Saudia Arabia installs first combined cycle at Rabigh
The first combined cycle in Saudi Arabia is designed specifically to run on treated crude oil as a base load unit during the summer air conditioning and pilgrimage peaks. It required special measures to avoid soot deposition and dew point corrosion in the heat recovery boilers. The combined cycle power station at Rabigh, 160 km north of Jeddah on the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia, was developed from a simple cycle gas turbine plant over a period of five years and is as yet the only plant of its type in operation in the kingdom. The plant consists of two blocks, each with four ABB Type GT11D5 gas turbines, with the heat recovery boilers by Cockerill Mechanical Industries (CMI) feeding a common header supplying a 133-MW steam turbine. The fuel is a high-sulfur crude oil from the fields on the Gulf coast, which is brought to the site by tanker. There is 256,000 m[sup 3] of fuel storage on site for the two blocks. Output is guaranteed to be 656 MW at 50[degree]C and 35[degree]C cooling water temperature. 5 figs.
- OSTI ID:
- 6910338
- Journal Information:
- Turbomachinery International; (United States), Journal Name: Turbomachinery International; (United States) Vol. 35:6; ISSN 0149-4147; ISSN TUINDP
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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