Malaysia: Manjung's Supercritical Coal-Fired Power Plant Is Southeast Asia's First

Bernama 4 Apr 11;

SINGAPORE, April 4 (Bernama) -- Alstom says the new 1,000 MW supercritical coal-fired power plant in Manjung, Perak, will be the first in Southeast Asia.

"The unit will be the single largest one in South East Asia and will produce enough electricity to power nearly two million households in Malaysia," the global leader in power generation said in a statement Monday.

Supercritical power plant operates at a higher temperature than regular coal-fired power plants.

The high temperature increases the pressure at which they operate, which in turns improves their efficiency, increasing the amount of power output and decreasing emissions per unit of fuel burned.

Alstom said the project was worth about EUR1 billion in total and the power plant contract to provide key power generation equipment was valued over EUR650 million.

Tenaga Nasional Bhd's wholly-owned subsidiary, TNB Janamanjung Sdn Bhd, has awarded the turnkey engineering, procurement and construction contract to Alstom and its consortium partner, China Machinery Import and Export Corporation.

Under the terms of the contract, Alstom will engineer, procure, construct and commission a 1000 MW steam turbine, a generator, a supercritical boiler and auxiliaries.

Alstom will also supply and install its latest ALSPA� Series 6 Distributed Control System, and environmental control systems to cut emissions.

"The plant is expected to come online in 2015, providing an extra 1000 MW of power to the Malaysian grid," it said.

-- BERNAMA