Construction of First Gas-Fired Cogeneration Project in Shanxi Kicks Off in Taiyuan

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources China (Beijing, China)--Construction of the Jiajie gas-fired cogeneration project, the first gas-fired cogeneration project in Shanxi, recently was officially kicked off in Taiyuan, the capital city of central China's Shanxi province, according to the Environmental Protection Department of Shanxi province.

Leaders and representatives from project owner Taiyuan Jiajie Gas-fired Thermal Power Company Limited (Taiyuan, Shanxi), project designer Shanxi Electric Power Exploration and Design Institute (Taiyuan), equipment supplier Dongfang Electric Corporation Limited (Chengdu, Sichuan), , and the Taiyuan municipal and Shanxi provincial government departments attended the kick-off ceremony.

The Jiajie gas-fired cogeneration project, located at the west of Jiajie Village, in the Xiaodian district of Taiyuan City, will be furnished with two F-class combined-cycle units and one steam turbine-generating unit with a total installed capacity of 864 megawatts (MW) deployed in "2+1" mode. Total investment of the project will be about $460 million. The project will use the local rich coal bed methane from the Xishan Coal Field and Hedong Coal Field as its main fuel. The water source for the project will be mainly treated grey water from Chengnan sewage preparation plant and Yangjiabao sewage preparation plant in Taiyuan.

According to the schedule, the project will begin operations in 2013 and start to supply heat to an area of about 10 million square meters to the Chengnan district of Taiyuan. Upon completion, the project will be able to replace 63 smaller coal-fired boilers scattered in 38 boiler rooms, as well as 3,855 sets of boilers scattered among villages within its service area, which could save about 176,000 metric tons of standard coal, reduce the emission of 921.3 metric tons of scoot and reduce the emission of 1,594 metric tons of sulfur dioxide every year, compared with conventional coal-fired power.

As reported, Taiyuan has 154 rural villages with more than 39,700 small coal-fired boilers in its urban area, which consume about 20% of the total coal used for winter heating in the city, but emits more than 48,000 metric tons of sulfur dioxide and 63,000 metric tons of scoot, accounting for 48% and 79% of the total emissions, respectively. Construction of the project will help reduce air pollution in the city, particularly during the winter.

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