October 07, 2008

Emirates Aluminum awards power island contract to GE

Emirates Aluminium Company Limited has announced that it has awarded AED 1.8 billion power island contract to General Electrical International Operations Company Inc. The power plant will be a natural gas fired combined cycle plant with supplemental duct firing and dual fuel operations.

This contract includes the following equipment
1. Six 9FA GE combustion turbine generators
2. Four bypass stacks for simple cycle operations
3. Four heat recovery steam generators with exhaust stacks
4. Two steam turbine generators
5. Two sea water cooling surface condensers

The project is scheduled to start receiving GE equipment in December 2008, ending with the last equipment deliveries in July of 2009. The first phase of the project is scheduled to be complete in 2010.

The Emirates Aluminum Company Limited smelter project consists of a 700,000 tonnes per year aluminium plant with a supporting 2,000 MW power plant. When both phases of the Emirates Aluminum Company Limited smelter plant are completed the plant will be the largest for aluminum production in the world.