, while Wärtsilä 34SG sets were added in the extension. The new plant allowed a change of fuel from heavy fuel oil to natural gas.

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OCP, Ecuador

Wärtsilä has supplied 22 centrifugal pump with drivers for four pumping stations to the OCP pipeline. Each pumping unit consists of one Wärtsilä 12V32LN crude-oil-fuelled engine. Wärtsilä also supplied two baseload power plants, each consisting of two crude-oil-fuelled Wärtsilä 6R32LN engines and one standby diesel-fuelled Wärtsilä 12V200 generating set.

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Occidental Eden Yuturi, Ecuador

Eastern Ecuador. The plant is owned and operated by Occidental Petroleum Inc. and located on Block 15 in the Ecuador Oriente

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Pavana III, Honduras

The plant layout of the Pavana III plant accommodates 16 Wärtsilä 18V46 engines in two separate engine halls joined together by the control room. Tthe plant is equipped with Wärtsilä's state-of-the-art control and monitoring systems allowing easy and safe operation from the comfort of the control room.

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Plains End, USA

The Wärtsilä peaking plant is designed as a pre-engineered, gas-fired power system allowing the users to generate their own power when electricity demand is at its highest. The Cogentrix plant is based upon 20 Wärtsilä 18V34SG natural gas engines, at 5.7 MWe per unit. This plant is permitted to operate up to 6000 hours per year.

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Plutonic, Australia

When a gold mine is situated in an Australian desert where temperatures can reach 51 °C nothing is ever easy. In this extreme heat, every process at the mine must be carefully planned to obtain the desired results. This is the case with the Plutonic gold mine some 940 kilometres north-east of Perth.

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Renko sawmill, Finland

Finnforest Renko sawmill's power plant has one wood fired power plant unit and one oil fired reserve unit installed in the same building: BioPower 2 HW and Oil&Gas 5, both standardized products developed and built by Wärtsilä Biopower Oy.

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Renogen, Belgium

Wärtsilä supplied a BioPower 5 CEX plant which burns wood residues from the local forestry industry. In addition Wärtsilä supplied a 12 MWth oil-fuelled boiler. The Amel plant delivers hot water to two local factories, while the electricity generated is fed to the main grid.

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Ringkøbing, Denmark

The Wärtsilä 20V34SG generating set is situated in the Rindum plant. Weighing 130 tonnes, it has a net output of 8 MWe and 9.6 MWth. The new plant delivers heat to the town's 9000 inhabitants and electricity to the local utility company RAH.

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Sweetheart Cup, USA

The CHP system consists of two Wärtsilä 18V34SG gas engines. The system is designed to provide steam to keep wax in its liquid form during Sweetheart Cup's wax-coating process.

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Tammisaaren energia, Finland

The plant has a high autonomy because of high-grade automation system and 1500 m3 automatically feeding fuel storage with grab-crane system. The plant is operated unmanned based on periodical visits during working days and remote supervising during weekends.

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Termocabo, Brazil

In February 2002 Termocabo and Wärtsilä signed a turnkey contract for a baseload power plant with three heavy-fuel-fired Wärtsilä 18V46 engines with a net output of 48 MWe. A key factor in Termocabo's choice of Wärtsilä was the fast-track delivery.

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Tranås Energi, Sweden

Wärtsilä's patented rotating BioGrate combustion technology is especially suitable for wet biomass, such as wood residues, wood chips, bark and sawdust.The plants either produce thermal energy for district heating or for drying and other industrial processes, or they can be built as combined heat and power plants.

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Valkeakoski, Finland

The Wärtsilä CHP plant, consisting of two Wärtsilä 18V34SG engines, is now the largest power plant powered by gas engines in Finland. It has a 12 MWe capacity and produces about 60,000 MWhe of electrical energy per year.

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Vilppula sawmill, Finland

The new BioPower 5 and BioEnergy 9 plants will consume around 180 GWh annually, or roughly 60% of the total bark production, converting it into 22 GWh of electricity and 132 GWh of thermal energy.

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Western 102, USA

Wärtsilä supplied a 116 MW gas power plant for the Canadian gold mining company Barrick Goldstrike Mines Inc.'s mine project in Nevada, USA. The plant, which is Wärtsilä's largest gas power plant to date for decentralized generation, was delivered to the customer as a turnkey contract.

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Yue Yuen, P.R. of China

Currently, the Yue Yuen power plant has twelve generating sets, each providing 6.4 MWe giving a total of 76.8 MWe installed. Another three Wärtsilä 18V32 sets will be delivered by the end of 2004 to provide a further 24 MWe. When all 18 generating sets are in place the plant will be producing 124.8 MWe for the new industrial park.

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Zao Pestovo Novo sawmill, Russia

The thermal capacity of the boiler plant is 10 MW. The design pressure of the boiler is 10 bar at a temperature of 150 °C. The plant produces thermal energy for the sawmill drying kilns.

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