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.
