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24 October 2007 - Wärtsilä Corporation has been awarded a €31.5m ($45m) turnkey power plant contract to supply a power plant for a new cement works in Al Katrana, Jordan. The 49 MW plant will be delivered at the end of 2009.
The customer is Al Katrana Cement Company, and the scope of the new contract encompasses design, engineering, supply, erection and commissioning of the diesel generating plant.
The new cement work, which is due to be completed by mid 2009, is being built on a green-field site in Al Katrana, about 90 km south of Amman. The cement works will have a production capacity of 5000 tonnes/day.
Wärtsilä will supply seven 18V32 diesel generating sets and their related ancillaries, including coolers, filters, fuel oil pumps, lubricating oil pumps, cooling water pumps, and engine control and monitoring equipment. The engines will each provide a maximum continuous output of 8100 kW at 720 rpm at local ambient temperatures.
The deal also includes the supply of an exhaust heat recovery system for fuel heating. There will be four exhaust gas economizers, so that two can be in operation with two on standby.
The power plant will be dedicated to providing electrical power for the cement works. It will normally operate with five engines running to meet the baseload requirements of the cement works, with a sixth generating set on hot standby and a seventh under maintenance thereby giving increased availability and flexibility.
The engines will run on heavy fuel oil (HFO), but will use light fuel oil (LFO) when starting and during emergency operations.
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