Chita power plant

Chita power plant
location
Japan
Coordinates	34 ° 59 '12 "  N , 136 ° 50' 38"  E Coordinates: 34 ° 59 '12 "  N , 136 ° 50' 38"  E
country	Japan
Waters	Ise Bay (cooling with sea water)
Data
Type	Thermal power plant
Primary energy	Fossil energy
fuel	LNG , secondary heavy fuel
power	3,966 MW
owner	Chubu Electric Power Co.
operator	Chubu Electric Power Co.
Start of operations	1966

The Chita power plant ( Japanese 知 多 火力 発 電 所 , Chita karyoku hatsudensho ) is a gas-fired power plant in Japan , which is located on the east side of the Ise Bay on an embankment in Chita in Aichi Prefecture . With an installed capacity of 3,966  MW , it ranks third among the most powerful power plants of the electricity supplier Chūbu Denryoku after the Kawagoe and Hekinan power plants . It is used to cover medium and peak loads .

On November 5, 2002, the Chita power plant reached a total of 500 billion kWh produced since the first unit went into operation on February 11, 1966. It was the first Chūbu power plant to achieve this mark.

Power plant units

The power plant consists of a total of six units with different capacities that went into operation from 1966 to 1978. The blocks 1, 2, 5 and 6 was a 1992-1996 repowering performed by additional gas turbines are installed, whose waste heat is used for steam turbine of the respective block. The following table gives an overview:

block	machine	Max. Power (MW)	Start of operation	turbine	generator	Steam boiler	Type
1	1	375	02/11/1966	Toshiba			Steam turbine (DT)
	2	154	08.1996	MHI		MHI	Gas turbine (GT)
2	1	375	1967	Toshiba			DT
	2	154	08.1995	MHI		MHI	GT
3		500	1968				DT
4th		700	1974				DT
5	1	700	05.1978	Toshiba			DT
	2	154	06.1995	Hitachi		Hitachi	GT
6th	1	700	04.1978	Toshiba			DT
	2	154	09.1994	Hitachi		Hitachi	GT

The steam turbines in Units 5 and 6 were the first Chūbu-operated turbines to use liquefied natural gas (LNG) -fired steam boilers. By 1985, the other units, which were originally designed to be fired with oil, were also converted to firing with LNG.

fuel

All units in the power plant use LNG as fuel. The Chita power plant therefore has its own terminal for LNG tankers , which is operated jointly with Toho Gas . With 6.5 million t of LNG delivered in 2004, it is one of the largest LNG terminals in Japan. Around 110 LNG tankers were required to transport this amount. The amount of LNG delivered annually rose to 8.6 million t in the 2010 financial year (this corresponds to approx. 140 tankers). In 2010 the Mozah docked in Chita, a tanker of the Nakilat Q-Max class that had loaded 260,000 m³ (approx. 117,000 t) of LNG.

On July 13, 2002, the mark of 100 million t of LNG was reached, which was delivered to the Chita LNG terminal, since the first LNG tanker docked in Chita in September 1977. During this period 1,779 ships were handled. On November 21, 2011, the 3,000th tanker was received in Chita.

There are other Chubu power plants around Ise Bay that use LNG as fuel. The Chita LNG terminal has therefore been connected to the Kawagoe power plant via two pipelines (in a 13.3 km long tunnel under the seabed) since September 2013 in order to increase security of supply. Kawagoe, in turn, is connected to the Yokkaichi power station via another tunnel .

Others

According to Power Technology , the Chita power plant ranks fifth among the most powerful natural gas powered power plants. According to the website industcards , Chita ranks 78th among the most powerful power plants in the world.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Principal Thermal Power Plants (1,000MW or greater). The Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan, accessed September 14, 2014 .  
2. ^ Major Power Plants. (PDF 193 kB p. 1) The Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan, March 31, 2013, accessed on September 14, 2014 (English).  
3. ↑ ^{a b} Chita Power Plant Japan. Global Energy Observatory, accessed September 21, 2014 .  
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Cumulative electricity generation at the Chita Thermal Power Plant since the start of its operation reaches 500 billion kWh. Chubu Electric Power Co., November 6, 2002, accessed September 22, 2014 .  
5. ↑ chuden.co.jp
6. ^ Takao Koike, Yoshiki Noguchi: Repowering of Thermal Power Plants as Fully-Fired Combined Cycle Generating Plants. (PDF 565 kB pp. 10, 12) (No longer available online.) Chubu Electric Power Co., HITACHI, Ltd., archived from the original on October 6, 2014 ; accessed on September 21, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Chita LNG Terminal Received A Total 2,000 LNG Tankers. Chubu Electric Power Co., June 7, 2004, accessed September 22, 2014 .  
8. ↑ ^{a b} Chita LNG Terminal Received a Total 3,000 LNG Tankers. Chubu Electric Power Co., November 21, 2011, accessed September 22, 2014 .  
9. ^ First port call in Japan by "Q-Max" Vessel, World's Largest LNG Tanker Class. Chubu Electric Power Co., July 13, 2010, accessed September 22, 2014 .  
10. ↑ Cumulative Total for LNG Unloaded at Chita LNG Terminal Reaches 100 Million Tons. Chubu Electric Power Co., July 15, 2002, accessed September 22, 2014 .  
11. ↑ Keiichi YONEYAMA: Actual situation of LNG use at Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc. (PDF 1.1 MB p. 8 and p. 14) Chubu Electric Power Co., March 21, 2010, accessed on September 14, 2014 ( English).  
12. ^ Completion of Joint Facilities Construction for the Trans-Ise Bay Gas Pipeline. Chubu Electric Power Co., September 20, 2013, accessed September 22, 2014 .  
13. ^ Gas-fired - the five biggest natural gas power plants in the world. Power Technology, April 15, 2014, accessed September 21, 2014 .  
14. ↑ The Top 100 - World's Largest Power Plants. (No longer available online.) Power Plants Around the World, archived from the original on July 18, 2009 ; accessed on September 21, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.