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25 September 2007 - Alstom has contracted with International Power (Technologies) Pty Limited for the design, engineering and implementation of a demonstration plant at their Hazelwood Power Station, which will showcase technologies which are able to dramatically reduce the plant's CO2 intensity.
The scope of the project includes the demonstration of a new lignite drying technology, developed by Alstom in association with RWE of Germany that will reduce the brown coal from over 60 per cent moisture to 12 per cent.
Consequently, modification of the boiler will be implemented to demonstrate the combustion of the dried fuel. To further improve the plant's efficiency and to reduce CO2 intensity, feedheating plant augmentation and steam turbine retrofits are also included in the project.
Hazelwood consists of 8x200MW generating units. The retrofit to one of the units is intended to reduce the CO2 emissions intensity of that unit by 20 per cent, increase the generation of electrical output by 10 per cent and extend the life of the plant to 2030.
The Hazelwood 2030 project has received strong governmental support with a $50m grant awarded by the Federal Government under the Low Emissions Technology Development Fund (LETDF) and an additional $30 million grant by the Victorian State Government as part of their Energy Technology Innovation Strategy (ETIS).
When complete, the project will avoid approximately 500 000 tonnes of CO2 emissions being released into the atmosphere per year from Hazelwood.
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