ABB US expanding Richmond plant to go after 60-HZ generation market
The ABB Power Generation is adding manufacturing, assembly, rebuild and service capacity to its US gas turbine production facility in Richmond, Virginia - to produce 85-MW FT11N and later, 150-MW class units for domestic and international markets. Two years ago, in April, 1990, ASEA Brown Boveri (ABB) shipped its first two industrial gas turbines out of its new US gas turbine production facility in Richmond, Virginia. The two 82-Megawatt GT11Ns, the first to be assembled in the US, are now installed at Richmond Power Enterprises' (RPE) Commerce, Virginia plant to drive a 240-MW cogeneration facility that went into operation in November of 1990. According to ABB sources, contract signing to commercial operation took less than 16 months. In operation, the gas and steam turbine generators - installed in an out-doors generating facility - supply power to Virginia Power Company on a dispatchable basis. Process steam extracted from the steam turbine is supplied to an adjacent Sonoco Paper plant, applied for paper drying and process services.
- OSTI ID:
- 5497796
- Journal Information:
- Gas Turbine World; (United States), Journal Name: Gas Turbine World; (United States) Vol. 22:2; ISSN 0361-3518; ISSN GTWODG
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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