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Written by Martin Lynch, European News Editor for Industrial Info (Galway, Ireland) - German engineering firm Siemens has delivered a combined heat and power plant to the Dow Chemical Company (NYSE:DOW) (Midland, Michigan) plant in Stade, Germany.
The plant has an installed capacity of 163-megawatts (MW) supplied by three Siemens' SGT-800 industrial gas turbines and one SST-600 steam turbine which have been undergoing testing throughout the summer. The Stade Works chemical processing plant in one of the largest companies in Lower Saxony, employing over 1,500 people and supplying a wide range of plastics, resins, solvents and chemicals.
The cogeneration plant is part of a larger 'energy concept' for the Dow chemical site and is designed to provide energy security for the 16 production facilities that cover an area of about 550 hectares along the banks of the Elbe river. They produce a total range of 22 products and product families.
Siemens undertook the planning, manufacture, factory testing, delivery, installation and commissioning of the turbines. In addition to electricity, the new cogeneration unit will also supply process steam for the production processes in the chemicals complex. As part of the cogeneration site, each of the three gas turbines is connected to a downstream, supplementary fired heat recovery steam generator (HRSG), which feeds steam to the existing steam turbine as well as to the new steam turbine. The heat recovery steam generator is fuelled with natural gas and hydrogen produced in the production process.
"For Siemens, this confirms that we're offering the right products for a sustainable and economical energy supply. Our gas turbines enable electricity to be generated extremely efficiently and with low emissions", claimed Wolfgang Konrad, CEO of the Distributed Generation Business Unit at Siemens. "We are happy with the cooperation with Dow Stade and also pleased to ensure that the power plant meets high standards for performance, availability, and reliability."
Dow Chemical is also behind plans to construct a 920 MW coal-fired plant at the former location of the Stade nuclear power plant which was shut down in 2003. There have been a number of unsuccessful attempts to get a power plant at Stade up and running in recent years but with little success. A project between Dow Deutschland and EnBW was cancelled in 2008 while Germany's largest energy company E.ON (XETRA:EOAN) (Düsseldorf, Germany), cancelled its proposed 1,100 MW coal-fired project in 2012 claiming that the plant's margins would be undermined by high wind power generation in the region.
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The plant has an installed capacity of 163-megawatts (MW) supplied by three Siemens' SGT-800 industrial gas turbines and one SST-600 steam turbine which have been undergoing testing throughout the summer. The Stade Works chemical processing plant in one of the largest companies in Lower Saxony, employing over 1,500 people and supplying a wide range of plastics, resins, solvents and chemicals.
The cogeneration plant is part of a larger 'energy concept' for the Dow chemical site and is designed to provide energy security for the 16 production facilities that cover an area of about 550 hectares along the banks of the Elbe river. They produce a total range of 22 products and product families.
Siemens undertook the planning, manufacture, factory testing, delivery, installation and commissioning of the turbines. In addition to electricity, the new cogeneration unit will also supply process steam for the production processes in the chemicals complex. As part of the cogeneration site, each of the three gas turbines is connected to a downstream, supplementary fired heat recovery steam generator (HRSG), which feeds steam to the existing steam turbine as well as to the new steam turbine. The heat recovery steam generator is fuelled with natural gas and hydrogen produced in the production process.
"For Siemens, this confirms that we're offering the right products for a sustainable and economical energy supply. Our gas turbines enable electricity to be generated extremely efficiently and with low emissions", claimed Wolfgang Konrad, CEO of the Distributed Generation Business Unit at Siemens. "We are happy with the cooperation with Dow Stade and also pleased to ensure that the power plant meets high standards for performance, availability, and reliability."
Dow Chemical is also behind plans to construct a 920 MW coal-fired plant at the former location of the Stade nuclear power plant which was shut down in 2003. There have been a number of unsuccessful attempts to get a power plant at Stade up and running in recent years but with little success. A project between Dow Deutschland and EnBW was cancelled in 2008 while Germany's largest energy company E.ON (XETRA:EOAN) (Düsseldorf, Germany), cancelled its proposed 1,100 MW coal-fired project in 2012 claiming that the plant's margins would be undermined by high wind power generation in the region.
View Plant Details - 1030913
View Project Report - 300118452
Industrial Info Resources (IIR), with global headquarters in Sugar Land, Texas, three offices in North America and nine international offices, is the leading provider of global market intelligence specializing in the industrial process, heavy manufacturing and energy markets. Industrial Info's quality-assurance philosophy, the Living Forward Reporting Principle, provides up-to-the-minute intelligence on what's happening now, while constantly keeping track of future opportunities. To contact an office in your area, visit the Industrial Info "Contact Us" page.
