Futtsu power station
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| Coordinates | 35 ° 20 '32 " N , 139 ° 49' 55" E | ||
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| Waters | Uraga Canal (cooling with sea water) | ||
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| Type | Thermal power plant | ||
| Primary energy | Fossil energy | ||
| fuel | Liquefied natural gas (LNG) | ||
| power | 5,040 MW | ||
| owner | Tepco | ||
| operator | Tepco | ||
| Start of operations | 1986 | ||
The Futtsu Power Plant ( Japanese 富 津 火力 発 電 所 , Futtsu karyoku hatsudensho ) is a gas-fired power plant in Japan , which is located on the Uraga Canal in Futtsu ( Chiba Prefecture ). With an installed capacity of 5,040 MW , it is the most powerful power plant in Japan that uses fossil fuels. It is used to cover base and medium loads . The owner and operator is the company Tepco .
Power plant units
The power plant consists of a total of four blocks with different capacities that went into operation from 1985 to 2010. The following table gives an overview:
| block | Max. Power (MW) | Start of operation | turbine | generator | Steam boiler |
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| 1 | 1,000 | 12.1985 | General Electric (GE) | GE | GE |
| 2 | 1,000 | 12.1987 | GE | GE | GE |
| 3 | 1,520 | 07.2001 | GE | GE | Toshiba |
| 4th | 1,520 | 07.2008 | GE | GE | GE |
Block 1 comprises 7 combined cycle plants , each of which consists of a gas turbine with 113 MW output and a steam turbine with 52 MW output on a single shaft . The operating temperature is 1,100 ° C. The thermal efficiency is 47%. The systems went into operation from December 1985 to November 1986.
Unit 2 also consists of 7 combined cycle plants (gas turbine with 113 MW and steam turbine with 52 MW power on one shaft). The thermal efficiency is also 47%. The systems went into operation from December 1987 to November 1988.
Unit 3 comprises 4 combined cycle plants (type GE 109FA + e ), each of which consists of a gas turbine with 249 MW output and a steam turbine with 131 MW output on one shaft. The operating temperature is 1,280 ° C or 1,300 ° C. The thermal efficiency is 53 (or 55.3)%. The systems went into operation between July 2001 and November 2003.
Unit 4 comprises 3 combined cycle plants (type GE 109H ), each of which consists of a gas turbine with 336 MW output and a steam turbine with 171 MW output. The systems went into operation between July 2008 and October 2010. The thermal efficiency is 58.6%. The system works at a temperature of 1,430 ° C.
fuel
All units in the power plant use liquefied natural gas (LNG) as fuel. The LNG is transported through a pipeline from the nearby Futtsu LNG Terminal to the power plant. The terminal can handle 9 (or 19.95 according to the LNGmarket ) million t of LNG per year and its storage capacity is a total of 1.26 million kl . Tepco intends to build two more storage tanks with 125,000 m³ storage capacity each by 2017 in order to be able to use natural gas with a lower energy content in the future.
Since October 2005, the Futtsu LNG Terminal has been connected to the Higashi-Ogishima Terminal on the other side of Tokyo Bay by a tunnel under the seabed - the 20 km long Trans-Bay Gas Pipeline . The laying of the gas pipeline in the tunnel was planned by March 2009. The tunnel is up to 70 m below the water level. The pipeline is part of a system of lines connecting Tepco's five gas-fired power plants in Chiba Prefecture to the three gas-fired power plants in Kanagawa Prefecture .
Others
According to Power Technology , Futtsu ranks second among the most powerful natural gas powered power plants. According to this source, Futtsu ranks 12th among the most powerful power plants in the world (however 6,105 MW are given as output).
Tepco offers tours of the power plant on working days.
Remarks
- ↑ The date given relates to the start of operation of the first CCGT plant in the block.
- ↑ a b The indication of 1,000 MW of power for the entire unit, which is in the sources, does not correspond to the sum of the power of the individual gas and steam turbines: 7 × 165 MW = 1,155 MW.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Principal Thermal Power Plants (1,000MW or greater). The Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan, accessed September 14, 2014 .
- ^ Major Power Plants. (PDF 193 KB p. 1) The Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan, March 31, 2013, accessed on September 14, 2014 .
- ↑ a b c d e f Futtsu CCGT Power Plant Japan. Global Energy Observatory, accessed October 20, 2014 .
- ↑ a b c d e 東 火力 事業 所 設備 概要. Tepco, accessed October 4, 2014 (jp).
- ↑ a b c d e Futtsu Combined-Cycle Plant, Yokohama, Japan. Power Technology, accessed October 20, 2014 .
- ↑ a b c Gas-fired - the five biggest natural gas power plants in the world. Power Technology, April 15, 2014, accessed September 13, 2014 .
- ^ First Of Three GE 9H Gas Turbines Being Installed For Futtsu Project In Japan. (No longer available online.) Energybiz.com, October 11, 2006, archived from the original on October 31, 2014 ; accessed on October 20, 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.
- ^ Futtsu LNG Terminal (Futtsu). lngmarket.com, accessed October 20, 2014 .
- ↑ Futtsu LNG Terminal. A Barrel Full, accessed October 14, 2014 .
- ↑ Chou Hui Hong: Tepco Allocates 40 Billion Yen to Switch Terminals to Lean LNG. Bloomberg , February 8, 2013, accessed October 20, 2014 .
- ↑ a b Tunneling completed on TEPCO Trans-Bay Gas Pipeline - Linking of shield tunnel under central Tokyo Bay next step towards completion of gas network -. Tepco, October 20, 2005, accessed October 20, 2014 .
- ^ Outline of Trans-Bay Gas Pipeline Project. (PDF 34.2 KB) Tepco, accessed on October 20, 2014 (English).
- ↑ The Top 100 - World's Largest Power Plants. (No longer available online.) Power Plants Around the World, archived from the original on October 6, 2012 ; accessed on October 4, 2014 . 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.
- ^ Tokyo Electric Power Co., Ltd. East Japan Thermal Power Plant (TEPCO), Futtsu Thermal Power Generating Plant. (No longer available online.) Chiba Prefecture commerce and industry Labor Division sightseeing section, archived from the original on December 2, 2013 ; accessed on October 20, 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.
