The EPC contractor Toshiba Plant Systems & Services Corporation will install GE’s 9E gas turbine including a 9A5 generator and associated equipment at JFE’s new combined-cycle power plant.
The multiple fuel plant will use the blast furnace and coke oven gases of the steel mill, which annually produces about 8 million tons of crude steel, and generates on-site power to meet the mill’s captive requirements.
GE Energy Thermal Products president and CEO Paul Browning said, "As one of the world’s leading supplier of gas turbines, we are excited to demonstrate how our heavy duty turbines have the operational flexibility to help JFE and other steel producers effectively deal with their gases that have fluctuating thermal qualities."
The company claims that its Frame 9E gas turbine can operate on a broad spectrum of fuels including natural gas, light and heavy distillate oil, naphtha, crude, residual oil, blast furnace gas and biofuels and syngases produced from oil or coal.
GE plans to commence deliveries of the equipment from December 2013 and the power plant is slated to be in service by June 2015.
