Power engineering solutions provider GE Energy has announced that two Spanish steel factories are successfully using its Jenbacher specialty gas engines with waste gases from the facilities' production processes as feedstock and thereby reducing use of fossil fuels.
In the northern Spanish town of Bilbao, a coke-oven gas plant installed at a factory operated by Productos de Fundicion (Profusa) recently achieved one million operating hours.
Profusa’s waste gas-to-energy plant, which features a dozen of GE’s Jenbacher JGS 316 GS-S/N-L generator sets, produces an estimated average of about 6MW of electricity in total, depending on the fuel composition.
A second plant, at the Arcelor Mittal steel factory in Aviles, northern Spain, has successfully reached the 20,000 operating hours mark for all gas units involved.
Installed in 2004, a dozen of GE’s Jenbacher JMS 620 GS-S/N-LC engines are reportedly powering a cogeneration system that utilizes a different type of steel production processes’ waste gas called LD-converter gas.