Sohar Aluminum Power Plant
| Sohar Aluminum Power Plant | |||
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| Coordinates | 24 ° 28 '0 " N , 56 ° 38' 14" E | ||
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 Oman
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| Waters | Gulf of Oman (cooling with sea water) | ||
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| Type | Combined cycle power plant | ||
| Primary energy | Fossil energy | ||
| fuel | natural gas | ||
| power | 1000 MW | ||
| owner | Sohar Aluminum Company LLC (Sohal) | ||
| operator | Sohal | ||
| Project start | 2005 | ||
| Start of operations | 2009 | ||
| was standing | = | ||
The power plant Sohar Aluminum ( English Sohar Aluminum Power Plant ) is a combined cycle power plant in the province Schamal al-Batinah , Oman , the on Gulf of Oman in the port city of Sohar is located.
Data
With an installed capacity of 1 GW , Sohar Aluminum is one of the most powerful power plants in Oman (as of August 2017).
The power plant is owned and operated by Sohar Aluminum Company LLC (Sohal). Sohal is a joint venture between Oman Oil (40%), Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority (40%) and Rio Tinto Alcan (20%).
The contract was awarded to Alstom at the end of 2005; the power plant was handed over to the customer on May 22, 2009. The order value for the power plant was USD 476 million; the total cost of the aluminum plant was $ 2.4 billion. 350,000 tons of aluminum are produced annually in the aluminum smelter.
Of the 1 GW, about 650 MW go to the Sohal aluminum smelter; the rest can be fed into the public grid.
Power plant units
The power plant consists of six blocks. The following table gives an overview:
| block | Max. Power (MW) | Start of operation | turbine | generator | Steam boiler |
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| 1 | 165 | 05/22/2009 | Alstom | Alstom | Alstom |
| 2 | 165 | 05/22/2009 | Alstom | Alstom | Alstom |
| 3 | 170 | 05/22/2009 | Alstom | Alstom | |
| 4th | 165 | 05/22/2009 | Alstom | Alstom | Alstom |
| 5 | 165 | 05/22/2009 | Alstom | Alstom | Alstom |
| 6th | 170 | 05/22/2009 | Alstom | Alstom |
The waste heat from each two of the gas turbines is used in waste heat steam generators and fed to a common steam turbine . The maximum achievable efficiency is approx. 50%.
Others
The electrical energy obtained is fed via a double three-phase system (220 kV , 787 MW single) to the aluminum plant, which is about 12 km away. The first 2.5 km in the port area are laid as underground cables .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Sohar (Sohal) Aluminum CCGT Power Plant Oman. Global Energy Observatory, accessed August 13, 2017 .
- ↑ a b c d e f State-of-the art CCPP fires Oman's new aluminum smelter. Power Engineering International, October 1, 2009, accessed August 12, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Powering Production. Sohar Aluminum, accessed August 12, 2017 .