EVENDALE, OH - GE Industrial AeroDerivative Gas Turbines (GE-IAD) has received contracts from Thomassen Stewart & Stevenson International B.V. (TSSI) to provide two LM6000 gas turbines. The LM6000s will be used at two separate cogeneration facilities in France.
"GE's aeroderivative gas turbines have been selected for seven projects in France over the past nine months," said Andy Marque, manager, OEM sales for GE-IAD. "These compact units, which have high thermal efficiency, high fuel efficiency and high availability, are ideal for the power plants being developed during this significant growth in the country's cogeneration market."
Under the first contract with TSSI, GE-IAD will provide an LM6000 gas turbine with a standard combustion system for a cogeneration plant to be owned by Air Liquide Engineering. The LM6000 will be an addition to an existing power plant that features four steam boilers and three steam turbines. The power plant is located at the manufacturing facility owned by the nylon producer, Rhodia, in St. Fons.
The gas turbine will produce 43 megawatts of electricity and will have a guaranteed steam production of 100 tons per hour (t/hr). With water injection for emissions control, NOx levels are expected to be below 39 ppm. Power from the LM6000-based cogeneration facility will be sold to the grid of Electricite de France (EDF), the French national utility. Steam produced by the power plant will be used by Rhodia for processing.
For the second contract with TSSI, an LM6000 with GE-IAD's Dry Low Emissions (DLE) combustion system will be used at a cogeneration facility on the grounds of the Companie des Salins du Midi et des Salines de l'Est production plant in Varangeville. The 65 t/hr of steam produced will be used in a steam turbine and for a multiple effect evaporation process which will use mechanical recompression of vapor for salt production. The 43 megawatts of electricity produced will be sold to EDF. With the DLE system in place, the LM6000 is expected to achieve NOx levels of less than 25 ppm. The cogeneration plant will be owned by power plant developers and operators, COGETHERM and FINERGAZ, both of Paris.
The LM6000s for both projects will be manufactured by GE-IAD at its Evendale, OH manufacturing facility. The gas turbines will be placed into power generation packages by TSSI at its Rheden, The Netherlands facility.
Commercial operation of the LM6000 at the St. Fons site is slated for January 1999. The unit at Varangeville will begin commercial service shortly thereafter in March 1999.
TSSI, a GE-IAD Original Equipment Manufacturer, is headquartered in Rheden. TSSI has supplied 32 LM gas turbines for a variety of power generation applications.
GE-IAD is part of GE Power Systems and is headquartered in Evendale, OH. GE-IAD is the world's largest designer, developer and manufacturer of aeroderivative gas turbines for a variety of power generation and gas compression applications.